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Category: In the life

  • Alberta Winter on the Desktop

    Happy New Year. I’ve been hav­ing more fun with Pho­toshop and with my new Wacom Bam­boo draw­ing tab­let, and decided to share the fruits of my labour. Here’s a new 1280 x 865 win­tery-themed image, taken one frosty morn­ing out on the trail near the Waska­hegan trail at the Cook­ing Lake-Black­foot Recre­ation Area, just east…

  • Earthrise on the desktop — an Apollo 8 image

    Today I was feel­ing the need to update my desktop, and decided to look around for a 1280×1024 ver­sion of Earth­rise. I could­n’t quickly find one…so I did the next best thing, grabbed this 2400×2400 ver­sion from NASA and cropped it. Feel free to grab my (1024×768) ver­sion here. ** Update Feb 17, 2008 ** Since I’ve…

  • Linklist — July 27, 2007

    Add these to your web devel­op­ment toolkit — Two Tools for Pol­ish­ing Your Web Pages Con­sid­er­ing the busi­ness uses of Twit­ter? — A white paper by Jim Horton PC World’s July Anti-vir­us soft­ware roundup: Anti-vir­us soft­ware: Grisoft AVG 7.5 Anti-Vir­us Pro­fes­sion­al Edi­tion7/16/2007 The least-expens­ive pro­gram we tested, AVG has aver­age over­all mal­ware detec­tion, the worst pro­act­ive…

  • Linklist — July 26, 2007

    Not your dad’s Ray­Bans — The Aloha Exper­i­ence — a cus­tom­er ser­vice depart­ment that ‘gets it’. It’s Law. it’slaw. — slaw On loy­alty and employ­ment — Your Employ­er Owes You Nothing Seth on the next niche for work­ers — Com­munity Organ­izer Jobs Word­Press geekout alert — Word­Press: Dynam­ic Sub-Page Navigation Prac­tising safe blog­ging at work —…

  • One year of OpenDNS

    Yep, the free ser­vice that I use to replace my ISPs DNS has turned one. It’s been quite a year of growth, and I star­ted using OpenDNS back in March, but for me, it’s been pretty smooth. The coolest fea­tures that I use are short­cuts and spelling cor­rec­tion. If I type want to vis­it this…

  • Is the iPhone right for you?

    Walt Moss­berg (Wall Street Journ­al tech guy) has a video review that may help:   Inter­est­ing item, but it’s still too pricey for me.

  • Why get an iPhone when your Windows Mobile can be just as swank?

    Life­hack­er has this cool art­icle show­ing you how to pimp your Win Mobile to be all iPhoney. …you can cus­tom­ize your Win­dows Mobile phone to emu­late sev­er­al of the iPhone’s more inter­est­ing fea­tures, like the iPhone’s home screen, flick-scroll con­tacts, and the fancy slide-to-unlock. You’ll need an applic­a­tion — avail­able here, and some free time…

  • 5 reasons I won’t get an iPhone

    Cost. If the iPhone’s lis­ted prices were con­ver­ted to Cana­dian dol­lars, the iPhone would price out between $530 and $640 CAD. That’s way too much money for me to spend on a phone today. Yes it has oth­er func­tion­al­ity, but I’ve got that covered; keep reading. Con­tract & add ons. In the US there’s a…

  • Edmonton to be blessed by his Toddness!

    Heh, sorry, could­n’t res­ist. Todd Maffin is vis­it­ing my fair city and look­ing to hook up with some tech­ies for his live, weekly, on-line TV show: My live weekly web-TV show, todbits.TV, is going on the road! This Fri­day, I’ll be broad­cast­ing live from down­town Edmon­ton at the Fair­mont Hotel MacDonald. And I’m invit­ing any­one in…

  • iPhone super-detailed details leak

    The iPhone is due to launch on June 29th, and some folks are doing any­thing and everything to feed the hype. Looks like the Sales Train­ing Work­book has leaked. Tech­nor­ati Tags: iPhone, Leak, Apple, News, Inform­a­tion, Manu­al

  • How Canadians save money when buying books through Amazon.com

    If you’ve ever noticed the pri­cing on the back of a paper­back avail­able in Canada, you’ll notice that there are two prices lis­ted; US and Canadian. With the cur­rent exchange rate (1.064 USD -> CAD) I thought I’d run a quick ana­lys­is on pur­chas­ing four books from Amazon.ca and Amazon.com, and see which would be…

  • My ‘I might be crazy’ goal: wake up at 5:00

    I’d read this cool post on the 10 Bene­fits of Rising Early, and How to Do It, and, after care­fully review­ing the sec­tion on how to do it, thought I’d give it a chance. Don’t make drastic changes. Start slowly, by wak­ing just 15–30 minutes earli­er than usu­al. Get used to this for a few days.…