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Take Steve Ballmer ... Please!

So trolling through my daily RSS feeds, I came across not one, but two news articles that further make me wonder how the hell Steve Ballmer got to be the head of Microsoft, and why no-one has bothered to take this guy …

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Number Portability in Canada

It’s only taken, like, forever for Canada to finally bring this little piece of heaven to its consumers: the ability to take one’s assigned phone number from one carrier to another. Mind you, it’s really only for …

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Losing another friend

Jim’s quitting. I just found out tonight. I’ve suspected for a couple of weeks, though. It started when Jim sent me an IM asking for an offsite lunch. Just him and myself. That was my warning bell. The reason was because …

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Imagini VisualDNA

[Ed. note: The links in this article no longer work, as Imagini apparently no longer exists, despite being a neat idea. I’m leaving the article, however, as record, even with the broken links.] One of my …

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Buying another house

It’s official — we have a new house. Well, not a new house, but a different house than the one we’re currently in, hence new to us. Why a new house?, you may ask. The honest reality is that we can’t stay in this one much …

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Inspirational Star Trek

As you might recall from earlier posts, I’m a reformed Trekkie. That means I not only understand Trekkie jokes, but I can also appreciate them without getting offended. In particular, the Star Trek Inspirational Posters. …

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Apparently I've been lying all this time...

So I’m taking a moment for a break at lunch to read my favourite article, The Globe and Mail’s Social Studies page. I read the following: U.S. researchers are developing “truth detection” software, to see if …

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Pictures return to Sowrey.Org

It’s been a long time since a photograph has been seen here. It’s not for a lack of wanting. As of right now, I’ve got 3,606 pictures in my library, covering a huge range of subjects and topics. (988 of those are for …