iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

Ted Nolan, former coach of the Buffalo Sabers and other good teams, surprised us by wanting to use our department’s facilities to send a message to a hockey coaching workshop in Yellowknife today. A friend of his who works at Brock called us up Thursday afternoon to do it Friday morning. He showed up, we sat him in front of a camera and tried to put an interesting background behind him, and started recording.

I then plugged it into my PowerBook, download the video, titled it, and compressed and published a high and low quality version and published it to a web site (which I won’t give you the URL for!). Later that day the guys in Yellow Knife where able to present it to the group, saving an air flight.

He’s a really nice guy, and had some good comments on coaching in general. How’s a coach-of-the-year and nice guy like that not get renewed by the Sabers? One more reason not to like the Sabers.

It’s old news now, but that’s the only version of the New York Times we get in St. Catharines: Old.

The Thursday December 16th issue of the New York Times had a two page ad paid for by the spreadfirefox.com community, myself included. We all know I’m an advocate for Firefox and Open Source development and I don’t think it’s about free (as in beer) software, it’s about an effective development model that produces good results. So, in appreciation of a product I literally use for over four hours a day I throw some cash towards spreading the word.

You can view the PDF version here (takes FOREVER to load!!!!).