Personal website of Michael Glenn
- My Road to HD
For years I’ve watched with envy as others purchased their high definition flat screen televisions. Then a few weeks before Christmas my wife remarked that HD televisions had come down in price and would we be interested in purchasing one? Yes we would. We’re big movie watchers and have grown to love our PVR for [...]
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- Behold the Power of the Twitter
The terrible news out of Mumbai was a global news event that really showed me how Twitter is so well integrated into the social networking news stream. Last Monday night, the Toronto tech community amplified the power of Twitter.
I recently started using TweetDeck to follow my Twitter stream. Besides separating my public and private timelines, [...]Popularity: 34% [?]
- Please Explain AGO Policies
My wife and I renewed our lapsed AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) memberships this month and took our first trip to see the new galleries. I left the camera at home because I was fairly certain they had and still have a no photography policy. Upon checking in, I was reviewing their new policies and [...]
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- My Top 10 iPhone Apps
Colleen Diamond is contemplating the iPhone switch. She asked me today what my favourite applications were. Here are my current top 10.
10.TimmyMe (Free)
If you are Canadian, Tim Horton’s is an institution. TimmyMe is a free locator that lists the five closet Tim Horton’s to your current location. It will launch the Google Maps app to [...]Popularity: 92% [?]
- Flash 10 Still a Poor Performer on Macs and Linux
YouTube recently switched to a widescreen format and while browsing around to test out the quality I was still shocked at the poor performance of Flash on a Mac, specifically with video. The playback is jerky and constantly pauses in both Firefox and Safari. Restarting the browser helps a bit but by no means solves [...]
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- 2.2 Podcasts - Right Order but Download Flaw
The iPhone 2.2 update brought a handful of new features including a few updates to the iPod application.
I gladly realized after a day of listening to Podcasts that episodes appear in the order they were downloaded. This means that you can start at the oldest and not have to skip backwards to listen to the [...]Popularity: 92% [?]
- Rogers un-connected calls?
For the past few weeks I’ve noticed a higher percentage of calls to my iPhone on Rogers that go straight to voicemail without ringing the phone.
These occur in metro Toronto (at least) with full 3G signal strength. I am sometimes actively using the phone either with data or an application but more often than not [...]Popularity: 100% [?]
- The Developer Hat
Recently our small team’s development schedule was seriously slipping. Although the Mythical Man Month tells us adding resources doesn’t make a project go faster I had enough product and domain knowledge to speed things up and start coding.
It’s been been almost a year since I’ve been coding as part of a project and since that [...]Popularity: 89% [?]
- Home Depot Service
After an eternity of searching for a matching fume hood filter it turns out that I have to special order it from Home Depot. As I said before, service keeps me coming back and Elaine at Home Depot Leaside went above and beyond.
I was transferred to her on the floor and she wasn’t exactly the [...]Popularity: unranked [?]
- Medical Myths
As the family know-it-all it is my responsibility to pepper conversations with almost useless knowledge and myth shattering news.
It is with great pleasure that I pass along these recent medical revelations. Here’s the original study in the British Medical Journal.There’s a lack of medical evidence showing you need to down eight glasses of water [...]
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