postaday2011
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I love National Geographic. They cover a huge range of topics and now and then, they just make me smile. Today was a good example of that. I recently liked Nat Geo on Facebook, and now get status updates from them. So far, so cool. An update from Tuesday ran as follows: “Hailing from China’s…
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Anyone who reads my blog, or Canadian business news, or shops there already knows that Blockbuster Canada is closing. I’ve done a couple of posts already about losing my job, and the misrepresentation in the press etc. This isn’t going to be one of those posts. This one is going to be a bit more…
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For those who don’t know, don’t care, or aren’t from around here, we’re heading into a Provincial election here in Ontario. For those in the US, that’s the State level. For the rest of the world, it’s important to us, but likely most of the world won’t be greatly impacted by it. Locally though, it’s…
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Here’s how the scenario unfolds. The police follow a suspect in an active investigation. They observe him go into the woods. Fifty minutes later, he emerges, and drives away. The officers enter the woods and observe an area where the pine needles and soil appear disturbed. The following day, a forensic team returns and unearths…
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I don’t play a lot of online games. It’s a combination of not being competitive enough and not being willing to make the commitment to my fellow gamers. GuildWars was the exception to that. There were a couple of things I liked right from the get-go. There are no monthly subscription fees. You buy the…
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Christina Blizzard, writing in the Ottawa Sun is slamming David Suzuki and Dalton McGuinty. One for being a “pompous ass”, and the other being praised by a pompous ass for wanting to build wind turbines where the wind blows. Before I go any farther, I want to make it clear that this is not to…
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As I mentioned yesterday, I really like Portal 2. I enjoy gaming, watching movies and reading. The commonality? They all take me out of reality for a while. Not that my reality is even sightly terrible. In fact, it’s pretty darned awesome. I’ve got a wonderful wife, a great daughter, and the world’s best dog. …
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After months of having everyone tell me how incredible Portal 2 is, I’ve finally started playing it. So far, I’ve got to say, it looks like they’re right. More to the point, it sounds like they’re right. The game play is exactly what I expected. The controls are smooth, precise and easy. The puzzles are…
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I watched a TED.com talk by Neil Pasricha last night and it started me thinking. He talked about going through a very dark time in his life. His marriage ended and a close friend took his own life after a long struggle with mental illness. As part of the process of moving himself out of…
Brain Bits To Go 