Here are my weekly notes:

• My first week at the new job was good, except I had forgotten how much it sucks to get up at 7 AM every morning! Thank goodness for Starbucks.
• This one is for you Megan: Jon Bon Jovi objects to name of energy drink.
• Don Cherry is now pimping Rayovac batteries. At what point does what’s left of his credibility go down the crapper? Maybe it already has.
• I only came across DotNetKicks on Friday. It’s like Digg, but for .NET developers!
• Hott4Hill is indeed hot. Not sure if the video helps or harms Hillary though.
• Speaking of politics, here’s a great post at the 37signals blog talking about the fact that EVERY presidential campaign logo is red, white, and blue. The candidates want their logos to scream patriotism, but instead they scream uncreative and boring.
• Here’s a fun Web Trend Map for 2007. Looks like someone had too much time on their hands!
• Starting this week I am going to be a regular contributor to last100, so if you haven’t done so already, subscribe now!

Here are my weekly notes:

• We published an update to Podcast Spot today. Nothing major, mostly backend stuff. Looks good so far!
• I am so excited for The Simpsons Movie! It’s going to be great. Vanity Fair has two excellent interview-style articles about the cartoon this month, here and here.
• There’s really only one question you need to ask about the iPhone: will it blend?
• Congrats to Digipede, who won Microsoft’s ISV Innovation Partner of the Year. I remember looking at their stuff a long time ago and being really impressed.
• Everyone should know that Canada isn’t really a haven for piracy as the record labels and movie studios would have you believe, but just in case, this video explains things.
• I really hope the Republicans do not win the American election in 2008. I mean, just look at this.
• I start my new job tomorrow! I’ll be working as a web developer for QuestionMark here in Edmonton.

Here are my weekly notes – this edition has a “green” theme since Live Earth was yesterday:

• On-demand streams of all the concerts are available at the MSN Live Earth site. It really only works in Internet Explorer, but aside from that, it’s a great experience.
• The Wikipedia entry for Live Earth is very informative, and includes a good overview of the event’s controversies criticisms. I like the comment Chris Rock made in London: “I think this will do for global warming what Live 8 did for ending world hunger.”
• This comic about The Art of Greenwashing is very funny.
• Andrew, this one is for you (and for the other WoW geeks reading this) – a 47 PC, 7 monitor setup for World of Warcraft. Insane. Such a waste of energy!
• Microsoft says the MSN Live Earth site broke all kinds of streaming records, but Dan Rayburn remains unimpressed and says “show me the money.”
• Boeing unveiled it’s brand new 787 Dreamliner this afternoon. It’s billed as “the most environmentally friendly” airplane ever built. I watched the live premiere over the web – too much talking, not enough plane!
• My computer has been running for 25 days now, almost exactly. Bad habit of mine, never turning my computer off! Monitors are set to auto-shutoff, of course.

Here are my weekly notes:

• Happy Canada Day everyone! A very impressive 140 years.
• I have five Pownce invites to give out. Leave a comment with your email or contact me if you want one. I’ll write about the site later…not that impressed.
• The Oilers traded captain Jason Smith as well as Joffrey Lupul to the Flyers for Joni Pitkanen and Geoff Sanderson earlier today. The Rangers picked up both Gomez and Drury, leaving Smyth as one of the few remaining “big” names available (as of right now at least). I don’t think he’s coming back to Edmonton though.
• Here is the iPhone disassembled.
• Another really cool “world statistics” visualization, this one with deaths broken down by cause.
• Open-air urinals are coming to Whyte Avenue. I doubt they will be very effective, but you never know.
• Rolling Stone article on the decline of the music industry.
• I decided to give Google Reader a try this week. I like that it works in Opera – it feels snappier than the NewsGator Online beta too.

