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Apples part of the shifting Television screen.

There has been a lot of speculation this month about Apple TV, changes that make it more than a “Hobby” for Apple, including :

re-branding it as iTV -even though that is already a British TV network called ITV. Could the simply license its name to Apple, like what Cicso did with the iPhone?
running the [...]

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Jazzing It Up At the Art Museum in Los Angeles, California

On-line travel site Trazzler is making use of my image (on flickr) in it article about free Friday evening Jazz at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in Jazzing It Up At the Art Museum in Los Angeles, California.

(Also, I’m now posting places my images are being used, under the LinkRoll Section and Images.)

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Mesh10 : five years of Meshing in Toronto

This was the week for MESH and MESH U,which is a Toronto based conference which looks at “The Web” and how it is affecting the media, marketing, business and society as a whole. Mesh is in its 5th year and Mesh U (which is a more focused one for the on design, development and [...]

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Quick links as of May 21th 2010

May 15th:
at Smashing Magazine comes a revisit of _why: Tale of a Post-Modern Genius, the sad tale of “Why the Lucky Stiff”, who made many vibrant and colourful contributions to the community, before deleting his online existence last August. The article is a great review of the whole arc and some useful links. [...]

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Another episode of “It’s Charlie’s Stross’s fiction, we are just living in it” : Will Wall Street require Python?

Saw “Will Wall Street require Python? | ITworld”, on the Hot Links website and thought “interesting”, and then I read the description !
“Charles Stross was right. “with Release 33-9117, the SEC is considering substitution of Python or another programming language for legal English as a basis for some of its regulations.”
I remembered the use [...]

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Toronto DemoCamp 26, still going strong with noodles, Lean Marketing and 5 Demos.

Last night was the 26th DemoCamp in Toronto, and the 3rd held at Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management with a crowd of ~300 or so. We had a Key Note by April Dunford and Demos by Kobo Books, Status.net, OpenApps, TeamSave, SWIX. and food. kick ass!!

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$400 fine and 3 demerit points for the life of 79 year old Siu Mui Lam

Siu Mui Lam (also known as Mrs. Wong, born 1930) was killed by a dump truck driver on June 23, 2009 (the second day of City strike) when she crossed an intersection at St. Helen’s street/ Bloor before a STOP sign.
The impact was so huge, that head and body was severely disfigured, and she pronounced [...]

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Using an iPod as a travel device and the what could be (aka the tripPad™)

This fall I was lucky to travel to Berlin and Paris on vacation, but as I geek I of course brought along a computer or 2.
On last years trip to Los Angles I had a NetBook (Aspire One) and using our friends WiFi was able to keep up on email and access the locations I [...]

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Changes in the Junction : Jocelyn’s Place, a Stop Light & Buddha Pie

This fall has seen a few changes in Toronto’s west end Junction neighborhood (of New York Times fame):
Bronto Burger is now Jocelyn’s Place (2982 Dundas St. West, just west of Pacific Ave.), with a new owner but same menu/price and deco (at least for now). The food and service continue to be as good.

The [...]

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Five films from the TIFF

We saw 5 great films in the Contemporary World Cinema program in this years (2009) Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff).
We started off with a Irish film, Perrier’s Bounty, set in the underside of North Dublin. Great and meaty characters. I hope the DVD has English subtitles and translation so I can understand [...]

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