Martin Cleaver, masterfully.

Andrea and I will be away until next Wednesday morning, so I won’t be checking mails. Life should return to some normality from that point onward

After reading http://www.dslreports.com/archive?c=ca I noted just how badly Rogers, my current ISP, is rated for speed. Further people really complain about Rogers so I assume they’ve pushed it further and done more extensive comparisons than me.
To pick a replacement, here’s that DSL report for Canada showing service provider speeds. I then checked the providers to […]

I just spent a few hours this morning installing, configuring and troubleshooting http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/tag/installation/
The idea is that readers can register and get emailed about certain categories of topic I write about, as many people are not yet using an RSS reader. This would especially be a boon to my friends and family back home most of […]

Dated 15 December, we just yesterday received our Application to Sponsor confirmation from the Case Processing Centre, Mississauga (CPC-M). (See Canadian Immigration process started… finally!)

( It took about 7 days for the letter to travel 50km. I could have walked it faster, but its the Holiday Season so let’s just be grateful that Canada Post […]

Around the start of December http://Palm.com (makers of the Palm Pilot, Palm Treo etc) took their user forums offline, promising they’d be back soon. Now they say we need to wait till early Jan 2007.
What’s with a company that size taking its forums offline? Minimally I would expect them to make them read-only if they […]

In gifts-for-the-holidays-small-personal-and-meaningful, my friend Rob gives some great ideas for small and meaningful Holiday Season presents.
Since living with Andrea in Canada I have been fully indoctrinated into Secret Santa method of buying just one present for one person in the family.
And cards? Well, back home in the UK my mother exchanges about 120 cards at […]

Thanks to Mark Kuznicki and Rob Schaumer who both pointed out my feed was down. As my RSS reader (GreatNews) was failing I got behind in my reading, to the point that I had no way to be alerted that my own feed was down. RSS really does recenter a person’s web usage patterns!
I’ve finally […]

In My Blog Got Me a New Job ex-Ernst & Young Rod Boothby explains how his blog enhances the chances of landing a new job, and how he attributes his job offer to having lowered the risk to potential employers by being seen to be more transparent and open. In this posting I extend this […]

It sounds like Socialtext have pulled off masterful feat of technology: taking a web application and making it available offline. Such a goal is really sound: so many of us live in a ever-more mobile world, the frequently disconnected worker is usually excluded from some of the best apps.
Take, for instance, the case of IBM, […]

I received a phone call this morning - from Immigration Canada.
They’ve received our application and processed Andrea’s request to Sponsor me. They verified that we wanted an Outside Application (Inside Applications are slower) and asked whether we wanted London, UK vs. Buffalo to do the processing. They are working faster than normal - its supposed […]