IT Therefore I am

A tale of 2 upgrades

Differences between Apple and Micrsoft explained

A few months back, I elected to upgrade my MacBook’ operating system from Leopard to Snow Leopard, Apples latest and greatest incantation. I was a little apprehensive, having never done an OS upgrade on an Apple machine before (My MacBook is my first). Would it screw up my existing [...]

A day in the life of the Internet

This long graphic put’s the size and impact of the Internet into perspective. How can you look at this and not see the potential. Little if any of it existed 20 years ago. It is both humbling and exciting at the same time.

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Mozilla’s Ubiquity is a great concept

If you don’t use Firefox for web browsing, this probably won’t be of much use to you. On the other hand, if you don’t use Firefox for browsing… why not try it. OK, enough on that…. here’s the real intent of this article.

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Sad but true

With the release of Windows 7. Microsoft has addressed most of the issues with Vista, but have still make things far more complicated than they need to. The graph below is a little tongue in cheek, but really…. in this day and age, why can’t we have an OS that is Stable, User Friendly AND [...]

Symmetry in Math

I’ve never been a math wiz, and I can honestly say it was one of my least favourite subjects in school. However, I do have a deep appreciate for the power of math and am continually surprised and fascinated by mathematical symmetry. Here are a few examples. There is no real point to [...]

My search for a Paperless Business Card

I remember, somewhat fondly, my first PDA (the original Palm). It had an Infrared port that allowed you to “beam” your business card to another similarly equipped Palm devices. I remember thinking, this is great, this will spell the end of paper business cards. Well, too many years later, we are still a drift in [...]

Rant: Focus on the problem, not the solution

Anyone who has been in IT for a while, has been hit with users bringing you their solutions, and asking for help to implement, rather than explaining their problems and asking for help developing potential solutions. If you are not careful, you can easily get caught up in the trap of providing good customer service [...]

I fell in love at the Apple Store

Apple has done a great job of marketing, portraying the PC as being uncool, and Apple products as being very cool (and for the most part they are right). Myself, being a long term PC user, am quickly becoming a MAC convert, and not just to be cool… really, but it doesn’t hurt either [...]

How to hide from responsibility – Russian Style

OK, so here is another non-IT related video, but it was too cool to pass up. I am putting it here more so I can go back and laugh at it, than my need to share it. However, it is pretty funny…. It’s in Russian, but you don’t need any translation.

Too much time on their hands – Extreme Sheep herding

So… this is not a technology related post, but something too cool to pass up. The video below shows a group of sheep herders with far too much time on their hands, doing some pretty amazing feats of herding. Don’t worry is sheep herding is not your thing, you will appreciate the humour.Enjoy!