This is my favourite single piece of clothing. It’s been a top seller at Mountain Equipment Coop for years.
Just about everyone else in Canada owns at least one. (I have four.)
MEC check fleece top – my #4
I also want to recommend my new MEC Hydrofoil Jacket: C$99 (US$88). It’s the best I’ve ever owned.
MEC Hydrofoil Jacket (Men’s) – Mountain Equipment Co-op
Yahoo! is doing something brave. And smart.
They are shutting down Yahoo Photos, the biggest host on the web with 2 billion pics. It’s crappy.
The service will be shut down in favor of the newer and more social Flickr, which they acquired in March of 2005. …
Yahoo is not forcing transition to Flickr – instead, users are being given the option of choosing among a number of top photo sharing sites.
If you are a current Yahoo! Photos user, you will be given the option to export all your photos into Flickr (a one-click process) or you will be able to export to a few other services such as Photobucket, Snapfish, Kodak Gallery or Shutterfly. …
Breaking: Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr
source – where else?
Obviously everything on your computer should be backed up to the internet when you are on-line.
How is it we do not have this already?
A new start-up called Mozy is getting big buzz now that G.E. just signed a huge contract with them.
How It Works
1. Sign up for an account. …
2. Download and install software. …
3. Select files to be backed up. …
What You Get
* 2GB of free, secure storage (Or go Unlimited for $4.95/month!) …
Alternatives to Mozy
* Burn a new CD or DVD every Sunday night and store them at your brother-in-law’s office.
* Pay $200/year for an online backup service that uses old, mediocre software.
* Buy a $200 external hard drive and hope your office doesn’t burn down.
* Do nothing and don’t worry about backup. (We suggest closing your eyes, plugging your ears and repeating “I’m in my happy place, I’m in my happy place.”)
* Run a cron job of rsync, gzip and mcrypt piped over ssh to your friend’s server over his DSL line.Of course, we think Mozy is the best and easiest solution to the backup problem!
I’ve signed-up to try it. But they have no Mac version as yet. UPDATE: Mac version just released.
I love Amazon.com, but it lacks some really basic features. For example:
I like certain authors (William Gibson, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, etc.). I’ll basically buy every new book from about 7-10 different authors. Give me a better way to track new books from a favorite author.
At one point in the past I created Amazon email alerts for new books from a few specific authors, but then you started sending me emails for “related” authors. As far as I could tell, there was no way to get alerts about new books without getting the unwanted “you might also like this author” emails. If you let me watch specific authors, I’d buy the new John Brockman book from Amazon instead of stumbling across the book in a bookstore.
While you’re at it, provide an RSS feed for that “new books by this author” info instead of as an email.
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO » Five tweaks Amazon needs to make
The Amazon search function is poor, has always been poor, and seems never to improve.
Why not use Google?
I calculate these “biscuits” cost about US$11 each.
But they are DELICIOUS.
Especially the dark chocolate: Magnifique!
Le Petit Ecolier – Milk Chocolate (5.3 Ounce) by igourmet.com
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Weary of re-gluing tiny felt pads on the bottom of chair legs, the Masons finally resorted to tennis balls.
This works perfectly.
I love the Tim Hortons coffee franchise as does most everyone:
Canadian Business magazine has twice named Tim Hortons as the best-managed brand in Canada (in 2004 and 2005).
But I often pass them by as they are simply too crowded in Calgary. Line-ups of 25 caffeine addicts are not unusual.
Then, a miracle.
The newest franchise opened in Calgary over Easter. No street signage had yet been mounted.
I had a double double, the Sun and 11 employees to myself in an empty cafe.
I love WordPress, the software that runs this blog.
Just set up a new blog for a friend. Only US$15 / year including the domain name.
Sweet!
ANYONE can afford that for their own website.
One complaint. When I went to purchase the $15 domain name, the process was a nightmare.
This is the evil page:
Perhaps it works on a Windoze machine and IE, but it was near impossible for me to get the confusing process to work on a Mac using Safari, Opera and Firefox browsers.
I will complain to Matt, the front man for WordPress.
I rarely bother to carry my pump. This would solve the problem.
Always nice to see a kid take an idea from school and turn it into a viable product. In this case Philip Robinson came up with the idea of hiding a bicycle pump in the seat bike, saving weight by using the post as the outer wall for the pump. Ingenius. Really.
Get Outdoors – BioLogic ZorinPump: The Seat That Is A Pump – Getoutdoors.com Outdoor Blog
Why isn’t this my Provincial song?
Click PLAY or watch the Gordon Lightfoot classic on YouTube.
Younguns no doubt prefer the Paul Brandt song of the same name. (It’s not a remake, actually.) He’s actually Albertan.
DANG IT, Brandt’s commercial video is not yet on YouTube. Someone correct that omission.
Rick McCharles 