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Updates, this that and those other things…

July 29, 2013 colin 1 Comment

Nothing like staying awake several hours in the night worried about the fact that two of your main websites are…

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Shaming the forum/comment referral spammers – chapter 1

February 23, 2013 colin

Forum spam and website defacement in the form of comment/blog/forum unsolicited shills and ads cost webmasters and editors millions of…

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Growing it for a cause – Movember

November 2, 2012 colin

Here is a photo of my UVic – Systems Movember team – feel free to help the cause against cancer…

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Summer Food Fun and Drink 15 Life in the now lane

July 29, 2010 colin 1 Comment

One of the neat things about being over 40 – and being fairly hip to what is hot and happening…

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Summer Food Fun and Drink 14 Six years later and a re-launch

July 28, 2010 colin

Who is writing a book on global microfinance for Bloomsbury, puzzle maker for the New York Times op-ed section, travel…

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Website issues are temporary – stay tuned.

June 8, 2010 colin

I am currently bouncing web requests for dxer.ca and coffeecrew.com over here because of technical issues at my ISP –…

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Rites of Spring #28 Technology of our undoing – broadband over power lines

May 29, 2010 colin

My day job is in multi-media design, modernization, implementation and blah, blah, blah… …in the educational environment. In my case…

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Google Rant #1 – don’t steal my books Mister Google

January 24, 2010 colin

My first thought is… If I created a series of Google rants… Would google index them? Well. Let’s see. Anyway.…

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Summer Food Fun and Drink Chapter 11 The downside of twitter

July 11, 2009 colin 2 Comments

Here’s the thing. If I could sprout an extra lobe in my brain and actually incur the ability to distill…

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Spring into birdsong – why we do not twitter

April 19, 2009 colin 3 Comments

I embrace technology. Heck, I have been doing this for too many years. When I first started monkeying around on…

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