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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
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
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
Tagged asbestos, canada, chrysotile, forfb, petition
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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
Tagged gis, google, googlemaps, vectordata, voicerecognition
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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
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
Tagged universityofwaterloo, uw, uwrecap, waterloo
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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.
Tagged desire2learn, intellectualproperty, patents
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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
Tagged email, inbox, inboxzero, mailbucket, newsreader, yahoopipes
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New Craigslist Search Features (by Jeremy Zawodny)
New Craigslist Search Features (by Jeremy Zawodny) – it’s great to see the work that Jeremy’s been doing. I’m most excited to see that I can now do decent boolean queries using ORing and phrases on Craigslist. I will definitely … Continue reading
Tagged boolean, craigslist, jeremyzawodny
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Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Fighting Duplication: Adding more arrows to your quiver
Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » Fighting Duplication: Adding more arrows to your quiver – another item I meant to blog last week. It’s good to see the search engines finally agree on something that’s been needed for years.
Tagged canonical, duplicates, rel, searchengines
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