Towing a Tokyo taxi in Toronto

Mr. Taxi must have parked in the wrong place.

Brogramming @NoteWagon

NoteWagon secures CYBF Innovation Fund

This story is covered in the National Post and a bunch of other newspapers in Canada today. The best part about this process was pitching at the Spin Master HQ - a major toymaker - with an office so full of fun, how do you resist not having fun at work?

Rise of the machines

My laptop couldn't have picked a better time to die. Luckily, my reserve army was able to pull me through the weekend deadlines! Not often does one have to use all three major operating systems simultaneously: Windows XP SP3 auf Deutsch, OSX 10.4 Tiger on PowerPC, and Linux Ubuntu 11.04 on an ancient Pentium 3 machine.

Hope to demobilizes soon! What should I get for my next machine?

Code 404

Nosh: 404 from Firespotter Labs on Vimeo.

Google uses 0.01% of the world's electricity

This is quite amazing, but more amazing that it only uses 0.01% to run almost a million servers. I hope they also have good countermeasures against terrorists or military strikes.

http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/google-runs-900000-servers-uses-0-01-of-worlds-electricity-2011081/

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