Canada
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007This has nothing to do with my usual subjects, but I found it funny when I heard it on the radio so I thought I’d share it with you. Apparently, Canada ranks #1 in industrial countries and #5 in all countries for consumption of marijuana. In fact, we outperformed Jamaica, which has quite a reputation […]
Oh Canada
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Since I work for the federal gummint, I feel an obligation to toot the horn for local companies, which is why I’m pointing to this article by Heri Rakotomalala on the top Canadian web applications. For example, there’s Club Penguin, a virtual world for kids, which I’d seen before but hadn’t realised it was Canuck. […]
Collaborative writing on the iPhone?
Monday, June 18th, 2007I heard this morning on Radio-Canada that the iPhone is not going to be offered in Canada on its official US release date, which sucks for Canuck technophiles (sorry, D’Arcy!). Not that I was planning on getting one for myself - not at that price anyways - unless it’s for research work and the CRC […]
Octopz
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007A new web-based collaboration tool, Octopz, distinguishes itself from other such tools by offering the ability to mark up images and videos online. It looks like it’s aimed primarily at creative types. It offers several collaboration tools and lets you do both synchronous and asynchronous meetings. It’s not free, though. At 99 dollars US per […]
Sylvana Winterschild
Monday, November 13th, 2006(Uhm, yeah, so I went in to work this morning, only to learn half-way there that it was a holiday: it was Remembrance Day on Saturday, so we civil servants get today off. You’d think that after five years I’d remember that we get the day off, but I never do.)
I finally persuaded André (it […]
Hot enough for ya?
Tuesday, August 1st, 2006According to MétéoMedia, it’s presently (12 noon) 31° Celsius, which, with the added humidity, feels like a scorching 45° Celsius (or 113° Farenheit). And you thought it never got hot in Canada.
Darn it, I think my igloo is melting…
Added another Canadian lab to my list
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006Thanks to Jennifer Gluck for telling me about the existence of the Imager Lab for Graphics, Visualization, and HCI at the University of British Columbia, which I have now added to my list of Canadian HCI labs.
There also exists a web site dedicated to the HCI projects being done at UBC in various labs across […]
