Posts Tagged ‘ history ’

Of Boats, Tweets and Education

April 17, 2012
Of Boats, Tweets and Education

This weekend, in case you missed it, marked the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. It also made James Cameron a bunch more money thanks to Tinanic 3D box office returns and it revealed that many people had no idea that the movie had been based on a real event. While I’ll admit my initial response was [...]

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My Nerd Past and Two Nerds

June 6, 2011
My Nerd Past and Two Nerds

I’m sure I’ve blogged before about my early introduction to computers but I can’t find the posts so… back in grade 9 (1983 for those keeping track) I decided to check out the Computer Club that had started at school. The science teachers had set up an ad-hoc computer lab in a room where they [...]

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Of Blizzards Past

November 22, 2010
Of Blizzards Past

OK, really just one, and it wasn’t exactly a blizzard as much as a record-breaking dump of snow. The winter of 1996 was remembered for one thing, snow that totally shut down the city for several days. Mike and I were living in a crappy suite in a house on Ormond St., just behind Central [...]

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Reading someone else’s mail

May 27, 2010
Reading someone else’s mail

I have a crick in my neck tonight because I was actually too focused at work today.  For the past week I’ve been gradually transcribing a handwritten document from 1884 that outlines the numbers and occupations of Chinese in British Columbia at that time. It’s 14 pages long and the ink has long ago faded [...]

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