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!

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 🙂

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• Today seemed to absolutely fly by. I don’t know where the day went!
• Do you like Crocs? Wish you could wear them in the winter? Yeah, I can’t believe it either, but there’s a new “Mammoth” version of the shoe for colder temperatures. Stop the madness! I saw a lady on the street wearing orange Crocs today. Ugliest thing ever.
• Great quote: “Allowing CDMA and GSM in North America is like allowing left and right hand drive cars simultaneously.”
• I haven’t checked out Pulse yet, but Robert seems to like the new service from Plaxo. Like me he was not impressed by Pownce, so maybe we’d have the same opinion on Pulse too. I’ll have to see.
• The first thing I do now when I come across another Twitter clone is look for an API. Sadly, Yappd has no such thing.
• Really interesting post from Larry on world temperature figures. Evidently NASA has corrected previously published information, and the change means that five of the ten warmest years on record occur before WWII. Umm, yeah, so how about that global warming?
• Kim is back in Edmonton tomorrow!

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• Another Gnomedex has come and gone. I didn’t go this year, unfortunately. On the other hand, all the related Twitter messages from the last couple of days make it seem like high school all over again. Too much needless bickering. Perhaps it would have been different in person?
• Really interesting diagram that shows the cycle of a fan.
• Rob Safuto has an interesting post examining the podcasting industry landscape. I should give it some more thought, but I more or less agree – there’s some good stuff happening, and some not so good stuff happening. Not sure how to get rid of the not so good stuff.
• John pointed me to the Massive Technology Show happening here in Edmonton at the end of September. Anyone going?
• Apparently there is a really good meteor shower happening right now. I wonder if I’ll be able to see anything in the city…
• What happened to the weather? Enough with the rain, let’s get back to the high twenties!

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• I went to the Edmonton Heritage Festival today. It was quite hot out, especially since I was wearing jeans and shoes instead of shorts and sandals (I left the house quite early, and it was a tad chilly out). I didn’t have any crazy food, but I did buy a hat from the Chinese pavilion that makes me look like a rice farmer (how the heck did my shirt get so wrinkly? I am looking at it now and it’s fine!).
• Fake Steve Jobs has been busted! Turns out it’s Daniel Lyons, a writer for Forbes.
• The Royal Alexandra Hospital here in Edmonton (the hospital where I was born) made Engadget today! Apparently they are testing some surgical robots. Hardcore.
• Interesting read about Microsoft doing business in China.
• I’ve been showing off the Remember the Milk application lately. I really like the user interface, especially the “undo” capabilities. Really impressive!
• I have been procrastinating about moving, which isn’t surprising I guess. I have my work cut out for me tomorrow.

It’s almost August already! Here are my weekly notes:

• Saskatchewan is going to be the first province in Canada to launch a widespread, publicly funded wireless network. I can only hope that this means Alberta and the other provinces aren’t far behind.
• Goodbye Linksys! Cisco has decided to drop the brand.
• I went to see The Simpsons Movie on Friday night with Megan – it rocked! It was exactly like a normal episode, only slighly longer. It was the top movie this weekend.
• Can you believe that Hilary Duff is dating Mike Comrie? You could do better Hilary. She’s looking amazing on the August issue of Maxim though.
• I didn’t go to Capital EX or Taste of Edmonton this year. And frankly, I’m not sad about that. I am looking forward to the Fringe though.
• I was walking down Whyte Ave with Sharon on Thursday evening, when I saw this sign out front of a store called Polly Magoo’s. It reads: “find us on facebook” – can we call Facebook mainstream now?