Yearly Archives: 2009

On the US Gov’t “Going Google”

On the US Gov’t “Going Google” – very true. Google has had great success, and thus they are a problem.

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Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month

Yahoo! Will Kill MyBlogLog Next Month – of all the services Yahoo’s been killing, this one is just sad. MyBlogLog was pretty innovative and just as useful today as it always has been, despite years of nothing new. At the … Continue reading

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Resumes

Well, I’ve updated the ‘ol resume. And my actual resume spells it properly. I can’t reference the old one as apparently I set it to not be indexed by search engines. Basically I updated all the information, restructured things a … Continue reading

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On being laid off from Microsoft

So I got laid off from Microsoft on Wednesday. I wasn’t really bothered about the job, as I wasn’t happy with it already and had been looking to find something else for quite a while. The unfortunate part is that … Continue reading

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Canadian Asbestos Exports

So I already knew that despite asbestos being banned in Canada (among many other places), we still export it to countries with poor health and safety regulations, which I find pretty horific. I was watching a CBC news segment on … Continue reading

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MapDotNet : Blog : Google voice recognition software used in street data collection process?

Last week Google replaced thier base maps in the US, no longer using data from TeleAtlas. The new data isn’t from OpenStreetMap either. I think we are finally starting to figure out where it all came from: MapDotNet : Blog … Continue reading

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Term Extraction Documentation for Yahoo! Search Web Services – YDN

Yahoo!’s Term Extraction Web Search is about to be discontinued. very sad wait, nevermind

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Imprint Online – So long Waterloo…

Imprint Online – So long Waterloo… – I never quite got around to finishing my series of concluding blog posts about the University of Waterloo, but this article raises a lot of points that I’d planned on discussing. Overall, the … Continue reading

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The Point Blog » Blog Archive » Company to Donate to Charity if Patent Litigation is Dropped

The Point Blog » Blog Archive » Company to Donate to Charity if Patent Litigation is Dropped great idea from Desire2Learn. They’re an educational software maker in Waterloo with a pretty neat product fighting BlackBoard’s completely pointless patent.

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Email and Newsreader management; thanks to Mailbucket and Yahoo Pipes

I’ve been working (for a long time, but more lately) on both reducing what I see in my email and newsreader as well as differentiating the two. I’ve decided that my email (Gmail) is for personal communication, as in mail … Continue reading

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