Glencoe in The News....

Curious....

London Free Press - City & Region - Small-town mayor heads AMO

Doug Reycraft -- the mayor of Southwest Middlesex who grew up in Glencoe where he still lives -- has been acclaimed president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO).

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Google GMAIL Error Code 700

OK - I give.

I'm ready to take a hostage.

Error Code 700 on anything I try to delete or mark as spam.

My head is hurting. Please take away the problem.

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GMAIL ERROR

GMAIL ERROR
Originally uploaded by julebule.

Ok - what is the deal? 3 hours of Gmail errors when trying to delete messages?

I give.

Summer and Water

Summer and Water
Originally uploaded by julebule.

He quietly surveys the rapids. Judging the waves, the rocks and the water.
And then he decides.
And sits down on a towel.
To wait.

Soothing Repetition...

... 5 days in the city, 2 days on the lake.  Rinse laundry and repeat.
:-)

There's something to be said about the comfort of repetition in the summer... knowing where you will likely be every 5 days, and planning accordingly.  It certainly makes the summer go by quickly. I'm thrilled that we are are now only 800 odd hours away from moving... almost to the country. Now we can kick things into high gear, finances, lawyerly things, and actuall shopping.




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Peaceful Watcher

Flickr: Photos from julebule

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Interesting local celebrity gossip....

Ok - mebbe not so local, and on a different branch of the celebrity tree... but still...

The Shreveport Times

Scott Muscutt still arrives at the office before the sun peeks over the eastern sky. Two months after the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs' 2005-06 season ended, and more than three months until the next one begins, the head coach is as busy as ever.

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Discussing the Future of Wireless Handhelds...

I spent an interesting afternoon yesterday meeting with a fellow who designs wireless handheld devices. Nick Fothergill from Huveur, is in Canada for a brief stint to gather research on what Canadians are thinking about when it comes to what they want in a wireless device. Huveur is a design shop in Taiwan that makes interesting prototypes that other interesting tech company's pick up when the R&D is high.

We had an outstanding conversation about the melding of entertainment and business applications, and the woefully unentertaining aspects of the Blackberry… how handhelds should be able to jump across different types of networks, and how a battery has to live for a LONG time ;-)

I think ideally, the wireless handheld would be a tricked out PSP-like device, but with all the bells and whistles that a blackberry has. Of course, don't forget the camera. And Bluetooth for the phone feature… And the last must have - it needs to work as a touch screen, and have a windows-y OS so that you can actually work on it. I want a tablet, shrunk a bit, on steroids. Holy.

We also talked about the challenges of wifi meshes, especially when Canada is just starting to come up to speed, and what IMS is going to do to the wireless world we live in now. I'm looking forward to seeing what sorts of interesting new devices can be attributed to the smarties at Huveur in the future….

It was quite an amazing lunch. Thank Nick!! And good luck with your tour!!


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A Wireless Handheld Discussion...

Yesterday I had a "time well spent" lunch meeting, being interviewed by a fellow who designs wireless handhelds.... read more...

Chair with Home Office Potential

Chair with Home Office Potential
Originally uploaded by julebule.

Can't you just see yourself..

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Originally uploaded by julebule.

Sweet Goodness.. If you are looking for something novel to read this summer, and you like reading about Toronto, and you like a bit of technology in your reads, andyou don't mind a wee bit of strangeness, this could be your book. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town...

And then, when you've read it, read this - it parallels the technical aspects of the novel.
Free, Collaborative Wifi Network Meshes. Not just fiction any more.

So there.


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Update on Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 08:00AM by jules

Oh!  A very good FON website!!!

Update on Thursday, July 20, 2006 at 06:53PM by jules

Holy Moly - Cory Doctorow is a good Ontario kid (with a blog!!!)

Not Just Fiction...

If you are looking for something to pique your interest, you HAVE to check out "A Rain of Frogs".
It's a welcome diversion from telco.

A Rain of Frogs: The butterfly and the lamp

Near sunset, a butterfly was happily flitting in the last rays of the sun before retiring for the evening when he spotted a pretty young butterfly behaving in a most peculiar matter. He watched as she would fly about a bright lantern until the candle inside would eventually dim, then frantically make a dash for the next brightest lantern. About this lantern she would loop and swoop till it in turn dimmed. She would repeat her unusual flight over and over. Intent on discovering the nature of her strange actions, he approached her.

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Fireworks on the beach

  in case you are wondering, the photo is tilted, not YOU.

Flickr: Photos from julebule

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HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!

Flickr: Photos from julebule

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The Dog Gets All My Good Stuff...

... last week I decided i was going to make a few changes.  Lifestyle changes, healthy eating changes... mind you, I didn't really let the Wiz in on this... it just happened.....

I'm off the 1/2& 1/2, cutting back on dinner portions... you know the routine.

It wasn't till this morning, and the Wiz was looking for cream for his coffee...

Me: Oh - sorry, we are off the 1/2 and 1/2 - i gave the last of it to the dog the other day so I wouldn't be tempted.  Juice of the Devil.

Him: Oh - all the good stuff goes to the dog. Everything i want gets handed to the dog.. what happened to the left over chicken....?

Me: Oh. Sorry.

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Accountability on the Internet

An interesting, yet bizarre article on what happens when a girl meets a boy on the internet....

What's more surprising is the lawsuit (of course, it's not surprising).

Is this all simply a symptom of the greater parental problem with the current generation, or is this finally the realization that the internet is a magnifying glass for all the potential badness that is in children's lives - badness has not changed, or grown in the past 50 years, but now, with the internet, we can see it clearly? My gut is on on option 1. Option 2 seems like such a knee jerk reaction.

Despite the repetition of warnings of knowing what your kids are doing on line, the internet is akin to a car. If you aren't paying attention, if you aren't trained, if you aren't being aware and cautious, you can easily come to a painful end. Just like a car, the internet provides freedom, learning, adventures, entertainment, a social link to the rest of your peer group. Just like a car, if you are are foolish and showing off, or being irresponsible, you are going to be in trouble. If you are 14, you wouldn't be in a car on your own, and the same goes for the internet. Parents need to pay attention.


A Lesson for Parents on 'MySpace Madness' - New York Times

AFTER more than a year of hand-wringing, parental concern and political posturing over the safety of children from predators at MySpace.com, a 14-year-old girl and her mother are seeking $30 million in damages because they say that a 19-year-old man who met the teenager on the site assaulted her.

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A Worthy Home Office Chair

chair_432.vnt
Originally uploaded by julebule.

Can't you just see yourself curled up in this puppy, on a 3 hour conference call discussing the fasibility of managed security?

Blogging Negligence...

... you read that fast and thought it was "Blogging Negligee", didn't you?
Alas, no negligee for me, just negligence. I find that when i have time to do things, I never do them, and when i am uber-busy, that's when i want to write the most.  I am the free-time procrastinator.  Or perhaps it's just that more ideas come to me when i'm busy, than when i'm not?

I should be busy, what with 1113 hours left until the move to the country, and with knowing the ropes in the new gig.  I'm more organized, I'll admit. Better structured, time available for planning and being proactive, rather than running in straight reactive mode.  It's refreshing, but at the same time, feels like i am living in the Old South, where things are slower, and people are relaxed.

Feelings like i should have a Mint Julip and sit by the bayou.


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One Web Day...

Quite a web 2.0 idea... i'm liking it...

OneWebDay

The mission of OneWebDay is to create, maintain, advance, and promote a global day to celebrate online life: September 22, 2006

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Sisters

Sisters
Originally uploaded by Sara Lou.

No time to write, so just time to photoblog today ;-)