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Entries from July 28th, 2009

XMPP in the GoC

July 28th, 2009 No Comments

If I could wave a wand and give the public service one information iechnology that is available to the outside world, but blocked internally it would have to be instant messaging.  Why?  Let’s start with a success story in the private sector first.  Prior to working in the public service I worked for Hewlett Packard [...]

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Recovery?

July 25th, 2009 No Comments

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you have probably noticed that most of the modern world has been suffering a recession.  Canada is no exception, although we have had it milder than most due to moves by central banks and our refusal to buy up American dollars.
The Bank of Canada Declared in its [...]

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Ottawa Transit Rider Reform

July 20th, 2009 No Comments

For the past several years, Ottawans have been subjected to endless news articles, reports, assessments and other miscellany about the upcoming transit reform.  We’ve seen councillors battle out whether or not we should invest in light rail, and more recently about where the light rail should run, and finally about whether it should be underground [...]

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Inaugural Post

July 18th, 2009 No Comments

I blogged for almost seven years straight from 2001 through 2007 at several different blogs using every content mangement system under the sun.  In quick summary:

Musings of a Madman was hosted at Carleton on my CHAT space and edited by hand, then with Blogger
Textual Liberation was hosted on a friend’s server and accessible at the [...]

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