Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at 09:26PM I didn't quite mean to post this, but it was so interesting not to. Frogs. South America. Rescued. Allowed on plane in carryon luggage.
You can't beat that on a Tuesday night.
technorati tags: frogs, rainforest, rescue
Monday, June 5, 2006 at 06:18PM ‘No good travel photo album is complete without the token sunrise or sunset picture!’
How to Photograph Sunrises and Sunsets
Now that i've accepted a gig to do wedding photos, expanded my interest even more ;-) Plus, this is the first time I've found something good on Digg
technorati tags: sunsets, photography, tutorials, digg
Monday, June 5, 2006 at 01:01AM I think the little baby jesus is giggling right now.... as a lonely IT chick, it's flattering and such a good sign that this sort of conversation is finally happening....
Information Architecture > Messaging and Collaboration > Speaking Venusion - strategies for marketing technology to women
Is there such a thing as a gender-based approach to marketing technology products? Many marketing strategists believe this is indeed the case. When it comes to tech marketing approaches, they say, "what's sauce for the goose may not be sauce for the gander." That was a recurring motif at a recent conference on "Marketing to Women" held in April in Toronto. One of the high-profile speakers at the conference was Tony Rossi, director of sales and marketing at Epson Canada Ltd. Today, in this "Voices" exclusive, Rossi shares some of his insights on this topic with IT World Canada's Web editor Joaquim P. Menezes. He discusses why "marketing to women" is such a hot topic today - and one that tech companies can only ignore at their peril.
Friday, June 2, 2006 at 02:59PM Ahh - googled the meaning of the page rank....
Google Technology
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
Technorati Tags: google, page rank, wow.jules.ca
Friday, June 2, 2006 at 10:37AM Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 11:47AM … success.
For the first time in a month, i have 99.95% of everything I need to be productive at work. It took a few weeks of wandering around - asking the right questions, and lots of wrong ones too… and now i have almost all the tools on my desktop to troubleshoot just about anything that could come my way…
Having admin power on a laptop makes the little baby jesus smile. Now i’m out of the IE nightmare of 1000 windows.
(It’s very similar to House of 1000 Corpses, but worse.)
I’ve got headphones, pandora.com and flock. Yes. All is right with the world.
Bring on the challenges!!! I’ve put up my smiley face, and to be honest, folks aren’t getting it. Everyone keeps asking if it’s my birthday ;-) Ehh, they will get the hang of it soon.
;-)
technorati tags: productivity, flock, pandora, house of 1000 Corpses
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 07:11PM For the past 3 days, breathing outside has been like trying to sleep with your head under the covers. Do it for too long, and my legs feel all tingley. My head feels all cottony.Now, thunder has been chasing its tail all across the city, but has yet to produce a single drop of rain to wash away the nasty smog blanket. I'm pretty sure the smog is keeping the rain away. Visions of Regensis, and uber-strong acid rain keep flickering through my head.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 11:52AM Sheesh - I've been reading the kerfuffle over the legal ownership of the term web 2.0,a nd how it can be used (or not) in conferences. Tim O'Reilly and CMP have certainly stirred the blogo-pot on this one…. or, perhaps it's something else…
There once was a time when you could make a business decision, and not have the rest of the world reading over your shoulder. The developments of web 2.0 and the kazillion of bloggers throughout the world have put a magnifying glass on everything that remotely smells like it could have an impact on them. And what's worse, people have NO PROBLEM spouting off on anything vaguely controvercial, regardless of what it is. What may be the kicker tho, is the louder people spout, the less they really know about the content, the situation or the background. Funny, that.
Maybe we don't need more collaboration. Maybe we need more education. More critical thinking, not personal criticism.
Reading what some of the posters had to say about Tim made me embarassed to be a blogger.
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 10:18PM wow... mark goldberg hits the nail on the head... and i have to admit, i'm quite guilty of the Iridium Syndrome.... (yes, I have a logitech digital pen)
Telecom Trends
the Iridium syndrome: doing stuff because you can, regardless of the merits of the business case.
