Ottawa

Visit us at Winter Arts and Pottery Sale

November 23, 2008

I spent yesterday at the annual Winter Arts and Pottery Sale put on by the Nepean Visual Arts Centre with Janice.  It was a trade show, but not the usual kind of show I attend.  No switches, routers, or PBX’s in sight, and nary a phone anywhere!  Instead, row upon row of local artists and [...]

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Drinking in the Police with Nokia’s N95

May 2, 2008

The Police, with Elvis Costello as the warm-up act last, played Ottawa last night. There will be lots of reviews of the concert, which was fabulous. So, I’m not going to write about that. Instead… well, our seats, 4 rows from center stage, provided the perfect opportunity to play with some advanced telephony products. So [...]

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Deloitte TMT Predictions

January 24, 2008

Live notes from Duncan Stewart's presentation this morning: The TMT predictions are a 1 year snapshot.  These are the hot areas for the next 12 months.  — Internet — The rising value of digital protection: instead of "protect and serve" we are now protecting the server.  My PC or smartphone is disposable – but what's [...]

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DemoCamp 7: Jan 28

January 22, 2008

Ottawa DemoCamp 7 is happening on Monday of next week, January 28.  On tap are: 'Protecode Demo' – demonstration of a tool that unobtrusively detects, logs, and identifies external content during software development. This tool is used to automatically create records of Intellectual Property ownership and licensing attributes of external code (eg Open Source modules [...]

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Digging out

December 17, 2007

Around here, everybody's digging out this morning.  The snow started falling at around 9 AM yesterday, and finally quit over night.  Thankfully I hired a plough service this year.  My driveway was cleaned up in the middle of the night by Pat, a volunteer firefighter with a tractor and the biggest snow blower you've ever [...]

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The Government of Canada is about to make a serious mistake on Copyright.

December 4, 2007

Shortly the Canadian parliament will have legislation introduced which is similar to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. You can find out more about this on Michael Geist's blog (the Canadian DMCA: What You Can Do), and via the Facebook group that he has created – the Fair Copyright group.  Geist is an advocate for fair [...]

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Ottawa Barcamp 4

November 5, 2007

Coming up September November 17th… Ottawa Barcamp 4!  Haven't been to one before?  Barcamp is one of the best events in the tech community.  An unconference targeted at geeks, Barcamp is an opportunity to share and mix with the local tech community.  Because it's an unconference, anyone can present and everyone is expected to participate. [...]

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Happy Easter!

April 8, 2007

It's Easter morning.  I got up and grabbed the new Nokia N95 (which has been my constant companion the last couple of days), and shot these pictures with it.  A five megapixel snapshot camera in my phone.  Wow! It's cold, and there's a fresh dusting of snow on the ground here in Ottawa.  But there [...]

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Barcamp Ottawa 3 — Tomorrow

March 30, 2007

I just offered to deliver a session at tomorrow's BarCamp Ottawa 3.  I'll be talking about promoting your products virally, which is something we've been working hard at here at iotum, with Talk-Now.  There's a great story on Ottawa's BarCamps in yesterday's Ottawa Citizen Tech Weekly too. See you there!

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talk-Now at Ottawa Wireless Cluster

February 7, 2007

Planning on attending the Ottawa Wireless Cluster event tomorrow evening?  I’ll be there too.  The organizers have kindly given me a 5 minute slot at the beginning of the event to present talk-Now. They said “no sales pitches!”… well, it’s free, and I’m looking for interested people to try it and provide feedback. In other [...]

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