From the monthly archives: September 2011
Cloud Computing is the boardroom buzzword of the year for 2011. With promises of flexibility, scalability, ease of management and cost reduction it’s an attractive proposition for any company looking to solve complex inter-related IT issues. If your technology is out-dated and you can’t afford to replace it; use the Cloud as there are no, [...]
Continue Reading →Imagine a city where the roads are filled with the same car. This city only allows one manufacturer and one model of car to be driven on its roads but they will allow you to choose your own paint colour, air freshener and interior trim. Would you want to live here? The city council say [...]
Continue Reading →We live on a mountain, a huge granite-filled monster of a mountain that seems to have filled our front and rear yards with its spawn. During some of our earthworks we’ve developed a few techniques for removing the rocks and boulders that we’ve encountered that we’d like to share with you Internet folks. Firstly, granite [...]
Continue Reading →We purchased our house in late 2006. We initially viewed the property in October and during the buying process it suffered a small leak in the basement. The sellers brought in a specialist contractor, shelled out $25K to have half of the perimeter draintile changed and we continued to buy the house. We assumed the [...]
Continue Reading →We acquired a dog in August 2008, much to the surprise of my wife who maintains she was shanghaied into accepting the deal. I’d wanted a dog for around 10 years but my contracting lifestyle didn’t suit it — long days, constantly moving. It wouldn’t be fair. It was only after we moved to Vancouver [...]
Continue Reading →-
Categories
-
Meta
