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Excerpt: Being in Toronto reminds me of a game of Sim City. Things are in the strangest of places, and the development of the roads, apartments, restaurants, power stations, and other facilities almost seem to be placed at random, with the newer areas showing a more organized design. The older you go in the …
- April 3rd, 2008 8:25 PM EDT
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Excerpt: One of the things I have been wanting to see in Canada for a while now is an unlimited data plan that is reasonable in price (sub $100/m) and that need has been fulfilled by Bell. Bell Canada has released an unlimited data plan for only $75/m. While this is still much more expensive than plans in th …
- September 24th, 2007 2:21 PM EDT
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Excerpt: Well, the days of the US calling our money Monopoly money because of its weak exchange are now gone, as our Canadian dollar hit parity with their own greenback.
I wanted to mark this occassion on my blog because it means that Canada is doing well, and the US is doing poorly.
This unfortunate …
- September 20th, 2007 9:16 AM EDT
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Excerpt: Yesterday was Canada Day, but today is the day that everyone is taking off. Sabine is home from work and in a cleaning frenzy. I am still hoping to get some work done, as I will be taking Thursday and Friday off to finish preparations for the wedding, and then of course attend my own wedding.
Ev …
- July 2nd, 2007 9:30 AM EDT
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Excerpt: As I begin my trip, I have to leave Sabine, my fiance, behind. Getting everything ready to go was easy, but leaving is a bit harder. I haven't had to go on a trip by myself in quite some time.
Arriving at the airport, we look around for change as Sabine would like to come in and sit with me for …
- February 22nd, 2007 10:32 PM EST
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That's right! While I couldn't afford to attend Web Directions North, Bloggy Network has agreed to send me out to Northern Voice and mingle with the blogging crowd.
Nothern Voice is an inexpensive conference ($50 CDN for two days) for weblogging and this year will be its third year in operati …
- January 26th, 2007 6:21 PM EST
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Excerpt: We jumped on the 401 again, a main highway in Ontario going from southwestern Ontario to Ottawa and the whole way there, I wished that I could connect to instant messaging services, check my e-mal and get some work done, but unfortuately for me, cellular data services in Canada are horribly expensiv …
- January 17th, 2007 6:25 PM EST
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Excerpt: If you live on the west coast or have a fair bit of money lying around and you are interested in Web Development, you should check out Web Directions North, a conference being held in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia on February 6th through the 10th.
This conference is being brough to Ca …
- November 9th, 2006 8:04 PM EST
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Excerpt: In my opinion Canada has not realized the value of the web, and the freedom we have in Canada currently.
I have decided to start a short series about Canada and its connection to the Internet and Technology. The first things I would like to touch on is our broadband connections, web hosting, the …
- June 21st, 2005 5:45 PM EDT