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  • Here We Are

    We’re now in Playacar, Playa del carmen, Mexico. We’ve been here for 3 days now but I was only able to activate my TelCel 3G stick this morning. 🙂

  • Off We Go

    Getting ready to leave for the airport with the family. Direction: Playa del Carmen, Mexico, for 3+ weeks. See you on the flip side.

  • Momentus XT Disappointment

    http://twitter.com/#!/stephdau/status/13686767123177472

    Had to RMA the drive back for a refund, since I’m leaving Montreal for a trip tomorrow and NewEgg wouldn’t ship a replacement to Mexico… Quite disappointed, but nothing critical since I was upgrading for a speed boost, rather than replacing a dead drive. Shame though.

  • Lego Antikythera Mechanism

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    This, to me, is the perfect storm of awesomeness, combining three of my favorite things: Lego, computing and ancient civilizations.

    See “Ancient astronomy: Mechanical inspiration” for more info on the Antikythera mechanism.

  • 2011 Facebook Hacker Cup


    Check out Facebook’s worldwide coding competition:

    The 2011 Facebook Hacker Cup is the first annual Facebook programming contest where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup. […] Many will enter, but only one will claim title as champion and take home the $5,000 USD cash prize and be immortalized on the Hacker Cup.

    Registration opens on December 20th 2010.

    On a side note, I love that poster design. 🙂

  • QuĂ©bec Government Sees the Open Source Light

    All I have to say to the following is it’s about freakin’ time…

    In what appears to be a 180 degree turn, Michelle Courchesne, Présidente du Conseil du Trésor of the government of Québec, announced that any governmental organization and any other entity depending on the government must consider open source software for any IT project, at the Salon du Logiciel Libre in Québec city.

    Via Montreal Tech Watch » Québec Government makes way for open source software in IT infrastructure.

  • Teef

    It’s funny cuz it’s true. :p

  • Winter Haiku

    http://twitter.com/#!/stephdau/status/12559220436111360

    Mmmm, I’m detecting a pattern in my last few posts… Playa, here we come (soon).

  • Mutually Helpful

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    The car behind us was parked so bad today that one of the city’s sidewalk snow-remover got stuck and the only way to get it out was to move our car. So we got to work, helped by the city’s employees. I wish they got stuck every winter morning, it’d be so much easier/faster to get the kids to school. 😉

  • TĂȘtes Ă  Claques: Les Joies de l’Hiver

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgcCC764k6s&w=640&h=510]
    This is ME! Guessing you have to be from or living in Quebec (and speak French) to really understand that one. But if you do, then you’ll know exactly what he means. Well, unless you’re a bear.

    TsĂ© c’est wooooooo…