The blog of B. Matt Bremer.
I have to admit, after years of using Microsoft’s Windows XP on my home network, and hearing the online complaints of the Vista crowd, I was reluctant to make the switch over to Windows 7. Lack of product support from Microsoft for XP ensured that using it on a new machine wasn’t a viable option anymore, even if it still is a “great” OS. And by “great” I mean that it usually won’t crash when I try to print something or use the Internet. So eventually, I downloaded and installed …
Read the full story »The CTV Olympic Consortium (disclosure – I work for CTV) has really gone above and beyond in their coverage of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. So much so that even the New York Times has noticed in a recent article:
“Everything live,” he said. “Watch what you want, when you want, how you want, and provide experience on TV, V.O.D., online, mobile and in theaters. We’ve combined the live component Canadians are familiar with from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with NBC’s high production level.”…
“People shouldn’t have to change their media consumption …
On Saturday September 9, 2009, my mother in law Helen Anastasi hosted a reception for Lauren and myself at Aunt Carmen’s place. I got the opportunity to meet a lot of Lauren’s family and friends of the family. Once again I was shown that the Maltese people are among the nicest in the world, and all made me feel welcome, especially Uncle Louis!
Here are the photos from our reception in Malta.
All photos B. Matt, Lauren and Elton.
In 1999, Napster was for me, in one word, Amazing. Suddenly I could download pretty much any MP3 I ever wanted, free and (relatively) quickly. I would spend days hunting down entire catalogues and my hard drives quickly filled with the music I thought I wanted. Nine years later, and the necessity of actually having to download the tunes is disappearing. With the ubiquity of in browser flash players like the Hype Machine, and now Grooveshark, there really isn’t any need to download the tune. Play pretty much any tune …
At the 2008 edition of Nuit Blanche this year, some of the artists that participated were not sanctioned. While in the dog park at Trinity Bellwoods, I heard that there had been a guy who had climbed up a tree and that at midnight he was going to light the tree up wiht Pixie dust. As luck would have it, I happened to be there at that time. There were about 20 people gathered around the tree, and the artist began climbing the tree, in the pitch dark. Being a …
The word “recession” wouldn’t describe the deep structural problems affecting everything from the U.S. housing sector to the Canadian oil industry, said Bank of Nova Scotia chief economist Warren Jestin.
“You have to invent a new word to describe what we’re in now,” he said after the banks presented their perspectives at the Economic Club.
Trust me brother, the word already exists. Nobody wants to say it…yet.
CTV.ca | Bank economists predict: ‘worse than a recession’.
