Writing Archive

Jaded Pixel is a Startup to Watch…

In this week’s hardcopy edition of the Ottawa Business Journal, jaded Pixel is profiled as one of Ottawa’s Startups to Watch. Unfortunately, the article won’t be on their website until Wednesday, however at the bottom of their front page there is a reader poll where people can vote for their favourite startup in terms [...]

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Die Spammers…

I got this in my email this morning. I hate spam! I specifically hate this type of image spam since it can make it through the gmail spam filters. What pissed me of the most about this though was the accompanying text. “Dont click, type (removed URL) into your browser”. Not only do they send [...]

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From rock and rollers to baby strollers.

Jess and I were in NYC this past weekend to pick up our wedding bands.  During one of our standard walks around Mahattan we passed by the Odeon Cafeteria.  In it’s hayday, the Odeon was where the SNL crew, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol all hung out. It was open all night and was fuelled [...]

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Patent for the Yoda figure

I recently came across a site that makes good use of the Google Patent Search.  The Ironic Sans Blog has a cool post of celebrity patents. The coolest being the Yoda figuring patent by George Lucas.

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2007? I was just getting used to 2006

So December was a right off for me as far as blogging goes. The month just flew by and now that I am looking up its January 2nd.  I had big plans about bloggin over xmas, and posting some great shots of Victoria BC.  But when the time came, I chose to just take it [...]

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