Technology

20 April 2023: Starship goes BOOM!
6 March 2023: The Importance of Technical Writing
16 February 2023: Generative AI is at the Jurassic Park Moment
6 January 2023: The Problem with Infinity
2 January 2023: Go Hugo!
11 November 2022: Social media is dead
9 November 2022: Meta admits failure over the Metaverse
29 July 2022: A Visit to Lake Country
5 May 2022: Voting with Blockchains - Equity and Representation
27 April 2022: A Decade Without Cable Television
7 April 2022: The Metaverse Needs a Pandemic
23 March 2022: Anyone sick of hearing about the metaverse?
18 January 2022: Aircraft Manufacturers Need Better Accountability
7 January 2022: Does the Sonos Patent Decision Ignore the Original Idea?
1 January 2022: Dungeons and Dragons
28 December 2021: Evolution of my Website
28 March 2020: How to Work Remotely
12 February 2018: Dispelling a myth of centralized IT
20 March 2015: 20 Years a Web Developer
9 October 2013: An open letter to Nest Labs - please don't outsource your support
28 December 2012: The Nest - Excellence in Product Design and Customer Service
9 August 2012: How to be a Technical Writer
24 July 2012: Marketing Red Herring - QR Codes
19 June 2012: Thoughts on Microsoft Surface
27 April 2012: TV is dead. Long live the internet!
9 April 2012: Renovating, a word on LED lighting
8 February 2012: Canada, You're about to lose your freedom
17 January 2012: Why SOPA will (and must) fail
22 July 2011: My upgrade to OS X "Lion"
10 May 2011: Why you should use Google Analytics
11 April 2011: An argument for wired city council
13 October 2010: Switching from Shaw to Telus
13 October 2010: The development in my life
13 October 2010: The fork in the road
17 September 2010: From the frying pan...
10 September 2010: Get Geeqee
9 June 2010: Visit Calgary - You're Very Welcome!
1 May 2010: Flash - I'm not dead yet!
7 April 2010: Marketing is from Mars, IT is from Venus
15 March 2010: How a cold led to a new TV
8 March 2010: The end of the individual experience
21 February 2010: The failure of the electric car
11 February 2010: What makes a Senior Developer
1 February 2010: Make April 1 "IE6 Dies" Day
24 January 2010: Greed kills innovation
16 January 2010: Copyrights are the new Colonialism
5 November 2009: Alberta communications companies suck
24 September 2009: A good programmer is lazy, not stupid
17 September 2009: True story
11 August 2009: How to move your website
10 August 2009: How to host your own website (the simple version)
5 August 2009: You can't kill IE6
3 July 2009: I wouldn't have done it that way
24 June 2009: The "Power" of Word in Outlook
7 November 2008: Sowrey's Law
31 October 2008: Blog or Die
28 October 2008: The Network Connection
21 September 2008: Dear Canada, I'm going to break the law
10 September 2008: Steve Jobs blows it. Again.
2 September 2008: I (heart) Google Chrome
11 August 2008: Why the right tools matter
8 August 2008: My new 1998-era Nokia TDMA cell phone
8 August 2008: The phones I ordered finally showed up
7 August 2008: My Canon Rebel XT doesn't work
8 July 2008: One week to go
4 June 2008: Web Analytics Porn
29 May 2008: Costa Rican Interviews, Day 1
27 May 2008: Funny things in emails
22 May 2008: ScribbleLive - Live Blogging Done Right!
7 May 2008: What have you done with Spock's brain?
28 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Casual Privacy
28 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Capacity Planning for Web Operations
28 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Even Faster Web Sites
25 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Bling Bling, Marketing and Monetizing through Social Applications
25 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Widgets Growing Up
25 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Ontologies for the Internet
25 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Friday Keynote
24 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Creating a Coherent Social Strategy for Buiness
24 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - The Dark Side of Ajax
24 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Adding "Where" to Mobile and Web Applications
24 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Website Psychology
24 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Designing for a Web of Data
24 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Wednesday morning keynotes
23 April 2008: South Park pub crawl
23 April 2008: I'm on Twitter
23 April 2008: Blogging woes will delay postings
23 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Community Building - Good, Bad, and Ugly
