Radio continues to be part of our daily lives. It is ubiquitous in our travels to work, the background in our kitchens and offices. My main reason for doing this post is that I want to rediscover radio for you, but also how I have rediscovered it myself. When I was in high school there was a station that promised
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Lately I have not had much time to post any articles. I have certainly a lot of items to discuss and share, but time is limited these days. So what spurred me to do this post today? The oil industry trying to make me feel like a bad Canadian. They did not say that explicitly but they certainly lean on
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No wonder Hitchbot is the darling of the media. The original press release started with TORONTO, ON. July 16, 2014: A trivia-loving, wellington-wearing, tweeting robot will be hitchhiking across Canada this summer, one ride at a time. hitchBOT will be leaving from Halifax, N.S. on July 27th and its ultimate destination is Victoria, B.C., more than 6,000 km away. You
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I used to have a Volvo. Twice. The first was a sedan and had the Canadian flag painted on the roof and the Scottish flag on the hood. The second was a wagon and was a real beater. Both were great cars, but the method I bought them back in the 90s was a lot different than today. Before the
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My wife and I looked forward to a great concert on the weekend. City & Colour (Dallas Green) was in town and we caught the show at the Halifax Metro Centre. Sitting about 3 rows up from the main floor, our row was roughly 25 rows from the top. As the concert got underway, many – including ourselves – pulled
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I think you should get the idea of this post based on the title. While watching some TV last evening I noticed a string of commercials. Four out of the six that ran finished off with hashtags. A couple of these that I recall more than 24 hours later without effort were: KFC: #Howdoyoukfc Tavelocity: #iwannogo Hoover: #hoover This
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The rise of smartphones and adoption by consumers is one, which has been extremely quick. Television took 30 years to reach main penetration of households. The web and desktop computer (which are hand- in hand in terms of household uptake) took around 10 years. Smartphones? Something like three years or so. Canadian smartphone ownership, according to a 2013 Google report,
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For years our family ordered pizza from a local place. I was a loyal customer. Over time however, we noticed the quality had changed. The service was still top notch, but the pizzas and donairs – well they just were not up to what we thought they used to be. We still ordered. We still believed that the next
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I have a lot of things that I would like to comment and blog about, but sometimes it is just not worthy of an article. Hence I have launched a Facebook page where I will post those items rather then keep them as a link in my desktop where they inevitably get sent to the trash. I also want
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I have been playing around with the re-branding of my digital namesake of textureweb – originally a company I ran from 95 til 08. I want to keep some of the moniker of the original iconography, but have been playing around with an update. Here is one of my favourite versions from 10 years ago [screen grab below]. I
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