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Merry Christmas! This morning the folks over at “1000 Awesome Things” have a post about the kid’s table. Our family dinners always had one down the end of the main dining room table where all the children would sit and slowly eat Turkey dinner. Some of the fondest memories I have about Christmas dinner were [...]

So here’s the deal on Microsoft Word being yanked from shelves by January 11, 2010. i4i, a database company back east that developed the first XML plugin for Microsoft Word claimed that Microsoft infringed upon their patent(s) regarding how XML is used and parsed in Office Documents, specifically Word (.doc) documents. i4i actually updated the [...]

It was a sad day today as we had our last lunch at the Wildwood pub here in Calgary. Most of the beer tuns had been drained and only a few pilsners, dark ales and sour cherry porters remained for us to partake in. After speaking with Brewmaster Brian Smith, he mentioned that the lease [...]

John Mayer posted three videos on YouTube during the writing of his new album “Battle Studies”. I thought I’d post them here as they’re pretty funny, insightful and just plain good. Enjoy! Part I: Part II: Part III:

Nowadays when you ask someone to define “Social Networking” it usually brings out a string of words like “Twitter”, “Facebook”, “MySpace”, “YouTube” and the list goes on. To me social networking doesn’t happen when you’re sitting at a desk behind a computer or on the train with your cell-phone. This happens when you’re out – [...]

Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter is launching a new venture this week called “Square”. The business model is quite simple in that it will: enable peer-to-peer and merchant credit card transactions in the real world far beyond what’s capable today in most countries. What you get is a small dongle (which I can only [...]