Category: Featured
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Star Trek: Section 31
There was some discussion on Reddit regarding what the next Star Trek television series should be and so I gave it a bit of thought…
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Fan Expo Toronto 2012
So, I went with my two cousins, Mark and Kyle, and some friends, Tom, Tracey, Greg and Sue to Fan Expo in Toronto last week, and it was a good time. Three and a half days was a bit too much, especially when the crowds were crazy thick on Saturday,…
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Music in My Life
Unlike my friend, Tom, I’m not going to go through and find album covers (Top songs pre-2000). I just wanted to quickly take an opportunity to list some of the great deal of music that has helped shaped my life and brings back strong memories.
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Education is Failing
This is going to be a rather long rant. You’ve been warned. After reflecting on my time in the educational system, as well as those around me, I’ve realized how inadequate the current system is and have some thoughts regarding changes that need to happen if education is going to…
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Trimming Earth’s Population
The World Population Clock says we are above 7 billion people now, and on Reddit, someone asked what criteria you would use to reduce that number to 3 billion. I love these kind of writing prompts, so I’m going to take you through what I would do in this situation.…
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Free Idea: Public Photo Portfolio Builder
Here’s an idea I had. Feel free to build it or whatever. While I had the idea, I don’t have the funds required to make this a reality or a success, so if you can, feel free to have at it. The user comes to the site and creates an…
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My Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street
So, the protests have been going on for a while now, but have yet to reach any kind of critical mass that will actually do anything other than get themselves arrested it seems. I love the idea of Occupy Wall Street (wikipedia). The idea that if everyone making less than…
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Usage Based Billing Back in the News
I’ve covered this topic before (Canadian Internet Issue: Usage Based Billing and UBB: Where are We?), and continue to try to remain informed regarding the situation in my country regarding Internet access, and its cost. While consumer level usage based billing may seem dead as a policy, consumers are still…
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Tiny Homes Revisited
So, I’ve still been keeping track of the Tiny Homes movement, but as I’m sure you are all well aware, I haven’t made the leap yet. (my apartment is just too cheap) As I’ve been browsing the web, I’ve been thinking about things more, adding more details, saving images, documents,…
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WordPress.org to WordPress.com?
I’m considering moving all my sites from WordPress.org software, hosted on various servers to WordPress.com’s hosted solution. The reason behind this is that I don’t have the time or the energy to properly maintain WordPress installations currently, and as easy as they’ve made it, with between half a dozen to…
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Game of Thrones
So, I’ve finished watching the first season, a ten episode season of Game of Thrones, and what started out as a fantasy show with some nudity and an impressive set and costume budget quickly turned into one of the best epics on television that I’ve ever witnessed. Game of Thrones…
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Future Tech: Right Again
Two years ago on a science fiction blog I was running, I wrote a post entitled Future Idea: Computer Settings That Follow You, and today, I feel vindicated as a screenshot from the next version of Windows showed up, and it includes the essence of my idea in it. The…
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