Tag: Canada
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Checking out library books on your eReader?
Got a Sony eReader and use the Sony Reader store? Well check out the little blue & white box in the right-hand sidebar on the page. Yep, you read correctly -- you can check out books from the library and read them on your eReader.
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I read the news today (oh boy)
If you’ve been without power and not heard the news today, The Beatles music library is now available from Apple’s iTunes store for download. Joy. No, I’m not overly enthused by this, as I already own digital copies of all the Beatles music that I’m interested in. I bought them on CD years ago, and…
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Lets Go Canada!
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.
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Winter Hoodoos
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.
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Small steps, small cups
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…
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It was a dark and stormy morning
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…
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No reason NOT to get a new computer this year.
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…
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Light streaks in heavy ice fog on a very cold winter night
After a great Friday evening with our good friends, we returned home to find this incredible ice fog over the city. The fog caught the über-bright lights from a local RV dealership, creating this rather nifty lighting effect.
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Two resources for planning your lunar photography evening
A friend pointed me to this BBC article about tonight’s full moon. It seems that tonight’s full moon event will occur when the Moon is the closest it’s been to the earth (during a full moon) in 15 years. Well, methinks. A perfect time to get out the photography and telescopy equipment and capture this event. But…