Archive for the 'General' Category

Where did mattclare.ca go?

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

The bottom line: I didn’t get your E-Mail last week, please re-send it. Sorry about that. Here’s the story: I’m in the process of consolidating my DNS names/services at http://Hover.com. Hover.com is retail side of the Canadian internet stalwart TuCows.com. Hover offers a service for $25 for their concierge to handle DNS address transfers to… Continue Reading Where did mattclare.ca go?

Results Canadians Have Been Waiting For

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Here are the results you’ve been waiting for: the results of http://RimCount.com tracking of the Roll Up The Win Campaign from a large Canadian Coffee and Donut chain. http://RimCount.com collected tweets with the hastag #rolluptherim and extracted ratios and recorded them. The site really took off when it started tweeting back with the Twitter account… Continue Reading Results Canadians Have Been Waiting For

BlackBerry Playbook

Monday, April 4th, 2011

The BlackBerry Playbook coming out on April 19th has some familiar plays in it – if you grew-up in Ontario: RIM is a Waterloo-based company RIM is/was known for their trackball The device is running the QNX operating system, developed by Waterloo/Ottawa-based QNX Software Systems (which RIM just bought) The screen and input device is… Continue Reading BlackBerry Playbook

Fantasy Formula 1

Monday, March 21st, 2011

As the 2011 season is almost upon us I’m once again encouraging you to sign-up for Mitch & Brooke’s F1 Fantasy Racing League at http://www.fantasyautoracers.com/f1_01/ This will be Mitch & Brooke’s F1 Fantasy Racing League 14th year in a row and my third participating. I encourage you to make your team to compete against ZERO… Continue Reading Fantasy Formula 1

RimCount.com RRRR’eturns

Friday, February 25th, 2011

My little hobby web site for tracking your luck with a large Canaidan coffee and donuts chain’s roll-up promotion is back! My previous attempt was Drupal-based, and required an account. I was never very happy with the account requirement, and played with it being a facebook App but ultimately took the site down (described in… Continue Reading RimCount.com RRRR’eturns