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Saturday, January 30, 2010
Canadian TV providers are ripping us off with PVR fees
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog Recently there has been a lot of talk about broadcast reform in Canada. Here’s another argument as to why we need legislation to be more consumer-friendly: A Personal Video Recorder (PVR, also known as a DVR) can be rented from $20-25/month, depending on your provider (Rogers $24.95, BellTV $20). In the US
Thursday, January 28, 2010
City of Fredericton web site double-fail
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog Q:What’s worse than not having information posted on a website? A:Having it up on the site, but not linking to it so it can’t be found. Last week, I posted an article about how the City of Fredericton doesn’t post a lot of information on its website. Imagine my surprise when I Googled something com
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A quick review of the proposed Fredericton Transit Garage
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog The Dillon Consulting Transit Report suggested a new garage for Fredericton Transit as the current one isn’t big enough and is no longer suitable. Last week, city council agreed to spend $5.2 million on a new one. Some might think that $5.2 million is a lot, but compare it to Saint John who recently spent $23.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
2010 - Time to Stop Being Encouraged
From Will it Change You Blog credit: jaeWALK Ok so today while I was living the hard life (sitting in Starbucks, looking out over the ocean & listening to Jazz – WHAMMY!) I came to a great decision about 2010. Last year I think I read more encouraging posts, quotes, books & stories than anyone around. Actually that’s probably n
Monday, January 25, 2010
Double Header!
From the blog of Tim Scammell <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-jkEACCZJ88_jLdIj-4oiqKqrv57rC4vGQt85MFEAJGGQDFznRKUZkqvJNLmUiqrbc8qKV4Htw0X9K2C-f6ffEYNtaC156ktBWNSPsOYiGyzW7NN9ob9hAzlsOVYBKXk9wnqZbQ/s1600-h/100_3667.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-jkEACCZJ88_jLdIj-4oiqKqrv57rC4vGQt85MFEAJGGQDFznRKUZkqvJNLmUiqrbc8qKV4Htw0X9K2C-f6ffEYNtaC156ktBWNSPsOYiGyzW7NN9ob9hAzlsOVYBKXk9wnqZbQ/s320/10
Sunday, January 24, 2010
The State of Solid State Hard Drives
From the Coding Horror Blog
I've seen a lot of people play The Computer Performance Shell Game poorly. They overinvest in a fancy CPU, while pairing it with limited memory, a plain jane hard drive, or a generic video card. For most users, that fire-breathing quad-core CPU is sitting around twiddling its virtual thumbs most of the time. Computer perform
I've seen a lot of people play The Computer Performance Shell Game poorly. They overinvest in a fancy CPU, while pairing it with limited memory, a plain jane hard drive, or a generic video card. For most users, that fire-breathing quad-core CPU is sitting around twiddling its virtual thumbs most of the time. Computer perform
Thursday, January 21, 2010
For any remaining IE6 users...
From the Nimble Theory Blog
Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be getting the best experience possible. Honestly, I can't even begin to think about what your entire experience on the internet must be like? (...probably like riding a bike on the highway while cars blow by you on their way to Costco to get gallons o
Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be getting the best experience possible. Honestly, I can't even begin to think about what your entire experience on the internet must be like? (...probably like riding a bike on the highway while cars blow by you on their way to Costco to get gallons o
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
If nothing else today, please watch this video
From the blog of Tim Scammell I did a blog about this short movie quite a while ago. <br />I'm blogging it again because it was posted on Youtube yesterday by its creator Daniel M. Kanemoto for all to finally see again.<br />It hasn't been available for a little while.<br /><br />I don't know why I do this to myself but I watched
Monday, January 04, 2010
The Xanadu Dream
From the Coding Horror Blog
Links are the fundamental building blocks of the web. And every time I click on one, I can't help recalling the odd visionary who came up with the original idea of clickable links in text, aka hypertext, in 1963 -- Ted Nelson.
Ted Nelson is, shall we say, a character. He has gone on record many times with the four maxims th
Links are the fundamental building blocks of the web. And every time I click on one, I can't help recalling the odd visionary who came up with the original idea of clickable links in text, aka hypertext, in 1963 -- Ted Nelson.
Ted Nelson is, shall we say, a character. He has gone on record many times with the four maxims th
Friday, January 01, 2010
College Paper
rom the page: 1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lit place in front of your computer. 2. Log onto MSN and ICQ (be sure to go on away!). Check your email. 3. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it. 4. Walk down to the vending machines and buy
