Peta
From the Nimble Theory Blog
It's pretty often that when I hear of PETA being mentioned, it's in a kind of dismissive and condescending way. Of course, you could just watch the video.
Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org.
Filed under: | nimbletheory | geeky | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 |
International Backup Awareness Day
From the Coding Horror Blog
You may notice that commenting is currently disabled, and many old Coding Horror posts are missing images. That's because, sometime early on Friday, the server this blog is hosted on suffered catastrophic data loss.
Here's what happened:
The server experienced routine hard drive failure.
Because of the hard drive f
Filed under: | geeky | codinghorror | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 |
Microformats: Boon or Bane?
From the Coding Horror Blog
I recently added microformat support to the free public CVs at careers.stackoverflow.com by popular demand.
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
The official microformat "elevator pitch" tells us noth
Filed under: | geeky | codinghorror | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 |
Why thank you! I would be happy to be there!
From the blog of Tim Scammell
I received a call this afternoon from a young lady from NB Liquor inviting me to a press conference on Friday morning. It will be at the Centennial Building downtown.As you may have guessed the topic is the proposed future of the York Street Station. MLAs Rick Miles and Greg Byrne will be there
Filed under: | Fredericton | Marysville | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 |
Sendside Salesforce Appexchange 5 Star Review.
From the Nimble Theory Blog
OK, I'm excited. Sendside's integrated with Salesforce CRM and we're now available on Salesforce's Appexchange Marketplace for any business using Salesforce.com. And... we've received our first review, a stunningly well written comment from one of our clients, Vetrazzo, a green manufacturer of high-end recycled glass surface
Filed under: | nimbletheory | geeky | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 |
Rymdreglage - 8-bit trip
From the page: "1500 hours of moving legobricks and take photos of them."
Filed under: | stumbleupon | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 |
The Interview With The Programmer
From the Coding Horror Blog
If the internet has perfected anything, it's the art of the crappy, phoned-in, half-assed email "interview". For all those who have bemoaned the often pathetic state of internet journalism, when it comes to interviews, you're largely correct. The purpose of most of these interviews is quick and dirty content filler with semi
Filed under: | geeky | codinghorror | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 |
Why Fredericton should never get a hybrid transit bus
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog
You keep hearing of more progressive cities getting hybrid transit buses. Maybe Fredericton should get some too? Lets first run some numbers:
Cost of a bus: $400,000 for a regular one, $600,000 for a hybrid.
As with hybrid cars, you need to change the batteries every 6 years. As Fredericton keep
Filed under: | Fredericton | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 |
Canadian TV providers are ripping us off with PVR fees
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog
Recently there has been a lot of talk about broadcast reform in Canada. Heres another argument as to why we need legislation to be more consumer-friendly:
A Personal Video Recorder (PVR, also known as a DVR) can be rented from $20-25/month, depending on your provider (Rogers $24.95, BellTV $20). In the US
Filed under: | Fredericton | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 |
City of Fredericton web site double-fail
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog
Q:Whats worse than not having information posted on a website?
A:Having it up on the site, but not linking to it so it cant be found.
Last week, I posted an article about how the City of Fredericton doesnt post a lot of information on its website. Imagine my surprise when I Googled something com
Filed under: | Fredericton | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 |
A quick review of the proposed Fredericton Transit Garage
Seen on Lamespotting Fredericton Blog
The Dillon Consulting Transit Report suggested a new garage for Fredericton Transit as the current one isnt big enough and is no longer suitable. Last week, city council agreed to spend $5.2 million on a new one.
Some might think that $5.2 million is a lot, but compare it to Saint John who recently spent $23.
Filed under: | Fredericton | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 |
2010 - Time to Stop Being Encouraged
From Will it Change You Blog
credit: jaeWALK
Ok so today while I was living the hard life (sitting in Starbucks, looking out over the ocean listening to Jazz WHAMMY!) I came to a great decision about 2010.
Last year I think I read more encouraging posts, quotes, books stories than anyone around. Actually thats probably n
Filed under: | change | business | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 |
Double Header!
From the blog of Tim Scammell
Filed under: | Fredericton | Marysville | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 |
The State of Solid State Hard Drives
From the Coding Horror Blog
I've seen a lot of people play The Computer Performance Shell Game poorly. They overinvest in a fancy CPU, while pairing it with limited memory, a plain jane hard drive, or a generic video card. For most users, that fire-breathing quad-core CPU is sitting around twiddling its virtual thumbs most of the time. Computer perform
Filed under: | geeky | codinghorror | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 |
For any remaining IE6 users...
From the Nimble Theory Blog
Hi, if you are coming to this site via Internet Explorer 6, you might not be getting the best experience possible. Honestly, I can't even begin to think about what your entire experience on the internet must be like? (...probably like riding a bike on the highway while cars blow by you on their way to Costco to get gallons o
Filed under: | nimbletheory | geeky | general
| Comments (?) | Links | Trackbacks | Posted: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 |
