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My Experiment in Cutting Cords (and costs) with VoIP
Example of residential network including VoIP (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Like most Canadians, I have paid way more than I care to admit to the greedy Telcos over the past several years. My estimates put...
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Why Software Devs and IT Geeks Make Good Politicians
Project Management Lifecycle (Photo credit: IvanWalsh.com) I’ve thought about whether I wanted to post this one for a while. However, I believe it to be true and since the web was made to enable free...
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Musa Betsu Kyu Judo club website launch
Japanese judoka ,Jigoro Kano(right) and Kyuzo Mifune(left) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Just a quick update on what I’ve been up to lately in my spare time (well one of the many projects), working on the...
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Birth of Reiko Clara Copeland
A very special yet belated birthday welcome goes out to Reiko Clara Copeland, the newest and youngest member of the BCmoney family. Being due today – but arriving over a week early at approximately...
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Top 10 Finish in MintChip Challenge: THANK YOU!
BCmoney Actions It is with great humility and gratitude that I announce that I have finished in the Top 10 of the Mintchip Challenge with my proposed application and idea that “A digital currency can...
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11 Ways To Be Remarkably Exceptional
Here’s an opposite take on the excellent “11 ways to be unremarkably average” comic by Gavin Aung Than (aka ZenPencils), which was itself inspired by and borrows from a quote by Chris Guillebeau. The...
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Reality TV or Glorified Karaoke Competition? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Cami Hadley and the team over at Cable.tv have created an excellent infographic that summarizes the state of Reality TV singing competitions: Created by www.Cable.tv While this does an excellent job of...
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The Most Meaningful Use of EHR in Health Care
EHR Adoption Framework (Photo credit: andyde) I’ve been thinking a lot about ways that Health Care and the medical system in general can be improved through the use of IT. In the United States right...
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Skeumorphs – Good, Bad or Ugly?
Nifty elevator interface. #skeumorph #nasig13 (Photo credit: BryanAlexander) What are Skeumorphs? In designing and developing new software systems and applications, a common strategy is to attempt to...
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E-Learning for Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers: HTML5 Memory Game
These days, digital distractions are far too proficient at taking our attention away from important responsibilities. You know, like giving your children the care and attention they need and deserve....
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E-Learning for Toddlers and Pre-Schoolers: HTML5 Alphabet Learning/Hand-Writing
Achieving higher learning through the use of computers. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Next up in my little “E-Learning for Toddlers” series is this example which was extended/based (i.e. blatantly lifted)...
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The News Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
Luddite FUD on Drudge Report (Photo credit: Todd Barnard) Ever felt like you couldn’t quite put your finger on it, but that something seemed to be “wrong with the world” and the way things are? What if...
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A Look Behind The Curtain of Loyalty and Rewards Programs
English: Different customer loyality cards (airlines, car rental companies, hotels etc.) Photo credit: Wikipedia Loyalty Cards, Rewards Programs, Points Incentives, Bonus Offers and Repeat-purchase...
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The Evolution of the Cell Phone INFOGRAPHIC
Mobile Phones have come a long way since the giant “Cell Phones” (sometimes called “Bricks” for their heavy weight and rectangular shape) of the late 80s and early 90s, to the modern “Smart Phones”...
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The biggest Open Source Software acquisitions ever
Logo Open Source Initiative (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Open Source Software (and more recently, even Open Source Hardware) have become not just rising trends but the de fact standard for true technology...
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DIY Project – Home Theatre Projection Screen Controls
John Underkoffler explains the human-computer interface he first designed as part of the advisory work for the film Minority Report. The system, called “g-speak”, is now real and working. Note the...
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NB Hackathon – NoSQL, BigData and Linked Open Data for Government
This month, I participated in the NB Hackathon, an event that aims to bring developers in Atlantic Canada (particularly NB) together for the purpose of hacking on some interestling Linked Open Data and...
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Dusting off my 2008 cover letter to RIM on BlackBerry’s future, rejected job...
The Research in Motion headquarters, based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While backing up some files to an external hard drive from my older one, I recently came across an old...
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HTML Tutorial and Web History lesson
Today, something unexpected happened. I had the (somewhat unplanned and impromptu) pleasure of showing the ropes to the “new recruit” at work, a student here for a work term over summer break. Now,...
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Creating a W3C Widget with the Wikipedia API
Wikipedia’s “page” level Data Model (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In a previous post I described what the W3C Widget specification is and how it works. In this post I’ll describe how to create a more...
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