Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
I’m slowly moving toward a completely decentralized way of working. I wrote earlier about migrating all my email to GMail and having access anywhere. I also use Google Docs for school projects and I’ve recently been trying out Microsoft Office Live. It’s a really decent product I hope to make more use of in the [...]
This last week I spent a good portion of my free time deliberating over new designs for my business cards and flyers.
The biggest complaint my customers have had is finding the cafe! Visibility is pretty limited so I chose to include a map on both the business cards and the flyers. I originally had a [...]
Several months ago the U of A bought an on-demand printing press that can churn out books at almost 2 per minute.
Now I’m reading in Wired that Archive.org has over 350,000 books which have been scanned! They will soon be offering the printing of books for $10 plus $0.01 per page. Not too shabby for [...]
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Earlier I wrote about how the school of business here at the University of Alberta is requiring us to use FrontPage for some assignments.
I arranged to meet the program coordinator in his office during his scheduled office hours but when I arrived his door was locked and he wasn’t around. So I went and talked [...]
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Google’s Lat Long Blog has posted an update and a video about users from the US, Australia, and New Zealand, being able to now edit Google maps on the fly like a Wiki. It looks awesome.
Unfortunately, being the poor ignored Canadian that I am, Google has chosen to overlook their largest trading partner and [...]