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It Feels Like Christmas
Man. I have had a web search challenge that I have been working on for over three years! I kid you not. I just broke it this morning and I had to share it with someone. For the last few years, usually starting around December 1st some of the radio stations in Canada have carried […]
Xiangqi Anyone?
I can’t remember when I was first introduced to chess. I suspect it was either David (my cousin next door) or myself who first owned a game and I bet it was probably from one of those 30 games in one boxes that we used to get for Christmas when we were younger. I am […]
Internet Bandwidth Concerns
I received an interesting news article in my RSS feed from CBC today. It was all about an American report about how the Internet is nearing capacity. (You can read it here) I just loved their line… The company is not predicting that the internet will collapse, but it will get very slow. “Overall, transmitting […]
A Thrown Gauntlet via Outlook
So, I was mentioning to my wife this morning about the latest “Train Wreck” of an idea that Microsoft(MS) implemented. It would appear that they are trying to yet again rewrite a standard, this time with Outlook. Anyone who uses a different email package (instead of Outlook) has of course complained about the poor quality […]
Quebec City Internet Challenges
So we just did a mad dash to Quebec City and back last weekend. Five hours there, four hours back. Suffice to say all those MP3 Vaudeville CD’s I made (you can read about that here) paid huge dividends. We only had to play “Geography” for 2 hours! This trip created two technological challenges for […]
