Earlier this week I linked to a Globe and Mail story that stated a Canadian had invented the first personal computer.
But the MCM-70 Microcomputer, unveiled by Micro Computer Machines 30 years ago today and built at least four years before the Apple, has been recognized as the first of its kind in a recent issue [...]

Two people are dead after Juan swept the coast of Nova Scotia and PEI.
A paramedic was killed when a tree crashed down on his ambulance and another person was killed in their vehicle the same way.
100 thousand are without power in the Halifax area.
Two thirds of Prince Edward Island are also without power. The [...]

I lived and worked on the east coast of Nova Scotia which is going to get whalloped with Hurricane Juan today.
I was on a ferry out of Bar Harbour Maine, heading to the province when the tale end of a hurricane hit. Waves were so high they washed over the ferry….crew and the few [...]

The BBC has a quiz on the different ways we think.
Some people have a strong preference for one style of thinking, and find some skills come more naturally than others. Other people tend to adopt different thinking styles in different situations.
This test gives you an idea of what your current thinking style or styles are. [...]

Grrrrrr. I was not impressed late last month and earlier this month when some bloggers made jokes about heat related deaths in France under the guise of punditry.
I’m really not impressed now.
AP (Associated Press) has been compling statistics on heat related deaths in Europe this summer.
I’m heading out to a course, or I’d look up [...]

Did you know a Canadian invented the first personal computer?
I didn’t.
Canadians tend to be kind of quiet about accomplishments.
It never made a rich man of its inventor, Mers Kutt, who still works with computers and ekes out a living from his Toronto house.
But the MCM-70 Microcomputer, unveiled by Micro Computer Machines 30 years ago today [...]

Online Journalism Review gives newspapers some guidance on how to manage a blog.
Newspapers represent all that is old and moldy about journalism: printed on dead trees, distributed by underpaid teens, and read by an aging audience. Weblogs represent all that is edgy and hip about journalism: written in a personal voice, encompassing divergent modes of [...]

The Hindus have a theory about life.
Birth to 20 years of age is the age of youth.
20 to 40 is the age of the warrior.
40 to 60 is the head of the household.
60+ is the age of self-actualizing.
It’s a bit like Maslow’s heirarchy of needs which is based on a theory that human nature is [...]