Here are my weekly notes:

• 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?

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• 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.

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• 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…

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• 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.