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Monthly Archives: August 2013
The future of air travel?
This BLOG post was written while flying over Lake Winnipeg. It’s a clear day and the weather down there looks amazing. When Commander Hatfield was up on the space station earlier this year, I monitored his twitter posts for a … Continue reading
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Tagged air travel, airships, helium, high altitude vacations, travel
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A new printer…
I just replaced our aging printer with a new HP6600 all-in-one. The printer itself promises more pages per ink cartridge, faster printing, faster scanning, air-print for wireless devices and there is only a power cable because it connects to the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged communication, email printing, hardware, network security, printer, wireless printer
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Lazy, Crazy, Days of Summer
Hey Readers, Sorry for the late post today, I didn’t have time on the weekend to get my posts written so I’m having to do them a day at a time this week. Last weekend was the last big push … Continue reading
Blackberry not quite dead yet!!!
In the Monty Python movie the Holy Grail, the movie starts out with a scene from the black death where people are bringing out their dead to be picked up by the wagons. One of the people in the pile … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackberry, communication, innovation, mobile apps, mobile devices
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A cure for cancer?
I was as skeptical when I read the headline, but it seems that there might be something to this finding. The study found that DCA — or dichloroacetate — can shrink the tumours by altering a cancer cell’s metabolism. Read … Continue reading
“The Tile”
A couple of weeks ago I had a post called “Find my iThingy”. After describing that post to one of my friends he sent me a link to a crown sourced project called “The Tile”. http://www.thetileapp.com/ I’m sure many of … Continue reading
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Tagged C++ programming, connected things, energy harvesting, hardware, innovation, sensors, tech startups, tile
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Ramadan
“And now for something completely different…” One of the great things about living in Canada is that we work along side people of every faith and we learn from their life’s journey. Oddly enough, it wasn’t until recently that I … Continue reading
Are we all hoarders?
I am currently experiencing what it is like to be the executor of a will. The latest task at hand has been to get the house that I grew up in ready to sell. My wife and I moved seven … Continue reading
Conferencing without echo cancellation
The future of large board room conferencing system may not involve echo cancellation. There is a company in the Boston area that makes directional audio tiles that can be installed in the ceiling above conference room seats. The tiles are … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, board room sound, conferencing, directional sound, echo cancellation, hardware
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Long Cycles
When I was 12 or 13 growing up in Cornwall Ontario, we had one of the worst winters that the area had ever seen. Just before that winter, we had one of the biggest harvests that the area had ever … Continue reading