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Unpolished short posts, statuses, tweets, links, videos, and brief thoughts.
A great visualization of media hype
A great visualization of global media scare stories over time – Swine Flu is measurably bigger than previous hyped stories.
Alex Bowyer: Swine flu – From the horses mouth
http://alexbowyer.blogspot.com/2009/08/swine-flu-from-horses-mouth.html
my personal write up of swine flu
Read MoreTARDIS is alive! :-)
Back before we left the UK, Mrs Alex and I (ok she did most of the work) digitized all our CDs and DVDs not to mention paperwork, recipes and all sorts of other documents to reduce the amount we had to take with us to Canada. Given we’ve also been living here in Canada without a TV for the last six months, we have accumulated plenty more downloaded movies & TV shows. We brought about 8 hard drives with us to Canada and our FreeNAS install media, and after 2 case upgrades, 2 additional green 1 Terabyte hard drives, 2 new 4 port PCI SATA cards and a beefier PSU, not to mention much consolidation of data from smaller, older IDE drives, I am pleased to announce our behemoth of a fileserver is alive.. Just short of 6 Terabytes of storage for our viewing and data storage pleasure! Hurrah! Now to get my Popcorn Hour media player which Alex bought me for my birthday working.. and then it’s HD projector time (which is handy as we have just painted the walls in the lounge of our new apartment white which is just the right colour for projecting onto)…
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Read MoreLucidChart takes Google love to a new level
This messagebox popped up when I registered for LucidChart to view a flowchart a colleague shared with me. An interesting new way for Google to gain browser share!
Read MoreI know you want to be Canadian :-)
Just came across this amusing video which Canadian singer Julia Bentley did with Andrew Gunadie to celebrate Canada Day earlier this month. It’s silly but fun! Check out the lyrics:
Yeah I know that you wanna be Canadian, please
Even if in winter things tend to freeze
We’ve got the world monopoly on trees
And our country’s bordered by three different seas
Yeah I know that you wanna be Canadian, please
An interesting definition of “Never”
Don't you hate it when companies make misleading promises? While reading this article and looking deeper into it, I came across this conflict between Shutterfly's terms and conditions and their advertised policy on the front page. Imagine being caught out by that, how mad you'd be!
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