This episode I was on talking about back to school items. Products featured include: Panasonic Toaster Oven, Toshiba Laptop, HP Laptop, macbook, Samsung Cell Phone, Motorola Cell Phone, HP Camera
Category Archives: The Life and Times
What’s on the bookshelf
A few years ago, my friends Bessie and Christian gave me Delicious Library for my birthday. It’s a program that uses your iSite (or other Web cam, I guess) to catalouge all your DVDs, books, CDs and I think toys now too.
I’ve been using it ever since and I’ve recently published my shelf to the Web. It’s not the entire listing, but it has the bulk of my library. Check it out here.
Raptors + TSN2 + Rogers = sucky big time
So TSN launched a new network aptly called TSN2 like its brethern in the United States, ESPN. And this year TSN2 will be carrying 25 Raptors games. Now about the only thing I watch on either TSN or SportsNet is baseball and Raptors and since I have yet to forgive Bell for how horribly they treated me as a student I am with Rogers.
The problem here is Rogers and TSN2 don’t have an agreement yet. It all relates around how much money Rogers would pay TSN2 per subscriber. MLSE is again, proving itself to be less than amicable to the fans. In this situation they decided to ink a deal that would see better financial returns to them than their games viewed by as many fans. Continue reading
Support knowledge
Wikipedia is a free online multi-lingual encyclopedia founded in March 2009 (it was called nupedia then and was only in English). Wikipedia is editable by anyone and in addition to contributing to exisiting entries, users can create entirely new ones.
Consider this: if you wanted to search a printed encyclopedia for information on the 2008 presidential election, you would be almost guaranteed not to find anything. An online encyclopedia, not editable by users … like encyclopedia.com would return entries like “presidential records act” and unrelated material.
However, a search on Wikipedia.org would return a page with information the campaign of both Obama and McCain, what the issues of the day was, election controversies and many other topics relating to the campaign.
Wikipedia.org is free. Access to knowledge is an extremely empowering opportunity and it’s an important cause to support.
Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales said it best:
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”
I encourage you to donate $1, $5, $10, $30 or more to this worthwhile cause.
Tim Sanders, coming to Centennial … just not yet
Some of you knew that Tim Sanders was going to be coming to Centennial to speak tomorrow – I was very excited about this, but according to his tour coordinator, there was a mix-up about the starting time for his first speaking engagement that day. He thought it was at 9 a.m. and ours was at 1 p.m. – turns out it’s at noon (or something similar).
Life happens, though, so no worries. He will be back in town on November 10th and will return to Centennial then.
Here’s a video of Tim in action – well worth the time it takes to view.
Tim Sanders preview reel from Tim Sanders on Vimeo.