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You know how Canadian media is so distinct? How you can always tell immediately? I want to try to protect that.april 2 2009

It was the launch of the Toronto Greenhouse business forum, hosted at the Steam Whistle Brewery.  I’ve walked past the brewery about one million times but never been inside, and it is classy.

Then I met my new pal, Veyko:
march 31 2009
He’s a veteran IT guy whose brain moves so fast.  Highlights include:

– Canada and France pay the highest cel phone rates in the world
– this will end this summer when two big competitors arrive in country and competition ensues
– Google has mapped out the growth of the internet via Gmail email because remember when it was “invite only” for a couple years?  That created a giant trackable pyramid
– I won’t be affected by the virus that’s rumored to come tomorrow because I’m on a Mac
– there will be a new spectrum opened up soon (it used to be for TVs) that will provide obscenely fast access to the internet everywhere .  This is called the ‘White Space’, Google really wants it, read more here.

Then it became almost like a conspiricacy theory class:

Veyko: Okay now, why was Windows able to take over the world?
Me: Ha, I got this one!  Because they are secretly backed by the US government, who have a vested interest in having access to every desktop there is using their hidden key, the NSA_KEY.
Veyko: There’s more.

So there is something called a kernel embedded in all Windows Operating Systems (Apple does not have a kernel in their OS).  Anything your computer does runs into the kernel on one side and comes out the other.  A programmer, no matter how skilled, can never ever open the kernel, access, affect or shut down the kernel.  No one knows what happens inside the kernel.  Maybe I should not be talking about this kernel…

And then he told me on my trip I must stop in Moose Factory , a northern city in Ontario where it’s so quiet I’ll be looking around confused, wondering where all the sounds went. It’s also the oldest settlement in Ontario (1673), the second location of “The Hudson Bay Company”, and is on Factory Island.  These names, I’m loving them.

march 30 2009

How cute is this?  It was on display at City Hall that time I worked there.

Okay so:

Still getting the hang of blogging.  Like, all the documentation is done and saved chronologically on my hard-drive but publishing it… is so different, even though really all I’m doing is putting the same files from one folder into another.  Have had this blog for 7 weeks now, I’m 4 weeks behind on it, and 2 episodes too.  From “Ice Fishing” I figured out that the new cardinal rule is to never sit on footage ever in your life.

From that epiphany I had a little ago I figured out a new format for the show that I’m pumped to try.  I was going to film the last bit of it this weekend, but look how sick I am:

That’s me this afternoon.  I woke up with a fever on Friday and it’s been downhill ever since. Would you wanna watch that narrate a movie?

AND

2 very exciting things happened to me on Monday then Tuesday, the timing of which was epic.

I met Eugene from TubeMogul and guess who can now offer the best analytics that exist? The Canadian Explorer.  He’s gonna turn on the premium features because half of TubeMogul is Canadian.  Which also explains why their product is incredible.

And then I met Stiv, Founder & Editor of Wend Magazine…  please say hi to the new Canadian Ambassador for Wend.  Ha!  He’s invited me take up a mini-residence on his site and he’s shipping me gear as well.  I was hyper for a long while.  Wend’s gonna come along for “Exploring Looking for the Sasquatch” in BC.

One last thing, the new website is coming along awesome.  There’s serious behind-the-scenes work going on and by Wednesday my email shoud be hooked up and URLs re-propagated therefore making it the first official day the stuff written on my business cards all works.  @ilowelife and I are a good team.  Well it’s pretty much all him; he has sick CSS skills.  

march 29 2009
Got the good one, with the colours… which is how you know it’s getting really clean.