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Jack Link’s Jerky Experience
So, I’ve been a long time Jerky fan, but recently, I bought some Jack Link’s Jerky and I was bummed. It looked and tasted like rubber with beef flavouring. Outraged that I spent ten dollars for one...
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Job Titles
So, I know job titles don’t really matter in some respects, but in the more traditional job market, it can have a huge effect on your potential career progression. Recently, I had a little back and...
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Laptop Cooling
Why don’t laptop docks have included cooling fans/pads for the laptops? There are some HP laptops at work that keep randomly shutting down, and it appears to be from a heat issue, as both machines...
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Smartphones Too Difficult
One issue that recently came up in my life is how complex smartphones can be, and how many users aren’t really ready for the learning curve. For the longest time, cell phones were just to make phone...
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Cyanogen Mod 7
So, I have tried twice before to install a custom firmware onto my phone. The last time, I almost made my phone unusable, but after hours of work, I was able to get it back to the stock firmware....
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F-35s Scrapped
So, my cousin, Mark, tagged me on Facebook in regards to a link on the National Post about the F-35 purchase being scrapped. It got me ranting and raving a bit, so I decided to collect those thoughts a...
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Locked Out of My Apartment
So, I’ve been living in Georgetown for over a month now, and I’ve never needed to unlock the exterior door. It remained unlocked the entire time, and so I never needed to test that key. Unfortunately,...
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Fan Expo Canada Adds Sports
Last year was my first year at Fan Expo Canada in Toronto, and it is looking like it might have been my best opportunity to go, as this year they have added Sports Celebrities to their roster. Yes, Fan...
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Organizing Text Messages
One thing that bothers me about text messaging is how it ends up being a system more like instant messaging rather than short e-mails. I can label an e-mail, mark it as important, or otherwise make it...
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Living in Georgetown
I have lived in Georgetown for around five months now, and I wanted to give a quick update on my thoughts regarding the town. Warning, this is a bit of a rant. Transit First off, I want to say how dumb...
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Kids Can’t Use Computers
There is an amazing post from a few weeks back on Coding 2 Learn and it is entitled, Kids Can’t Use Computers… And This Is Why It Should Worry You, and it discusses some things I’ve known for a while,...
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Halton Hills Community Energy Plan Rant
So a little while back, it looked like the city that I live in was interested in the opinions of the people living here and set up an IdeaScale board for submissions relating to a Halton Hills...
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Working From Home is Hard
People really don’t understand how difficult it is to work remotely. My schedule is flexible. I am not trying to put in a set amount of time per day, or meet any specific metrics, and as such, most of...
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BBM for Android: Lame
The only person in my life that I know has a Blackberry phone is my niece, and I found out today that she doesn’t have a data plan, and thus can’t use BBM. Thankfully, a friend of mine installed BBM on...
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Doctor Who 50th Anniversary and Cineplex
The 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who is coming up in less than a month, and when I had heard that they were going to simulcast the episode in 3D in certain theatres, I was super excited. One such theatre...
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100 Percent Wind Powered Denmark
Denmark is making the news today because it has had a day where its wind power energy production was higher than its total usage (Source: Energy Transition). As a country, they are looking to have one...
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Christmas Stress
I know Christmas is not supposed to be all about the money, but I also feel like it is hard to give things to people that they want without it. We live in a consumer based world, and how do you go into...
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Saving For a House
In the GTA, house prices have been going up by between 3% and 13% per year. An average home in the GTA is now $380,453. Annie and I would love to buy a house, but we don’t currently have any savings,...
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Does Creating Employment Really Matter?
This post is a bit of a rant, and is a bit of a brain dump. You’ve been warned. I’ve been thinking about the changes we are experiencing in modern first-world countries especially. I have been keeping...
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Starter and Pick and Pay TV Options Suck
With Netflix charging $8 per month for all of their content, Bell’s Crave charging the same, and Rogers Shomi charging $9 per month for their digital video on demand services, I can’t imagine why...
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