Technorati Tags: Iridium Syndrome, logitech, digital pen
Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 01:07PM Just because i was a bit frustrated with switching between browsers to do nifty blog posting, i stumbled upon Performancing... and it actually works. sheesh!
Performancing for Firefox | Performancing.com
Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right within Firefox * Works with all major blog software * Easy WYSIWYG Editing * Trackback, Technorati and Del.icio.us support
Technorati Tags: performancing blogging
Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 09:16AM Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 02:01PM ... ok - so i'm working on a project that would see one appliance that can do IPTV, voice and internet. This appliance would go into a multi dweller building - like a condo or a hotel and provide all services to the suites.
Is there such a beast? Oh yah, it's also got to be able to handle the accounting and billing as well - and it's got to make use of existing wiring in the building ;-)
I poked at nortel, and i'm sure cisco has something.... but finding details on the cisco site is a pain in the ass.
Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 09:47AM It is as a soldier that we know her now, Canada’s first female combat casualty since World War II, killed — in an ambush — dying instantly on the field during a protracted firefight in Kandahar.
TheStar.com - So much more than a soldier
I’ve been following the story of Captain Nichola Goddard, who was slain in combat on May 17. The canadian people lowered flags last weekend, there’s been nary a day in the past week that her name or images haven’t been on the front page of all daily publications in canada… and it reminds me of a michael moore film, of mothers crying over lost children. And my brow furrows. SO much outrage, so much sadness, so much surprise - “how could something like this happen?” “He/she was such a good person”….
Um….. I have one question - what the heck did you think was going to happen? You decide to become a soldier, you go to war, you get shot, perhaps you are injured seriously and then you die. It shouldn’t be a surprise ending. There shouldn’t be shock and disbelief. If you or your child make the conscious decision to take up arms and shoot people, then logically, the obvious and reasonable outcome is that you will in all liklihood become a casualty as well. There cannot be any shred of naivity in this. It’s quite cut and dried.
I have reasonable respect for folks who can make that decision; to join the military; but don’t come crying when the ending is so very obvious. Everyone is accountable for their decisions. I understand why governments go to war, to protect their assets and investments. I don’t understand why people go to war. Did you really think you were going to get your college degree in electronics for free? Not a good trade off, if you aren’t areound to enjoy your degree. Might as well go to vegas to get your scholarship - the odds of surviving are better.
[end rant]
Imagine, if people decided to STOP enlisting. All around the world, no more people for governments to pour into areas that they wanted to “conquer” under the guise of “humanitarianism”. I’m now to the point that I have no confidence in any government in the world that they can be responsible with a military, that they are accountable for the lives that they sacrifice in the name of “freedom and peace”.
Imagine, if everyone decided to stop “fighting for peace”. And don’t even get me started on the idiocy of Tim Horton’s going to Kandahar. Simple bullshit.
If there is ONE casualty from those gas-mask toting coffee dollies, I don’t want to hear about it. Although it would be a tragedy, it will NOT be a surprise, or a shock. It’s a greater shock and tragedy, when a homeless person freezes to death; anonymously, and every day.
technorati tags: military, Kandahar, nichola goddard, soldier, female
Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 08:46AM …. so said to me by my elderly italian cabbie last night ;-)
I got to sit in the front seat from the Danforth to Queens Quay.
Was out with amazing, beautiful women last night for bevvies and a brilliant dinner at 7 Numbers. Laughter, Sangria, lemoncela magic… and sooo much food. The waitstaff felt like long lost friends, the bartender kept the sangria cold, and the canolli was perfect…. When i rolled home, it was all i could do to get on comfy jammies ;-)
And one other new thing - i was suitably escored on not 1, but 2 subway rides! Yikes!
Friday, May 26, 2006 at 08:45PM ... wow.
