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Note: This post moved from Blogger December 5, 2005

According to seattlepi.com: Microsoft said it would create its new MSN Book Search service by working with the Open Content Alliance

Interesting.

I can only imagine the discussions at Yahoo.

We’ll just have to wait and see how this will add (?) to our everchanging world.

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How sad …

130 whales died after beaching themselves in Tasmania.

Some people speculate it happened because of Navy activities, other researchers say we may never know the reason why.

In any case, it’s sad.

This year I had the opportunity to go whale watching - first with Jamie’s Whaling Station in Tofino, later from the Lower Mainland. What an experience.

[Pause - Disclosure: I admit I might be biased as I actually worked as the General Manager for the company in the Lower Mainland. We parted ways in August [2005].]

Anyway, whale watching is indeed a special experience when you see these magnificent animals. I brought my 4 year old along here locally and we saw about 20 killer whales.

Back to the beaching … 130 whales - that is more whales than we normally see locally. The 3 local pods (family groups) consist of (Summer 2005 data) 95 animals. For regular updates on BC killer whales, check out the BE WHALE WISE blog.

If you are interested in going whale watching from the Lower Mainland, then check out one of the operators in Steveston, BC - Vancouver Whale Watch or Steveston Seabreeze. Feel free to say ROAR sent you
[More Disclosure: I will not make any money on you mentioning my name, but maybe one of the companies will take me and my daughter out (she did not get to go while I was in the industry)]

Watching whales can be very interesting … loosing them to beaching is really sad!

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Note: This post moved from Blogger December 5, 2005

Maybe I need glasses….

The other day we got a Best Buy Buck prize while buying a meal at McDonald’s. I was amazed to see it was a $25 prize.

For nearly a week now I’ve believed I had won $25. Turns out not!

I must be needing glasses - the prize was for $2$CDN. I’ve never seen this setup before, and with the small font size I was fooled.

I was lucky that found out before going there. I was reading about the fellow that won $1 million after kicking a field goal, and there just happened to be an ad for the McD Monopoly Game in that piece.

Back to McD/BB - I’m sure it was designed this way on purpose. This poorly, in my mind, designed game piece is impacting my relationship with BB. I’m quite disappointed with this “deception”.

…maybe I’ll shop somewhere else for a while.

roar at roarweb dot com

Note: Moved from Blogger December 5, 2005

Great news!

The Anti-Spyware Coalition has released the first draft of the consensus Risk Model Description. The document is open for public comment until November 27, 2005.

Great news IF we actually end up with products that help reduce maliciuos, uwanted software on our computers.

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UPDATE: Moved from Blogger December 5, 2005

95 % of all jobs in the Lower Mainland are never posted - or at least that is what I have heard.

That’s a lot of jobs - mostly filled through networking and internal promotions.

I’m available for one of these jobs!

Leads are appreciated - marketing, internet, operations, strategy, management, etc., etc. are all areas of interest. My backround is broad and I enjoy a challenge.

roar at roarweb dot com

UPDATE: This copy copied from Blogger to WordPress December 5, 2005.

In my younger days I loved to take photos - lots of them.

Not sure when I stopped - maybe the day I sold my Minox camera. I just loved that thing - small enough to fit in my pocket … but unfortunately not that simple to focus properly

This spring I sold my old Nikon FA. Together with some lenses, a good flash, my vife’s Pentax K1000 and some more lenses we actually got NEARLY enough to buy Canon S70 digital camera. I thank Kerrissdale Cameras for this opportunity. London Drugs in Richmond’s offer was $30!

It’s mostly my wife using the camera. We like it, although flash photography has its limits - that the camera often shuts down when we touch the sliding front cover is also kind of annoying. We should take it in for a check-up I guess.

We’ll soon reach 5,000 digital photos - mostly of our kids. We used to take quite a bit of 35mm film. I’m thinking London Drugs might even miss us - a week of holiday photos often produced 2-3 rolls … per day!

My interest in photography is coming back. Maybe because now I can play with photos without any large film and development cost? My 7-year old daughter has her own digital camera as well. No zoom, just point-and-shoot. I tell you, buying digital has been a money saver.

For the time being my 4-year old son is happy using the cameras supplied in cereal boxes this summer. Of course, one day he will realize we did not put any film in his camera.

I bought a new printer to be able to print SOME photos at home. Looks like I need a new harddrive as well. Maybe even upgrade my P3-800. And then I’d like to invest in a D-SLR. Maybe I’m not saving so much after all - but at least my interest in photography is back!

Turns out my LinkedIn contact list has a couple of photographers on it as well - Kris Krug and Victor Aberdeen - they’re great photographers - and blogging enthusiasts as well.

It was actually Paul Kedrosky’s blog that had a link to Kris’ Flikr profile that made me think about photography. Why did I read Paul’s blog? I was just following up on the presenters at VEF’s Web 2.0 presentation earlier ths week. I loved Dick Hardt’s Identity 2.0 presentation! More on that later.

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If you can’t get enough sleep during the day … then you’ll have to use the night

unknown … or maybe my own???

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