K’s Weblog

At what point did I become completely dependent on my technology?  I mean, I can remember a time when I didn’t carry  a cell phone.  Sure my life was simpler back then, but even doing some simple tasks today seems all to difficult without the phone.
As these devices have made their way into our lives, [...]

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As I promised in last night’s post, I’m using Boston’s free Wi-Fi network to drop a quick email to the Mayors of both Burnaby and Vancouver.  The gist: Free Wi-Fi in urban centres is a great thing.  I decided to include a copy of the email on the blog for anyone who might be interested.
Good [...]

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The city of Boston along with a couple of partners offers free open Wi-Fi in a public area near the harbour.  While the news itself is more than 18 months old, I felt the need to post about it since I only discovered it today.
This is a move by the city of Boston which will [...]

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Until such time as I can find a viable (read: worthwhile) ad service to help offset the costs of the blog, I will no longer be subjecting readers to ads on the blog.
After nearly 9 months of Google Adsense, I’ve managed $3.56.  Since Google requires $100 in your account before they will pay out, I’m [...]

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Messaging and “GTD-ish” service Jott has just launched new local numbers in many major cities in Canada. The service has gone from one local number in Toronto, to twenty nation-wide.
Here is an excerpt from the email sent to Canadian Jott users today:
In an effort to protect your privacy, most Canadian mobile providers have blocked [...]

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Cross-posted with Miss604.com
So much in today’s world needs to be justified with numbers showing us that there is a quantifiable value for every decision. When a company spends money, more often than not they want to know how spending that money will make them more money. This is the concept of return on investment [...]

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Pouring through my ever overflowing RSS reader tonight I came across a post on AppScout by Alan Henry about Flickr Fight.  This is a site that allows you to search for two terms, and then determines how popular the term is based on the number of hits returned in a Flickr search (Google Fight knockoff??).  [...]

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Thank you Wil Wheaton.
For several years now I’ve wondered what the name of this song is.  It’s been used in countless soundtracks, commercials, movies, well the list goes on.  And I’ve never been able to find anyone who knows who wrote it, performed it or what the name of it was… until now.
I found this [...]

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[[Welcome to this, the 200th post on kdmurray.net!]]
I got confirmation today that the folks over at Schmapp have selected one of my photos for inclusion in their 2007 Los Angeles travel guide in the “Best of the Beach” section.
The photo is one I took of the Santa Monica pier when we were in LA last [...]

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On Friday executives at Warner Brothers announced that they would be committing to support the Blu-Ray format for HD movies and would be ceasing production of movies in the HD-DVD format at the end of May, 2008.
Though the battle is far from over with technology giants like Intel and Microsoft backing the Toshiba-led HD-DVD format.  [...]

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