Category: Rants
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Halton Hills Community Energy Plan Rant
So a little while back, it looked like the city that I live in was interested in the opinions of the people living here and set up an IdeaScale board for submissions relating to a Halton Hills community energy plan. IdeaScale, for those of you that don’t know is like…
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Kids Can’t Use Computers
There is an amazing post from a few weeks back on Coding 2 Learn and it is entitled, Kids Can’t Use Computers… And This Is Why It Should Worry You, and it discusses some things I’ve known for a while, but never really put in words. The most important part…
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Living in Georgetown
I have lived in Georgetown for around five months now, and I wanted to give a quick update on my thoughts regarding the town. Warning, this is a bit of a rant.
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Organizing Text Messages
One thing that bothers me about text messaging is how it ends up being a system more like instant messaging rather than short e-mails. I can label an e-mail, mark it as important, or otherwise make it distinct. I can search through e-mails, find previous messages, and easily manage the…
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Fan Expo Canada Adds Sports
Last year was my first year at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto, and it is looking like it might have been my best opportunity to go, as this year they have added Sports Celebrities to their roster. Yes, Fan Expo is going to be taking both the North and South…
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Locked Out of My Apartment
So, I’ve been living in Georgetown for over a month now, and I’ve never needed to unlock the exterior door. It remained unlocked the entire time, and so I never needed to test that key. Unfortunately, for the first time last night, it was locked upon returning home, and I…
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F-35s Scrapped
So, my cousin, Mark, tagged me on Facebook in regards to a link on the National Post about the F-35 purchase being scrapped. It got me ranting and raving a bit, so I decided to collect those thoughts a bit and post them here. Here’s what I posted on Facebook:…
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Cyanogen Mod 7
So, I have tried twice before to install a custom firmware onto my phone. The last time, I almost made my phone unusable, but after hours of work, I was able to get it back to the stock firmware. Today, I decided to try again, and was finally able to…
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Smartphones Too Difficult
One issue that recently came up in my life is how complex smartphones can be, and how many users aren’t really ready for the learning curve. For the longest time, cell phones were just to make phone calls. You took them out of your pocket, dialed, and were able to…
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Laptop Cooling
Why don’t laptop docks have included cooling fans/pads for the laptops? There are some HP laptops at work that keep randomly shutting down, and it appears to be from a heat issue, as both machines could easily fry an egg on the bottom of them after a day of use.…
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Job Titles
So, I know job titles don’t really matter in some respects, but in the more traditional job market, it can have a huge effect on your potential career progression. Recently, I had a little back and forth about the difference between a Web Programmer and an Application Developer and how…
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Jack Link’s Jerky Experience
So, I’ve been a long time Jerky fan, but recently, I bought some Jack Link’s Jerky and I was bummed. It looked and tasted like rubber with beef flavouring. Outraged that I spent ten dollars for one hundred and twenty grams of meat that is going to go into the…
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