Here are my weekly notes:

• Went to a restaurant called Bacon yesterday for Sharon’s birthday, and thankfully, they had bacon! It was really quite good. Afterward we went to a play called Shoe! which took place in an actual shoe store on Whyte Ave. It was okay, but I thought it was a little over the top at times. Then tonight was a dinner party – went very well, despite taking quite a while for prep and cleanup.
• The Spice Girls are getting back together! I was such a fan back in junior high. Apparently there won’t be a new album though, just a tour.
• No more pets on Air Canada flights. I guess this part of their efforts to cut costs? I think it’s a dumb idea.
• For the Edmonton folks – the overpass at Gateway and 23rd has run into financial troubles. Hopefully they still get it done, it is badly needed.
• From the yet-another-side-project department: I started a new blog this week. All Windows Media, all the time.
• I haven’t really had time to look at this yet, but Dave Winer is doing something with Twitter and podcasting. I will have to look into it.
• I think this is going to be a busy week…

Here are my weekly notes:

• Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there.
• The trip to Calgary was lots of fun (minus the rain all day today)! Nice to see some friends and their new houses. Kind of makes me feel old though, because we started coming up with ideas for renovations. I mean, we got excited about kitchen appliances and paint colors! Not to mention that we felt sleepy around 10 PM.
• This story exemplifies everything that is wrong with the legal system (granted I don’t think Canada’s legal system is quite as bad as the States).
• Here is the U of A ExpressNews article about Dr. Klawe, the honorary degree recipient from my convocation.
• Microsoft released Windows Home Server RC1 earlier this week – looks like a very interesting app indeed.
• I think there’s a bug in Facebook’s mobile status updates feature. It seems that every couple of days or so one of the people I have specified I’d like to recieve updates for is removed. I can add them again, except then someone else gets removed a few days later. Very annoying!

Here are my weekly notes:

• The rookie Lewis Hamilton won his first F1 race at the Canadian Grand Prix today. I called it! He’s had an amazing start to his career – 6 races, 6 podiums.
• So far the applications on Facebook have worked fairly well, but I knew it couldn’t last forever. I was surfing some profiles tonight and saw one of the applications had puked out a bunch of error text. It didn’t affect the page at all, it just looked ugly.
• Have you seen the logo for the London 2012 games? I think it sucks.
• Eric Rice has an interesting discussion on his blog about Google Maps StreetView and terrorism. My take: it doesn’t make terrorism any easier or more likely.
• This Matrix-inspired comic about Vista SP1 is really funny, but really geeky. That said, I absolutely love The Matrix, so I am not complaining!
• I absolutely love Rihanna’s new album, Good Girl Gone Bad. My favorite song at the moment is “Don’t Stop the Music” but the entire thing is just really enjoyable. Maybe I’ll write a review this week.
• Tuesday afternoon is my convocation – finally! I am not looking forward to the ceremony so much as I am looking forward to not having to deal with school anymore.

Can you believe it’s June already? Here are my weekly notes:

• For a computer geek, I sure have spent a lot of time outdoors this weekend! I walked about 32 blocks on Friday in the scorching heat with Sharon to check out Famoso (it was kinda like “Quizno’s for pizza”). Went to a BBQ/water fight yesterday. And today I spent a lot of time planting flowers.
• On that note, I have new-found appreciation for gardening. Not only is it time consuming and laborious, it’s expensive! Who knew flowers could cost so much?
• Last week I mentioned the giant wild pig, and wondered how it got so big. This week, the answer: it was raised on a farm and recently sold to a hunting preserve.
• Don’t you hate it when you order something from a fast food restaurant only to discover that it looks nothing like what you saw in the commercial? Here’s a collection of images showing just that.
• This news is a bit old, but apparently you can send an email to Canada Post and they’ll turn it into snail mail for you. The service is called EasyPost.
• Facebook Polls launched recently, and initially it blocked “restricted text” like MySpace, Orkut, and Friendster from being used in the poll. Kinda funny…a rep for the company said it was due to “outdated code” – riiiight.

Here are my weekly notes:

• My roommate is gone! Kim has travelled north to Inuvik for the summer. Miss ya Kim!
• I managed to lock my keys in the trunk of my car today. Not my finest moment. Turns out the tow truck guy that Honda arranged to come help couldn’t get the car unlocked! Apparently a special tool is required. Ah well…thanks Dickson for helping me with the spare key.
• Went to see Pirates 3 tonight – much better than the second one. It didn’t feel like a long movie, though it was. And man oh man did Keira ever look amazing…
• This giant pig is pretty amazing, but here’s my question: how did it get so large?
• For my fellow Coke addicts – the New York Times has a really interesting article analyzing the past, present, and future of the company.
• Research shows that infants have amazing capabilities that adults lack. That probably means there’s money to be made in helping adults unleash their inner-infant.
• I have a couple job interviews this week that I am really looking forward to. Hopefully they go well!