Month: January 2010

  • Two Quick Things

    At 12:30 – 1:15 on Queen West and Peter I’ll be there with my camera, come say hi to Canada for tonight’s “Live at 5”.  Let’s talk about it :)

    And thank you for your blog comments, sorry I’ve not responded yet I will later today, just been busy.

    See ya soon! 

  • My Daily 100-Word Assignment

    The Assignment: 100 Words on the Internet and Bell

    From: Ben Lucier

    The Words:

    Every computer has an IP address, a number that looks like 333.333.22.333, think of it as the “language of the internet”.  My computer could not talk to yours if they didn’t speak IP.  

    Pulling stuff off the internet, “surfing”, is four times as fast as sending stuff up, “uploading”. A good upload speed would be about 8MBs/sec.  However, Bell has this new service where, ready?, where you can upload at… 24MB/sec.  Like I said to Ben, “that would change my life”.

    I said I’d like a Turbostick, a USB key that connects me wherever I am, then I can upload “Live at 5” from the middle of the woods.  Only if I was sponsored though, the per-usage price plan would kill me.

    TOTAL WORD COUNT: 120

    DISCLAIMER: I’d take absolutely nothing in this article for fact, pretty sure I butchered it all and instead follow the links below to see Ben’s cloud diagrams and more. 

    Links: click here and here 

    Hey Ben – if I got something wrong correct me in the comments please, kay!

  • January 21 – Live at Five

    Back to ‘The Canadian Explorer’ roots today, driving around in the studio.

    My airline ticket arrived in my email yesterday!  I’m getting shipped out February 11, back March 1 for the Olympics.  Thank you, Canoe.ca.  

    Then we pass Hearn Generating Station whose smokestack is the 2nd tallest object in Toronto.  Click that link to see inside, and click here for the video of the same (fast forward to 0:23).

    We visit the Cheltenham Badlands where @Photojunkie (Rannie Turingan) and I went last summer.  There’s a giant version of this in Alberta, and it looks like it does because in the 1930s it was over-farmed. 

    Come meet me here on Queen St. West tomorrow between 12:30-1:15pm to say hi to Canada, kay!

    Thanks for watching, TTYT.

  • Coffee with Ben

    Meet Ben Lucier, and you gotta see the homepage of his blog because it just does not get old for me.

    He gave me my 100-word assignment today: internet things and Bell.  He’s a VoIP expert and right now I’m regretting not taking notes; let’s see how my memory does.

    Thanks again dude for trying to get me into 151 Front Street; if that works OMG.

  • What 100 Words Looks Like

    See?  Little.  

    The red arrow is pointing at Peter MacKay, our Minister of National Defence

    He’s known as a ladies man on Parliament Hill and was chosen 8 years in a row as ‘Canada’s Sexiest Male MP’ by The Hill Times, ha.