It feels to me like October has come and gone very quickly! I can’t believe that Halloween is on Wednesday. Oh well. Here are my weekly notes:

• A thumb drive with a terabyte of storage space? Sign me up!
• If you think Windows is the only operating system that has the blue screen of death, think again. Apple has decided to join the BSOD club with OS X Leopard. So much for "no crashes" being a selling point!
• A third of Africa’s citizens will have access to broadband Internet by 2012? I hope it happens, but I’ll believe it when I see it.
• Do you know what the fastest growing group in Facebook history is? It’s titled "1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert", and it reached that mark in just nine days. Currently the group is at almost 1.2 million members. I wish I could see the breakdown of group members by age.
• I need to find a good place to read about Chinese technology companies. There’s lots of interesting stuff happening over there, such as the $1.5 billion IPO for Alibaba.com.
• Live in Edmonton and want an iPhone? Dial Hugh for iPhones! Heh well done sir.
• Busy week ahead for me…lots of moving. Hopefully I’ll get some programming done too! Oh and blog reading…haven’t opened Google Reader in days…

Here are my weekly notes:

• Went to see We Own The Night this evening. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either.
• Is piracy destroying the music industry? Hardly. Only sales of CDs are down, everything else is looking up.
• Edmonton Code Camp was on Saturday! I missed a couple sessions, but the ones I did see were pretty interesting. Here are some photos. I also learned about Launchy from Bil Simser…it’s a nifty little utility! I’ve only had it installed for a little while, but I think I’m really going to like it.
• Live in Edmonton or Calgary and dying to get an iPhone? Hugh can hook you up.
• This is hilarious. Inuvik, the small town in the Northwest Territories where I used to live, received 1200 litres of buttermilk by mistake. That’s more than the store, NorthMart, sells in three years!
• I have a friend who loves fall, a season we don’t usually get for very long here in Edmonton. This year has been pretty good so far, but I’m not sure I like this weather. It’s freezing in the morning, and warm in the afternoon. Kind of annoying.
• This is an excellent post from Doc Searls on the future of news/newspapers. Definitely worth a read.

Here are my weekly notes:

• The RestorAction Charity Gala last night was a major success! The signed Oilers jersey ended up going for $675. I’ll have pictures up as soon as I get my camera back from Sharon.
• Tomorrow is Blog Action Day! “One issue. One Day. Thousands of voices.” The topic tomorrow is the environment. If you’re a blogger you should totally take part!
• Also tomorrow is Edmonton’s municipal election. I was out yesterday morning dropping flyers for George Rice, my former principal, who is running in Ward G for the Public School Trustee position. I live in Ward G, so I’ll obviously be voting for him! Get out and vote!
• With Al Gore winning the Nobel, I expected the chatter about a potential presidential bid to increase. Didn’t expect the commentary to suggest a run is less likely now though! This article and this article explain things quite well.
• Interesting post from Nick Carr on the topic of super-inexpensive storage. The example he uses is definitely not typical, but it nonetheless illustrates that utility data storage (like S3) is really, really affordable. Now we just need other utility services to follow!
• TechCrunch noted that the one year anniversary of GooTube was this past week.
• Marshall Kirkpatrick says that Twitter is paying his rent! Essentially Marshall is finding that stories break on Twitter first. I’ve started getting the majority of my news through Twitter too.

Music
My favorite song at the moment is The Pretender by Foo Fighters. Such a wicked track! Some other songs I’ve been enjoying: Hot by Avril Lavigne, How Far We’ve Come by Matchbox Twenty, Foundations by Kate Nash, and Say Goodbye To Love by Kenna. Oh and Gimme More by Britney Spears, which I commented about this week:

Enjoying Britney’s track “Gimme More”…Britney is like Michael Jackson…enjoy the music, ignore the person.

Here are my weekly notes:

• Happy Thanksgiving Canucks!
• Here’s a story on the success of Yahoo! News. I visit at least once a day, it’s great!
• Everything I have read lately about Hillary Clinton suggests that it’s her race to lose. This article from The Economist does a good job of summarizing the current situation.
• If you’re using Remote Desktop with Windows Vista, you have to turn on ClearType. So much nicer!
• 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable
• The Edmonton Municipal Election is coming up on October 15th. Dave Cournoyer has a useful post with links to each of the candidates websites.
• Newsvine has been purchased by MSNBC. Newsvine is one of those sites that I visit very sporadically, but it does seem to have a fairly strong user base. Smart move by MSNBC.

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• Megan’s parents took us out for dinner tonight, to celebrate our entering the workforce. We’re now contributing to their pensions 🙂 Heh, very nice of them, and dinner was excellent.
• Ever wonder what the world would be like without Google Maps? We’d have more swastika-shaped buildings, that’s for sure.
• After a bit of a hiatus, I had two articles published at last100 this week. The first was on Halo 3 and Microsoft’s strategy beyond gaming, and the second was on the potentially doomed Zune.
• In a post that received lots of attention, Scott Karp outlined five reasons why he feels the mobile web sucks. He then wrote a follow-up post responding to some of the hostile comments left by readers of the first one. Both are worth a read.
• Here’s what I like about Wired magazine: I can purchase the relatively inexpensive physical version, read it without requiring access to an electronic device, and then go online to bookmark my favorite articles later because they are all available at the website for free.
• I downloaded and quickly watched the first episode of the new CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, solely because Kaley Cuoco (from 8 Simple Rules) is in the show. All I can say is I am glad I didn’t have to pay for it.
• The new Smallville which aired Thursday was excellent! They must have spent a fortune on the special effects. I was impressed that they had a nice mix of both subtle (Clark’s skin healing in the sunlight) and over-the-top (Clark vaporizing a river of water) effects. The new girl, Canada’s own Laura Vandervoort, didn’t have much screen time in the premiere. I’m sure we’ll see much more of her though!

