No Phishing!

On January 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment

There’s a reason that websites that deal with monetary transactions provide warnings about phishing scams. They happen all the time and the people that commit these crimes are good at it.

I was posting some items up on Kijiji to sell before my move to Seattle, one of which was my

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IE Auto-Updates – What’s the Big Deal?

On December 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I was reading through the comments on Jeffrey Zeldman’s blog post about MSIE auto-updates and noticed that a fair number of people complained that the announcement by Microsoft means nothing in terms of getting users to upgrade. While they have [...]

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CSS Wishlist: Extendible CSS

On November 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment

With more people viewing the web over high-speed connections and through mobile devices across cellular networks, bandwidth has become a major consideration when designing/developing websites.

While the bandwidth usage of CSS files tend to pale in comparison to the obvious big guns such as video, images, and other media, CSS bloat is still a problem. [...]

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Voting Needs to Jump to the Web

On October 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

So another Ontario provincial election is in the books and Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government has emerged the victor. The big story coming out of the election besides the collapse of Tim Hudak’s campaign is the record low voter turnout.

I think the reason for this is a combination of voter apathy and a decrease in [...]

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Steve Jobs – Inspiration

On October 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The news of Steve Jobs’ death shocked the world on Wednesday evening. I think most people realized that his time was growing short when he stepped down as Apple’s CEO but much like NDP leader Jack Layton’s death earlier this year, it is still a bitter pill to swallow.

While I am a [...]

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Is Facebook Running Scared?

On September 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Wow. I never expected this.

I have been using Google+ for about a month now and find it to be a great social media application. I’m not surprised to find a lot of people trying it out and liking it.

What does surprise me is how badly Facebook’s attempt at outshining Google+ seems to be backfiring [...]

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Google+ as a Personal Dashboard

On July 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The web is raving about Google+ (G+), social media’s new kid on the block and supposed Facebook (FB) killer.

Personally, I don’t think you’ll see a massive shift in user base from FB to G+. I think instead, you’ll see a shift in time on site as people will use G+ more than FB. The [...]

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Subdomains on Steroids?

On June 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

With the news of ICANN opening the door to custom Top-level Domains (TLDs), companies are already gearing up for registration and thinking of ways to capitalize on this new method of branding.

According to ICANN: “Internet address names will be able to end with almost any word in any language, offering organizations around [...]

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