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Lets Go Canada!

February 22, 2010

Ok, so it’s not an Olympic poster, it sums up the sentiment.

I grabbed this shot while tour­ing the museum dis­play area at the Cit­adel over­look­ing Que­bec city and the Plains of Abra­ham this past summer.

Tagged as: Canada, Lets Go Canada, Olympics, Poster, WWII

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Blogging at 31312 ft.

December 23, 2009
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As I write wrote this I’m was cruis­ing along at 485 mph, just over 30,000 ft. Over the Rock­ies.
This vista was shot with my digital cam­era, and wire­lessly uploaded to my flickr account.

The tech that let’s me post this (delayed, as my air­line doesn’t have in-flight wi-fi yet) is pretty com­mon­place these days — but […]

Tagged as: Canada, flying, Images, Lifestyle Technology, Mountains, photos, Tech, Video

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Winter Hoodoos

December 9, 2009

The big snowstorm that hit Edmon­ton on Decem­ber 4th and 5th was accom­pan­ied by rather high winds, which depos­ited and sculp­ted the snow­drifts in my yard. Inter­est­ing shapes resulted.

Tagged as: Alberta, Canada, Edmonton, Image, Photography, Snow, weather

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Small steps, small cups

October 15, 2009
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Since this is Blog Action Day, I thought I’d take a look at how I per­ceive my morn­ing routine is impact­ing cli­mate change — no real hard sci­ence here, but just my ped­es­trian per­spect­ive on  my poten­tial impact on the planet.My think­ing may be wrong-headed in places (please let me know) but this post is […]

Tagged as: Alberta, Blog Action Day, Canada, Climate Change, coffee, consumer, Edmonton, K-Cup, Lifestyle Technology, One Cup, Recycling

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It was a dark and stormy morning

October 14, 2009
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It’s been said that the best cam­era is the one you have with you — heck it’s even the title of a book on iPhone pho­to­graphy.
Which makes sense, because you can eas­ily stumble across a nifty scene, as I did here, and not be able to cap­ture it if you don’t have a camera […]

Tagged as: Adobe, Alberta, B&W, camera, Canada, Edmonton, Lifestyle Technology, Lightroom, Photography, Photoshop

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No reason NOT to get a new computer this year.

January 29, 2009

Only in Canada ‘eh? Pity!
The recently announced Cana­dian Budget seems to have a dir­ect boon to me. I wasn’t expect­ing it. I was expect­ing more of the same gen­eral eco­nomic stim­u­lus pack­ages, etc. But here’s some­thing that applies to me directly.

Tem­por­ary 100-Per-Cent Cap­ital Cost Allow­ance Rate for Com­puters
In light of the eco­nomic slow­down, Budget 2009 pro­poses a […]

Tagged as: budget 2009, Business, Canada, computer, consumer, Economy, income, income tax, tax

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