Sens

Blow-drying the Passport

by alec on October 27, 2006

Bogging has been a little slow today. The reason? Last night, after the Digium party, I returned to my room, grabbed a glass of water, and sat down at the PC to check the hockey scores. The Sens were playing the Leafs and I wanted to know if they had repeated last Tuesday’s victory.

You can guess what happened next.

So I’m blow drying my passport. And my keyboard. The passport pages aren’t sticking together anymore, so they might let me back in the country tomorrow. However, I’m not sure the x key and the space bar on my keyboard will ever work again. Thank goodness this is a tablet PC, and comes equipped with a pen.

The Sens won, 7 to 2.

 

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Balsillie Buys the Penguins!

by alec on October 4, 2006

Blockbuster news!  While watching the season opener, Ottawa Sens vs Toronto Maple Leafs, TSN announces that RIM founder Jim Balsillie is the new owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins.  Wow!  Speculation: will he keep the team in Pittsburgh, or are they coming to Southern Ontario (Hamilton, or Kitchener?).  And can Southern Ontario support a third NHL franchise alongside Buffalo and Toronto?

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Hanging Up The Car Flag

May 14, 2006

Well, that’s it.  The game last night was a nailbiter, but in the end the Sabres knocked the Sens out.  The most frustrating thing?  The Sabres goals looked like the same kinds of goals the Sens were scoring at the beginning of the season, but apparently have forgotten how to now. Tallinder’s opening goal at [...]

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Game 2: Sabres 2, Sens 1

May 8, 2006

That was a heartbreaker.  There was no score in the first, and third, but Buffalo went up 2 to 1 in the second.  Ryan Miller took an amazing 44 shots, letting just one in.  Ray Emery had a comparatively easier time of it, with just 17 shots on goal.  The Sens played hard tonight, but [...]

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The Bandwagon Line Forms to the Right

May 7, 2006

I think it’s tough to be a Maple Leafs, or a Habs fan at the moment, and be out of the playoffs. Increasingly, they’re joining the Sens bandwagon.  After all, what are you going to do?  Quit watching hockey for the rest of the season?  Nah! This week one of our developers, Noam, finally broke down and got some Sens-wear.  And, [...]

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BarCamp Mixer Ends with Sens Victory Over Lightning

April 21, 2006

Barcamp Ottawa kicked off this evening with a small mixer at the Fox and Feather on Elgin street.  It was great to see so many friends, and meet new people.  Bryce shot some photos, which I’ve uploaded to this flickr set, and tagged BarCampOttawa.  This is a particular representative shot showing me, David Crowe with [...]

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Jim’s Visit

February 1, 2006

iotum had a visit from our good friend Jim Courtney on Monday.  He gave us a demo of a very interesting Voice 2.0 application (sworn to secrecy at this point) that he and some friends are working on in the medical field.  He also snapped some photos of the iotum offices, which you can find [...]

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Kanata’s Newest “Cash Machine”

January 11, 2006

The Ottawa Citizen reports this morning that the Senators have done a new deal for the naming rights on the Corel Centre.  The Senators will now play at "Scotiabank Place".  I’m happy for Corel that they’ve unloaded this dinosaur.   In 2000 I told then Corel CEO Derek Burney that he ought to sell the rights [...]

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Teamwork and Leadership

December 31, 2005

We went to the Ottawa Senators vs  the NY Islanders last night at the Corel Center.  The Senators came back from being down 3-1 to win the game 4-3.  It was a remarkable display of teamwork, made all the more so by team Captain Daniel Alfredsson.  In the middle of the second period he took [...]

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The Newest Senator?

December 8, 2005

It was official this morning.  Havlat will be out for surgery on his shoulder, for a minimum of 3 to 3 1/2 months.  The only silver lining is how well Bochenski is playing.  The local papers caught this great photo of Steve Ballmer in a Senators jersey a couple of days ago.  Perhaps he’s interested [...]

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