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Last week I attended Ignite Waterloo, a local chapter of the (in?)famous Ignite talk series. In a nutshell Ignite brings together an assortment of speakers who each get time to speak on whatever they are passionate about. The catch is that they get exactly five minutes for their talk; the slides automatically advance every 15 seconds regardless of whether or not they can keep up.

Not only was it an informative evening but it was also a very entertaining one as well. Here is a (small) sampling of talks that I found interesting from that night.

Mike Shanks: Combining Passions

Brydon Gilliss: Change The World

Christina Moulton: Why The iPad Won’t Fail

Sean Puckett: The Smart Camera

Jonathan Fritz: Intellectual Property and Bill C-32

The rest can be found on YouTube here.

Living in Canada means I am no stranger to snow or the storms that carry it in. However since I have somewhat recently moved into a high-rise apartment building this was the first time that I was really able to see the effect that it has on the whole city at once. So I grabbed our digital camera and took a few quick pictures that I figured I would share here.

I even shot a quick video of the storm in action. You can take a look at it here (XviD/MP3).

Welcome back. Things undoubtedly look a little different these days as I have started this site anew. For various reasons I don’t find maintaining a portrait of programming work practical anymore. As such I am going to attempt to transition this space to a new format.

What I would like to do is take a link-centric approach, where this site would be a jump start to other articles, websites, commentaries, and more that I find interesting for one reason or another, and hopefully you will as well. I can’t promise new content every day but with this new format I hope that I will be able to deliver fresh updates on a more regular basis than I did before.

As always I am looking for constructive feedback so please feel free to contact me via my contact information listed here.