WatTF? – Jim Murphy

I can’t wait till the inevitable happens, especially here in Canada: Extreme disruption of the entire wireless/mobile value network. Google has an recent announcement that I wish I understood – seems excessively rosey – but if somebody’s gonna do it this group are as good a group as any: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dell, Intel, [...]

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Our guys don’t know the meaning of the word bored. Especially with bikes in the dining room! W00t!

Our tricycle built for two:

“Hey, peeps! Peace!”

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If you’re interested in understanding the culture of software startups run don’t walk to Paul Grahams collection of essays. Paul knows of what he speaks. He runs Y-Combinator an unconventional incubator for starups in Boston and the valley. Though as if to prove that no one’s perfect he’s a serious Lisp-head. [...]

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I’ve been trying to get a sense for how much the Amazon Web Services means to Amazon in terms of $ today. Its a strategic initiative with lots of buzz but how is that translating? The numbers seem somewhat elusive from what I can find in their public filings and round the web. [...]

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From the “Woulda-Shoulda-Coulda” department. The historic Dalby house was sold recently to a real estate developer set on remodeling (a great idea) and turning it into a medical office (a not so good idea).
When we moved to Elora last fall we were psyched to have what we though a cool local bar to stumble [...]

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Mindreef graciously accepts our 5th Jolt award, thats 3 in a row!  Congrats to us, and our customers!

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What do you call it when you think you’ve finished an IM conversation, closed the IM window but then the person  you’re chatting with gives you a little extra “seeya” or “l8r” which pops the window back open?
Please add your fav term to the comments.

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This just in from the “Stuff you already Know Department”: Computer and Telecom jobs pay well in Canada.
I was looking for income distribution information in Canada from StatsCan – or anywhere really. I never did find the histogram I was looking for but I did find out how completely out of touch it [...]

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So I’ve had a low priority background thread spun up for a year or so learning Ruby and more importantly for me Rails. Some of the guys at Mindreef have ported our Struts/Spring/Hibernate web app front end to Groovy + Grails so I’ve been watching that go pretty well. For a Java guy [...]

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Ok so thats not a cool post title but I need to get this thought out of my head.
Why is Google Maps or Flickr at the center of every cool mashup ever made? My answer: because when you mashup you are gluing together components and usually making a very thin pseudo-application. Since Google [...]

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