Here’s a good lesson on why you shouldn’t trust secondary sources: I sat down and grabbed a coffee and read Alec Saunders reporting that: The BBC is reporting this morning that the World Economic Forum has said that the US has lost its position as the worlds primary engine of technology innovation. A cluster of… [Read more…]
March 29, 2007
This Saturday will be the Third BarCamp held in Ottawa. This comes after a number of successful DemoCamps and the previous BarCamps in Ottawa. This time around there will be a change in venue with the event being held @ Carleton University. Hopefully the parking meters will not be monitored as I don’t believe there… [Read more…]
March 29, 2007
On saturday I did some changes within wordpress.com and messed up some setting on my MarsEdit system. So all of the posts over the past week or so have been sitting on my desktop instead of hitting the blog. Of course I could have just cut and past them into wordpress but that would be… [Read more…]
March 23, 2007
This arrived in my inbox today. The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington engineering mid-term. The answer was so “profound” that the Professor shared it with colleagues, and the sharing obviously hasn’t ceased… Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or Endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote… [Read more…]
March 22, 2007
ahh Facebook….. When you can’t find anything to post about it comes back as a worrisome little site. Case in point: Today, the Ontario Police today announced that A Hamilton woman posed ‘huge threat’ by hiding HIV status According to the article: A woman from Hamilton, Ont., has been charged after accusations that she had… [Read more…]
March 20, 2007
Not sure I get what they’re up to. I’ve got them on my RSS feed because they’re the only Ottawa Tech focused news site with an Available RSS feed and they’re timely on getting their news out. But then today they posted this. Nothing wrong with the content except that its 2 years old?! James… [Read more…]
March 29, 2007
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