In Edmon­ton the last week or so has been unseason­ably warm. A friend of mine today declared on Twit­ter that he went to work pants-less (one assumes he wore shorts). I’m start­ing to wait­ing for the rest of the snow to leave the back yard, and my dogs are get­ting rest­less. Which means that when spring finally does get here, any time I have for inside technology-related tasks has just, like the snow, evap­or­ated. …more



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This week I star­ted using Gowalla — a check-in application/game for mobile devices sim­ilar to Foursquare, which means noth­ing if you’ve not used FourSquare either…so let me explain. …more



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This is the week that was

March 14, 2010

Looks like some iPad com­pet­it­ors are start­ing to get some atten­tion, so we’ll give them some too… …more

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Spring’s on its way. Backup now — before you’re too busy.

March 12, 2010
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I’ve writ­ten a lot about back­ing up your data over the years. But even though backups are import­ant, some­how they’re always 2nd or 3rd on the pri­or­ity list. ‘Some­thing to do when I get time’. And as Spring approaches, time is one thing that there’s going to be less of as pri­or­it­ies shift from inside […]

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Finally. If it’s Friday then it’s time for a video.

March 12, 2010
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Earlier this week OK Go par­ted ways with their record label in order to have more cre­at­ive and pub­lish­ing con­trol over their music videos. Short ver­sion — EMI was not let­ting their videos be pub­lished through You­Tube. Longer ver­sion and over­view at Fast­Com­pany.
Since that rela­tion­ship has ended, the fol­low­ing link to the You­Tube video of […]

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How to keep your travel communications costs down, easily.

March 9, 2010

Whether you’re on vaca­tion or trav­el­ling for work, tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions costs are a pain, and can really impact your the cost of your travel. Recently I’ve star­ted using two tools that let me call home or the office, talk as long as I want, and not break the bank. …more

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