22 April 2008: Some observations on the Web 2.0 Expo
22 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
22 April 2008: Web 2.0 Expo - Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design
22 April 2008: At the Web 2.0 Expo
1 April 2008: WordPress 2.5 + K2 RC4 = Bad News
31 March 2008: Anyone going to Web 2.0 Expo?
28 March 2008: Why I pick on Microsoft
20 March 2008: How much of the internet is a waste of time?
28 February 2008: To Mac or not to Mac?
6 February 2008: Wireless photography rocks!
16 January 2008: How to get good portability
3 January 2008: Hello, unlimited wireless data in Canada!
2 January 2008: 2008 Predictions - History Repeating
28 December 2007: RIP Netscape
5 November 2007: Been around the block a few times
20 October 2007: Is Microsoft's Popfly an easy out?
11 October 2007: I hate Microsoft Word
4 October 2007: Will Microsoft ever admit that Vista was a bad idea?
24 September 2007: Could Google do evil?
20 September 2007: Apple doesn't hate Canada ... Rogers, Bell, and Telus do
18 September 2007: The iPhone is obsolete
18 August 2007: I'm on crack
17 August 2007: iPhones take a long time to charge
1 August 2007: A Tale of Spam
29 July 2007: I have an iPhone ... sort of
25 July 2007: iPhone Torture
24 July 2007: Caught in the Google Dance
29 June 2007: The new K2 ain't much better...
29 June 2007: WordPress 2.2.1 broke my site!
15 June 2007: Yoshirolla Kilomantra mayhem
12 June 2007: Yoshirolla Kilomantra
11 June 2007: Now I really want a Mac
8 June 2007: How interactive marketing fails because of technical architecture
31 May 2007: eBay buys StumbleUpon
30 May 2007: Google sucks up Panoramio
29 May 2007: Google in 20 years
10 May 2007: DRM's new name - Digital Consumer Enablement
3 May 2007: Breakpoints patented?
2 May 2007: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
1 May 2007: Up a notch in ranking
30 April 2007: Refreshing legalese
25 April 2007: Take the Web Design Survey!
18 April 2007: Beware of XHTML
18 April 2007: Is Blinkx Remote the end of TV?
18 April 2007: Using captcha instead of usernames and passwords
22 March 2007: Askimet - The best WordPress plugin ever!
16 March 2007: Take Steve Ballmer ... Please!
15 March 2007: Number Portability in Canada
11 March 2007: Imagini VisualDNA
28 February 2007: What is that irritating whine?
25 February 2007: Pictures return to Sowrey.Org
23 February 2007: iTunes experience is better than Windows Media
14 February 2007: RedDot Product Roadmap at Summit 2007
13 February 2007: Gala Banquet at Summit 2007
13 February 2007: Content Object Modelling at Summit 2007
13 February 2007: Solve the Challenges of Social Computing with RedDot at Summit 2007
13 February 2007: Complementing and Enhancing Search Engine Optmization (SEO) Using RedDot CMS at Summit 2007
13 February 2007: Case Study - Optimizing Content Management at the National Aquarium of Baltimore at Summit 2007
13 February 2007: Broadband Video News Powered by RedDot at Summit 2007
13 February 2007: Another Day at Summit 2007
12 February 2007: RedDot CMS and Live Server Upgrade to Streamline Info Architecture at Summit 2007
12 February 2007: RedDot Best Practices in Template Creation at Summit 2007
12 February 2007: Leveraging RedDot CMS to create UNICEF websites around the world at Summit 2007
12 February 2007: RedDot Keynote at Summit 2007
12 February 2007: Keynote at Summit 2007
12 February 2007: Live from Huntington Beach
15 January 2007: Disbelieving DRM and copy protection
9 January 2007: I want an iPhone
3 January 2007: With a few bugs, it would seem...
3 January 2007: All new for 2007!
28 December 2006: VIA Wi-Fi = No-Fi
1 December 2006: I still got it...
27 November 2006: Microsoft Vista is a failure
10 October 2006: Shrinking the world through video conferencing
27 August 2006: People need to learn why CSS is good
22 August 2006: My Expectations of a Technology Team
14 August 2006: Happy Birthday, IBM PC!
27 May 2006: Layered Interfaces - Getting Technical
20 May 2006: Layered Interfaces - Setting the Stage
15 March 2006: Google at the CCAT Dinner
22 February 2006: Reform the US Patent Office!
17 February 2006: The day after the CMMYs
14 February 2006: Why no-one should care that Google censored itself in China
15 November 2005: The Canadian government has gone shady
13 May 2005: The internyet
28 March 2005: Give web developers respect
27 March 2005: Blogs as a content management system
27 March 2005: Google saves the day again
21 March 2005: Writing HTML like it's 1993 with Molly
16 March 2005: Microsoft needs to stick to standards
20 February 2005: Enough with AJAX already
19 February 2005: Writing HTML like it's 1993
11 January 2005: JavaScript Web Standards
1 November 2004: New cell phone for Hallowe'en
5 August 2004: Search Engine Strategies Conference 2004 San Jose, Last day
4 August 2004: Search Engine Strategies Conference 2004 San Jose, Yahoo! Party
3 August 2004: Search Engine Strategies Conference 2004 San Jose, Google Dance
2 August 2004: Search Engine Strategies Conference 2004 San Jose, Overture and LookSmart
1 August 2004: Search Engine Strategies Conference 2004 San Jose, Calgary to San Jose
5 April 2003: Toshiba e330 PDA
1 February 2003: Chinese New Year 4700, Space Shuttle Columbia Explosion
2 December 2002: My new home computer
7 February 2000: Why I Don't Want to be a Technical Writer Anymore