Just returned from Microsoft Tech Days 2008 in Ottawa

And I got a buttload of free stuff from Tech Days 2008. Including, but not limited to – a Microsoft sticker, a cool toque, a spoon that also functions as a pen, a technet 6 month subscription, tech ed dvd sets, vs pro 2008, expression web, and a bunch of demo software. All in all it was a great day, but, I didn’t like the fact that it started at like 7:30 am, way too early for geeky people....

November 27, 2008 · 1 min · 86 words · Matt G

Cool, looks like I’m in the PS3 Home Beta. Along with thousands of others no doubt.

WELCOME TO HOME BETA Dear PlayStation®Network member, Congratulations, you have been selected to help beta test PlayStation®Home! We appreciate your help in making the PlayStation®Home experience the best it can be! Please log in to Home this evening from 6 pm – 8 pm PST for a big celebration of Version 1.0 and a load test of our new features. How to download After you have signed in with your PlayStation®Network Account:...

November 21, 2008 · 1 min · 147 words · Matt G

Online shopping growing steadily in Canada says StatsCAN

This is old news to some of you, but I thought we’d share it for those of you who haven’t heard about this already. StatsCAN (Statistics Canada) has released this years round of online shopping statistics. The survey found that while Canadians on a whole are still somewhat hesitant about online security will still most likely do their shopping online instead of going out to a local retailer. The overall sales volume rose over two years ago, as did the overall dollar value of monies exchanged online....

November 21, 2008 · 3 min · 496 words · Matt G

Canadian Government Web Site Infiltrated with Adult Lingerie Affiliate Advertising.

This is rather interesting, it looks like one of the Canadian Governments web site, a place called “The Red Planet” has left blog posting open, and got pwned. According to the Ottawa Citizen article that we were sent, someone logged into the Red Planet web site, which is usually geared towards getting children interested in colonizing mars, and started posting affiliate ads to the site for sexy adult lingerie and sex toys....

November 21, 2008 · 2 min · 279 words · Matt G

The desk

Here’s my desk in a blurry as hell photo. Enjoy.

November 19, 2008 · 1 min · 10 words · Matt G