Here are my weekly notes:

• I was at Ikea on Friday with Sharon, and she pointed out that they have parking spots reserved for hybrids. Here’s a couple photos. In my humble opinion, reserving spots for hybrids is only slightly less ridiculous than reserving spots for families (which I always park in).
• I guess Mike Comrie is doing fine in New York. He recently bought girlfriend Hilary Duff a $100,000 Mercedes SUV.
• A photo I took of the Fairmont Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa was selected for use in the Schmap Ottawa Guide. Kinda neat! They’ve used quite a few of my Dad’s photos.
• Congratulations to Mozy on the acquisition by EMC! I use Mozy every day to backup my Outlook data file, and we store some Paramagnus stuff on Mozy Pro too. It’s a great service.
• Attention bloggers: looking for something to write? Try tackling some of the 100 blog topics Chris Brogan hopes you write. I think I’ll try to write up a few of them.
• Pittsburgh and Green Bay are the only two cities with NFL teams where over 25% of women living in the market identify themselves as fans. The national average was 16%.
• I am curious about Yahoo! Teachers. Social networking designed specifically for teachers.
• Happy Autumn!

Here are my weekly notes:

• I did a lot of drinking this weekend! That’s out of character for me, but I’ve got a good excuse – my boss from the UK is in town. Those Brits sure can drink!
• I’ve written about banning Facebook at work before, but I like the way Mathew phrases it: Facebook is not the problem – Facebook is a symptom.
• Here are some interesting leaked numbers on Google Reader. Too bad their recent upgrade breaks in Opera 9.23.
• I’m fascinated by the work Boris Mann and others in Vancouver are doing with mesh networks. I am wondering about doing something similar here in Edmonton.
• Wired NextFest wrapped up today in Los Angeles. Check out the site for some mind-blowing stuff.
• The media must be over the moon about O.J. Simpson being back in the news (and in trouble with the law). Is there nothing else they could focus on?
• It definitely feels like winter is on the way, at least in the mornings.

Here are my weekly notes:

• Dad was in town for the weekend for business. Was nice to hang out with him and do some shopping. Oh and I went to get my eyes tested for the first time in eight years – doctor said I had very minor changes in my prescription…boo yah!
• I am using Windows Live Writer for this post which I haven’t used since the early betas. Just downloaded and installed it using the new integrated Windows Live installer. All the apps say Version 2008 and sport a very nice “Vista” look.
• Speaking of Vista, I got a new computer this weekend that has Windows Vista Business on it. I’ll post more about this later, but so far, I think the wireless support in Vista sucks compared to XPSP2. My computer is awesome though 🙂
• Twitter is doing some cool stuff for the MTV Video Music Awards…congrats!
• Windows Live Translator is on the way! Online translation hasn’t changed much in years…I hope the Live team has some good ideas for improvements.
• I detest coins smaller than 25 cents, so I absolutely think we should get rid of the penny.
• Like Dave Winer, I wish synching was a thing of the past. The iPod with Wi-Fi gets us one step closer, but there’s lots of work to do.

I think it’s safe to say that Windows Live Writer is my new favorite blogging client!

Weekly notes, this time on holiday Monday:

• Can’t believe it’s already September!
• On that note…I’m so happy I don’t have to go to school this week. I can honestly say I don’t miss going to class at all. I admit I’m somewhat curious to see what has changed on campus over the summer.
• For those of you in Calgary: have you ever been to Yardhouse Restaurant? A friend sent me this blog post which says that the Yardhouse has 100 wings for $15!!! Definitely going to have to check that out next time I’m in Calgary.
• Russell Beattie says: Buy Opera. I love the desktop browser, but Russell says the company is valuable mainly because of Opera Mini.
• I’m guilty of having lots of electronics in my bedroom – cell phone, computer(s), TV, Xbox, etc. Interesting story (though not surprising) that all of those gadgets in the bedroom lead to “junk sleep” in teenagers.
• Is Vancouver Canada’s greatest startup city? There’s certainly lots of cool stuff happening there.
• Hope you had a good long weekend! Mine was pretty good. Dickson & Andrew hosted a pretty awesome BBQ yesterday. Jane moved into her own place on Saturday and a bunch of us helped. Tom was up in Edmonton for a soccer tournament this weekend (they finished 4th). Got a haircut, washed my car, did some other random things.

Here are my weekly notes:

• We finally got around to doing a long-planned server move this weekend. It went quite well, all things considered!
• Sharon and I went to see another Fringe play on Friday, called Out of Pocket. I liked it, even if the story was sort of expected. The female actress switched between her characters amazingly well.
• Have you seen Tafiti? Cool demonstration of Silverlight technology, not very useful though.
• Here’s a handy list of tools for web developers working with Internet Explorer.
• My favorite t-shirt is missing 😦
• Justin Timberlake concert is Tuesday! I’m excited 🙂