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Seagate Momentus XT – Hybrid HD

Two weeks ago, my wife and I returned from a vacation to Montreal. As fate would have it, the next morning (before I had a chance to make a clone, which I do on a nightly basis when I’m not on vacation), my hard drive up and died. System lockups. Half booting into OSX but [...]

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I’m a “coward” and a “slimeball salesman”

I recently met with a realtor friend of mine here in the Langley area as I’ve been thinking about purchasing an investment property near to where my wife and I currently live. My friend recommended some houses close by built by a company called Castleview Homes. Given that I like to do my research, I [...]

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FogBugz 6.0

I don’t have time to write a detailed review right now, but I just had to tell the world (AKA the 6 people that read this blog) – that FogBugz 6.0 kicks the ever-loving-crap out of JIRA. JIRA looks like a poorly made web-toy from 1997 compared to the responsive, rich, intuitive, friendly, and dare [...]

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Is This Good Marketing?

On my way to the airport in Calgary on Sunday, I drove past a billboard for Q9 Networks that said: Our data center client lists reads like a who’s who of Calgary businesses. Are you in it? Marketing like this has always bothered me. It makes me want to flip the bird in their general [...]

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