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Live Search Maps - now with Bird's Eye View in Toronto

It's amazing what MS will give you, if you give them a Team Canada Hockey Jersey . Read More...

MS MVP Summit 2008: Who did you give your Team Canada Jersey To?

The 2008 Microsoft MVP Summit concluded yesterday with a closing keynote from Steve Ballmer, which was great as usual. This was the second year that the Canadian MVP's wore their Team Canada Jersey's. I was a bit surprised that more countries didn't follow Read More...

Live Traffic on Local.Live.Com - for Torontonians

Should you take Lakeshore or the Gardiner home tonight? I just noticed on Local.Live.com that the Traffic button works for Toronto. I have no idea how long this has been going on - anarchy I tell you. Live Search Maps with Canadian Data! Bravo. Incidentally, Read More...

Now Powered by Bullfrog

Well last night at his "If YOU were Prime Minister..." Tour in Hamilton, David Suzuki pushed me over the edge and today the Gervin household switched our residential electricity provider to Bullfrog Power. Bullfrog is the first 100% green electricity Read More...

My new Prius

Well, I finally got my new car, a Toyota Prius Hybrid last week. It took a bit longer than I had hoped since I ordered it fully geeked out with GPS Navigation, Voice Activation, integrated Bluetooth headset, and rearview camera which my kids, and more Read More...

Will code for food?

Is it just me or over this past fall did we hit a new low for the software development discipline in Toronto? Most of the downtown core was plastered with these home made signs reminiscent of purveyors of piano lessons or dog walking. What's next, coders Read More...

Building Cathedrals, Bazaar's, and Mystery Houses

Almost since software development has been a profession has the practice of software development been compared to the construction industry. In this sphere of analogy, I often use the contrast in the process of architect cathedrals against the evolution Read More...

MSN Search can help you find X

It seems wierd that you'd want to go to a search engine to solve an expression for X (after all, the answer isn't “out there”, it's in the expression itself). But oh well, MSN Search to the rescue ((122.78+( x^2))/190)=.93 [via LifeHacker Read More...

Mainstream Local Search Maps must have a scalability problem

“Tim Horton's near Hamilton, ON” should be a test case for any good local/map search enginge. MSN Local? http://search.msn.com/local/results.aspx?q=Tim+Horton%27s&w=hamilton%2C+Ontario%2C+Canada&FORM=QBXR In MicroSpeak, I'm “super“ disappointed. Read More...

Who is looking at your mobile device right now?

Korby Parnell tells of an unfortunate story about Rob Caron losing his Pocket PC in the Houston airport and then trying to have his carrier disable it since he has “everything on it”. They also lost their luggage enroute to TechEd in Orlando. How ironic Read More...
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