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iBooks Only Available in US

January 28, 2010

For all those who are excited about owning an iPad as an ebook reader in Canada, don’t expect to be able to buy books from iBooks. Looks like we’re going to have to wait years for iBooks to come to Canada, just like it took years for iTunes music, movies, and TV shows to come [...]

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The Birth of Horizontal Gaming

January 27, 2010

Here are some of my thoughts about the iPad. Some of them come from listening to commentary from twit.tv, which I think they got wrong, and some are just my own thoughts.

You will probably be able to read Kindle ebooks on it by using the Kindle iPhone App.
Is there a way to print documents from [...]

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Freeze and Enhance

December 18, 2009

I thought this video was funny. It just shows you how original TV shows and movies are:

Then after you watch that video, watch this parody by the Red Dwarf crew:

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National Novel Writing Month

November 6, 2009

So I’ve decided to participate this year in National Novel Writing Month. So far I’ve written 5,308 words. I should at 10,000 words today to be able to make it to 50,000 by the end of the month, so hopefully tomorrow I can get in some more writing.
So far the experience has been [...]

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A Million Miles In A Thousand Years

August 31, 2009

Here are the first thirty pages of Donald Miller’s new book, A Million Miles In A Thousand Years:
A Million Miles In A Thousand Years by Donald Miller

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Seven Year Old Driver

August 3, 2009

Il conduit une voiture à 7 ans – Blog

Kids these days have to grow up so fast.

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Giving Windows 7 a Spin

June 15, 2009

So, my wife came back from Winnipeg with her broken laptop (according to Nerds On Site Winnipeg, but I’ll write about that in another blog post). Anyway, since she has a nice shiny new laptop I figured I’d give Windows 7 a spin on her old one. And my option of Windows 7 so far? [...]

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Whois gc.ca

June 12, 2009

This is just something random I discovered on the net, but I did a whois on gc.ca and learned that the gc.ca is a normal .ca domain like every other .ca domain, registered at Internic.ca. But what I found funny was that they only registered the domain for 1 year. Are they expecting that Canada [...]

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News Media and Facebook

May 21, 2009

This is just something I’ve noticed has been appearing a lot in Canadian news media. I am not sure if the same trend is happening in the states, but it seems that the major news outlets in Canada, such as CBC and CTV, have been using profile pictures and wall postings taken from Facebook in [...]

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