So, I've migrated from using the web interface at squarespace to using the blog interface of Flock, and since flock does the fancy technorati tags options, and i've actually used the tags options, the amount of traffic to this site has increased by 20% in the past week! Holy!
Who knew?!?! It's stunning. Brilliant. Mind you, the flexibility is better with swuarespace, but the tagging in flock still makes me choose flock for the posting and such... i can clean up the accessories with the squarespace web interface...
Hmmm... if i didn't know better, i would think that flock might replace my firefox... i know, crazy talk, but look at me - 2 browsers open for 2 different applications.
;-)
technorati tags: flock, squarespace, technorati, browser wars, blog
Friday, May 26, 2006 at 07:15AM Rum and Rhubarb Compote Recipe #169864
This quick and easy microwave recipe is great with frozen or plain yogurt, spooned over cottage cheese and even delicious on French toast. Use fruit juice in place of rum if desired. Source: Foodland Ontario
4 cups trimmed rhubarb, chopped into 1-inch pieces (about 1 1/2 lbs)
2/3 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons rum
1 teaspoon orange rind, finely grated
4-6 servings 2 1/2 cups
26 minutes 20 mins prep
1. In an 8-cup microwaveable dish, combine rhubarb, sugar, 2 tbsp of the rum and orange rind.
2. Cover and microwave on high for 5 to 6 minutes, stir gently once, cook until rhubarb is tender.
3. Stir in remaining rum.
4. Let cool (mixture will thicken).
5. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Rum And Rhubarb Compote Recipe
technorati tags: rum, rhubarb, alliteration, ompote, diversions
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 07:30PM ... and not just a wee bit e-vil... Massively so....
How can I be short of time - i'm only on day 12!!! But i'm in the thick of it now... ;-)
The next 10 weeks are going to go VERY fast.
technorati tags: work, stress, short weeks
Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 07:15PM ... a lovely thing happened tonight... i was asked to be the photogapher at a wedding...
My first thought - panic, of course ;-)
I think i'm the kind of photographer who gets lucky, so my self confidence in having to "perform under pressure" is pretty low ;-) Now, don't get me wrong, i'm thrilled at my abilities, and every so often, i utterly freak out with some of the successes i've had, but to have to be on my game, for such an important occasion has me a little on edge ;-)
So, i've suggested the master... luxography.ca and i can easily be the fre range chicken with the funny big camera ;-)
technorati tags: photography, weddings, stress, honour, luxography
Monday, May 22, 2006 at 09:49PM Monday, May 22, 2006 at 08:20PM … and it’s hard to tell if it’s been a success yet…. the weather up north wasn’t entirely playing fair… although, to give credit where credit is due, saturday night was a lovely night for fireworks ;-)
We managed to get a break in the weather on saturday aft, and the chicklets managed to cajole their old man into letting them try out their new inflatable sea-doo units…. and i was amazed, they lasted in the frigid water for about 15 minutes. ;-)
Sunday, we woke to wind, and more wind, and a smattering of rain. The temperature plummeted. The sun came out. The rain came out. It was a cornucopia of weather. At one point, the sun came out so hard, and the wind stopped, and everything that was wet, immediately started steaming. It was an amazing, humid scene. For 9 minutes. Then the rain came back ;-)
Then the power went out. Repeated attempts to assess the damage (by calling the automated message on Ontario Hydro’s Info line) only prolonged the uncertainty. First 4 pm, then 5 pm, then 6 pm, then 6:30, then 8 pm. At 6:30, we hitailed it back to the southern country. Home of wendy’s chilli-cheeze baked potatoes and the famous bacon mushroom melt.
Chicklets schnuggled into the “big bed” and watched movies while munching on salty treats. By midnight they were snoring.
And now - it’s 8:30 - and amazingly enough, i am the only one awake. Holy.
Of course, the sun is now shining.
technorati tags: may 24 weekend, 6 mile lake, rain, cottage, muskoka
