Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Via David Crow, a link to TechVibes' Toronto Start-Up Index for December. I know fewer of these companies than I'd expected to; hope to get to meet the rest some time soon.
b5media
yes
ProductWiki
not yet
AdaptiveBlue
yes
FreshBooks
yes
ZipLocal
not yet
Defensio
not yet
Groovle
not yet
ConceptShare
yes
Sneakerplay
yes
AideRSS
yes
OfficeZilla
yes
Quotiki
yes
Awareness
yes
BumpTop
yes
JobLoft
yes
Domainer
yes
FileMobile
yes
CakeMail
not yet
Onaswarm
yes
YowTRIP
not yet
vLane
not yet
Cosimo
not yet
mDialog
not yet
xkoto
not yet
Zerofootprint
yes
myhood.ca
yes
Octopz
not yet
Clay Tablet
not yet
Semacode
yes
ViaVol
not yet
Cytoscape
yes
EasyPost.ca
not yet
SlashID
yes
Realosophy
not yet
Workspace
not yet
Pursudo
yes
Ogrant
yes
FeelingBullish
not yet
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Please welcome my newest nephew, Caden Lewis Anand Vivegananthan, to the world. He arrived Monday (8 lb, 2 oz); mother and child are doing well, and Esan is thrilled---just thrilled---to have a baby brother.
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Two pieces of good news about DrProject this week. First, a report from one of our external users:
The software has been running reliably for so long I forgot how to restart it. For your info, it has been running reliably since August, and the only reason I had to restart ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
A team of 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology cyclists highlighted the range of energy activities at MIT in a unique way Tuesday by using bicycles to power a supercomputer conducting research on nuclear fusion. The computer run was the largest human-powered computation in history. (from Supercomputing Online)
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Being tired makes you stupid.
When you're stupid, you make mistakes.
Mistakes cost you time.
Trying to make up for lost time makes you tired.
Hey---haven't I been here already?
Can't wait for this term to be over...
But on the bright side, we're having a DrProject/OLM/UTest hack-a-thon on January 4-6. Jeff's coming up from Florida, ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Adam Goucher has reminded me that Agile 2008 will be in Toronto (August 4-8). I'm hoping I'll be able to attend --- it looks like it'll be a good show.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
U of T's Blue Sky Solar Team finished first among Canadian entrants, fifth out of 18 in the Adventure class, and twelfth overall out of 37 entries in the Solar Challenge in Australia. Yay, team!
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Every year, Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council provides hundreds of scholarships to give undergraduates a chance to spend a summer working with a professor on a research project. My first programming job was a USRA for Prof. Selim Akl at Queen's in 1982, and many other faculty and ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Robert Kahn (co-inventor of TCP/IP, among other things) is speaking at U of T on Tuesday, December 11. His talk is titled "Managing Digital Objects on the Net" --- it's open to the public, and I hope to see a lot of you there.
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Sunday, December 9th, 2007
...and a plush toy design tool that reminds me a lot of Ryan Schmidt's ShapeShop3D demo.
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