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Land of the Living Skies
July 3 was the 100th Anniversary of the Silverson family farm south of Kayville and Ormiston, Saskatchewan. That particular farm was settled by my mother's Grandfather, although the surrounding farms were also settled by cousins (or soon to be cousins) who immigrated from Romania between 1911 and 1920.
While I often heard stories of how [...]
Civilization V Announced!
via youtube.com
OK, I’m a little late on this, because it the announcement came in February. But i’m very excited to learn there is a new version of Civ coming out in the Fall. Civilization IV is my all time favourite PC game and I can hardly wait for the new version. [...]
Shirky’s myth of complexity
Clay Shirky has given us a surprising number of Internet myths. And by this I mean not falsehoods but the opposite: Broad, illuminating ways of making sense of what’s going on. For example, Clay’s post about the power law distribution of links in the blogosphere (based on research by Cameron Marlow) changed how we view [...]
Marketing for Small Local Businesses
Just a test to see what happens when I post via email from google reader. Will it link to Chris’s post or post the whole thing?
Marketing for Small Local Businesses
via chrisbrogan.com by chrisbrogan on 4/1/10
I was talking to a friend who runs a mobile massage business. She takes her table to you, does the [...]
A walk down memory lane.
When I was 14 or so I used to spend my spring break at my Aunt’s in Calgary. Mom would put my sister and me on the bus, or the train, or in the passenger seat of my cousin Barry’s semi and we’d hang out for a week in Cowtown.
The best part was [...]
More of the frozen northland
After a night spent watching the (rainy, indoor)Olympic Opening Ceremony and then a Wild Chef episode set in the arctic, I realize we have much more in common with Nunavut than rainy Vancouver.
That feeling came home as we drove out to an early hockey game on a crisp, clear winter morning. The light [...]
Happy Friday
Cindy and Robyn are at a movie, so my portable office is my favourite coffee house: Roca House on Rochdale. Best latte in Regina, made with love.
No better place for my weekly review, reading CRTC reports, pricing ebooks, etc.
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Pee Wee Capitals win again!
Congratulations to the Regina Pee Wee Female Capitals who won their second tournament of the season. This weekend it was the Swift Current tourney which the Capitals won after beating the Weyburn Angels 3-2 in the final on Sunday.
The girls did well to get to the final, beating the Diefenbaker Thunder 4-1 and [...]
With Lure of Cash, M.I.T. Group Builds a Balloon-Finding Team to Take Pentagon Prize
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology edged out about 4,300 other teams on Saturday in a Pentagon-sponsored contest to correctly identify the location of 10 red balloons distributed around the United States.
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Times Topics: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The contest, which featured a $40,000 prize, was organized by the [...]
Copyright’s Creative Disincentive
If you follow the debate around digital copyright at all, you’ll like this article by David Weinberger. There’s a consultation on Canadian copyright going on right now — well worth getting involved.
Copyright’s Creative Disincentive
August 31st, 2009 | Written by David Weinberger with intro by Elliot Noss | Jump to comments
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