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Since the Vancouver 2010 Olympics came to a close and Canada finished with its best medal-count ever setting a record for the most medals received for a host country and most gold medals, there’s been a lot of talk about the “Own the Podium” (OTP) campaign. This was introduced in 2005 and provided transparency for [...]

Simplicity \Sim*plic”i*ty\, n. [F. simplicit['e], L. simplicitas. The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine. [1913 Webster] Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life. [1913 Webster] [...]

Before leaving for Cabo San Lucas, Melody (my wife) had gathered a bunch of t-shirts from her school (Calgary Preparatory School) that they were no longer in need of. These t-shirts filled a suitcase which we checked and brought with us to take to the Captain’s Kid’s Daycare Center. This school in Cabo San Lucas, [...]

This week I posted on Facebook the awful accusations that Pat Robertson made about Haiti making “a pact with the devil” to get out from under the “heel of the French” hence the earthquake was somehow deserved…. Here’s the video. Today, after reading through my news feeds I found the best response to this garbage [...]

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 [...]