Technology
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A Case For Mars A rocketship out to the stars, Starts with a shorter trip. A trip to Mars to learn and build, A bigger, better ship. To get to Mars we’ve much to learn, To get there and survive. To build the things we need to live, And more, succeed and thrive. For Mars…
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We Are Cyberspace A billion things, a billion more, And still there’s more to see. It’s anything to anyone, the internet to me. There’s superstars, there’s nobodies, The famous and unknown. It doesn’t matter who you are, You’ll never be alone, There’s legal things, illegal things, Some things are in between. There’s beauty there and…
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While I was at Comiccon, I had the opportunity to meet one of the Canadian candidates for the private sector mission to Mars. Talking him inspired this…. The Next Martians A flaming pillar reaches up, Another group has gone, To meet the ship that they will take, To push our species on. They go to…
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I work in a cell phone store so I often hear about new tech is destroying people’s ability to communicate. This always makes me a little crazy. You see I grew up without even a phone. Trust me, I know a thing or two about living in a simpler time. It’s Fear The Future A…
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So last month I got myself a new laptop. Nothing crazy, but a very nice mid-range AMD quad-core. It came with Windows 7 pre-installed. It also came with a voucher to get $25 off Windows 8. So I said what the heck, why not. Now I’m just waiting for the install to complete. So far…
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Like many other people, my daughter and I both have cell phones. The idea is for us to be able to quickly and easily talk wherever, whenever. The reality is quite different… sort of. Earlier today my wife and I were (as usual) trying to decide what to have for supper. As a deciding factor,…
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Greetings from the land of poor but quick writing. One of the key pieces of advice for this process is don’t edit as you write. Just get the words down on the page and worry about everything else later. That’s why I specify poor writing. turns out it’s not too hard to write badly. Writing…
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In a recent article in Macleans, Jesse Brown was talking about the new Aakash tablet which is being made in India. It’s not here yet, but it’s likely coming soon. The first thing to know about it, is that it’s a bottom end tablet. The processor is slow. The networking is substandard and there’s no…
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Actually, there are more than two, but I don’t feel like writing a twenty-thousand word essay tonight. So I’ll limit this to just a couple, or so. First up of course is the idea of spending BILLIONS of dollars on new fighter aircraft. I’m going to assume that’s because we live in an unstable part…
Brain Bits To Go 