A new way to look at the clouds

Today while going through one of my inboxes I had an email from Live Labs with a preview code for Pivot, an experimental way to look at large amounts of data. As I sat looking at the email on my phone I found myself wondering what was Pivot.  I recalled requesting an invitation, but that …
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Cloud Gazing: First look at Foursquare

Last week I joined the social game site foursquare, I’ve been looking at it over the past few months wondering when it would come to Canada. So when I heard on Webnation that it had come to our fair city I joined up right away. Foursquare is a social gaming site where you virtually check-in …
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Finding a Solution for My Online Addiction…

In my last post I asked two questions (My Online addiction), today ‘I’m going to answer them. Why do I sign up to so many online sites? This is an easy question to answer, I sign up to some many sites because I’m looking for the next big thing. The next tool or service that …
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Shell Scripting

Tomorrow my Dad’s second book “Pro Bash Programming: Scripting the GNU/Linux Shell” is released.  If you are interested in Shell Scripts it’s probably a worthwhile buy. Even though I don’t write shell scripts I found his first book “Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach” fascinating to read. I’m looking forward to reading the new book. …
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