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The Abominator

Like a lot of folks, I’ve never been a fan of Dominic Hasek. Whether it’s his refusal last season to wear his shoulder pads and chest protector while riding the pine backing up other goalies with the Red Wings, or whether it’s his insane attitude...

My Love/Hate Relationship with Safari

Let’s face it. It’s sleek. It’s one of the fastest browsers out there for OS X. It syncs with my .Mac account, so I have a seamless browsing experience on all of my Macs. But, alas, I have a love/hate relationship with OS X Safari. I come back to it...

Content Management Systems: Will WordPress kill Drupal?

My friend Daniel Gibbons is shopping for a CMS for his new project. He’s posted interesting and in my view fairly accurate comments regarding Drupal and WordPress. I’m quite the fan of WordPress, have spent a little bit of time with Matt and the Automattic...

Best Commercial Ever

I used to have this on my network server somewhere (it’s about 3 years old) but this is something that needs to be shared with the world. This appears to be the same ensemble cast behind the Ned Buckle, Jr. File Clerk commercials, created by Ad Firm BENSIMON...

Ian Bell on FundFindr.tv

I keep forgetting to blog about this, or perhaps it’s because I’m ashamed of my wardrobe and bad hair day, but FindFindr did a far-ranging video interview with me on a rooftop in Gastown. I did my best to be interesting. They did their best in the editing...

Meet Me at the Web 2.0 Expo

Guess what? I’m a real person. I’ll be at the blogtropol.us lounge @ the Web 2.0 Expo for the next couple of days. Come and meet me and the boys from Something Simpler. No stick or puck required.

Is Quinn back IN?

Well, I’ve been predicting that Canucks General Manager Dave Nonis would be out and this afternoon at 4:45PM Pacific Time it happened. Facing the utter collapse of the Canucks as a team this summer Nonis was fiddling, chasing down yet another Swede on a team...

World Bank weighs in on ethanol

Finally, some common sense! On Friday in the Guardian World Bank head Robert Zoellick was quoted while speaking at an IMF meeting, saying that “in the US and Europe over the last year we have been focusing on the prices of gasoline at the pumps. While many worry...

The NHL Still Doesn’t Get the Web

Apparently, the NHL is recruiting “celebrities” (and I think we need to stop ascribing this title to everyone who has a TV show, given that these days practically everyone does have a TV show) to blog about the NHL during the playoffs. I guess, in some...

Google launches their app development framework

… and the web application hosting business cowers in fear. Now, my friends, people are discovering what Google’s REAL differentiated IP is..Application scaling is a real problem for the managed hosting business unless some software company comes up with a...