Posted August 15th, 2009 by cgillen
Twittering in the military.
The problems is obvious; Twitter even greets you with the friendly statement “what are you doing right now?”. A phrase most members of the military shouldn’t answer a great deal of the time. Operation security very often is in direct conflict with the way social medias work where even comments to friends [...]
Tags: canadian forces, facebook, social media, twitter
Posted August 4th, 2009 by cgillen
Usually with Google suggestions there is more than one option. Not when it comes to Prime Minister Harper.
Tags: google, harper, not really news
Posted May 11th, 2009 by cgillen
In any business there’s shady people, but I’m in the computer business so this type of behaviour drives me nuts.
This computer ‘repairman’ stole a hard drive from a customer and then tried to sell them that he could recover the data (presumably out of thin air seeing as the drive was gone). Of course the [...]
Tags: stealing, stupid
Posted May 11th, 2009 by cgillen
If you need any more encouragement about keeping your anti-virus up to date here it is. The virus controlled by the Zeus botnet recently sent the kill signal and took 100,000 computer down. These computer blue screened and then became unusable.
The reasons for this are unclear, but the effect is unmistakable 100,000 computers are now [...]
Tags: kill, virus, zeus
Posted May 4th, 2009 by cgillen
That’s right Apple briefly had a baby shaking application. So to achieve some karmic balance we’re linking through to don’t shake .ca to highlight why you should never shake a baby. You wouldn’t think you’d need to say it, but I guess I was wrong.
Tags: Apple, baby shaking
Posted May 4th, 2009 by cgillen
Social Media Club features a variety of speakers on topics related to how to enhance your use of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and many other social media sites.
Come join them every 4 Tuesday of the month.
Tags: facebook, social media club, twitter
Posted May 3rd, 2009 by cgillen
Radio Interview - May 2, 2009 from Paul Holmes on Vimeo.
Thanks to Paul for filming it.
Tags: cfax online, ideazone, paul holmes, video
Posted May 2nd, 2009 by cgillen
In celebration of Crime Stoppers first 25 years in the Victoria community we are proud to present a night of dinner theatre featuring ‘Cement Shoes’.
This guarantees to be an evening of rip roaring fun as the actors from Play with your Food take you back to the age of gangsters and molls, speak easies and [...]
Tags: crimestoppers, fundraiser
Posted April 30th, 2009 by cgillen
One of these products is a legitimate anti-virus the other is a virus. Can you tell which one is which?
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Answer: The bottom one is the real anti-virus. The top is an extortion-ware virus.
Tags: antivirus, spot the difference, virus
Posted April 29th, 2009 by cgillen
And it is worth the wait. Some of the highlights:
*Support for saving to PDF
*Faster startup and shutdown times
*Export Access reports to Excel
*Outlook Calendar functionality and reliability improvements
*Fuller integration of Office Excel Chart Object Model into Word
*Outlook running up to 27% faster than before.
It’s free for those with Office 2007 and I think the Outlook updates [...]
Tags: office, Office 2007, service pack
