I haven’t logged on since poor Carin exploded a couple of years ago and come to think of it it may be even further back than that, but there was a time when I quite enjoyed wasting away my free time playing RS Games. If any of you remember ever playing against someone named Angus …
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Thank you, Bingemans Waterpark
I wanted to write a post to say thanks to a local business. I do a lot of screeching and chewing, so it’s nice to be able to say something positive. That business is Bingemans. The folks at my awesome job had an employee and family picnic there. My first reaction was “Woooohooo! I’ve never …
Another Way To Help Out Fort McMurray: Buy Or Listen To A Song
Fort McMurray Band Releases Song Dedicated to First Responders During the Wildfire With the Fort McMurray wildfire still affecting the evacuated communities, local band Freedom’s Note has just released a song about it. Called “The Fight”, band members Donny Synard and Danny Frewer wrote the song dedicated “to firefighters and first responders that acted with …
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Help Sassy Outwater
Wow, I feel like I’m on a roll of sad stories. But at least this story isn’t over yet. Back a while ago, I started noticing tweets from Sarah (Sassy) Outwater. Most of the ones I saw were about access denials from Uber, but there were other ones too. When she got retweeted, which was …
Helping The Folks from Fort McMurray
Whenever I think about Fort McMurray, and the fire that raged through there and burned down lots of homes and buildings, I feel this huge emptiness in my chest and this feeling of overwhelming helplessness. How do you help a community that needs so much? Well, thankfully the good people at Maclean’s have gathered up …
Try Out Dictation Bridge, Kind Of
Since Carin and I have talked a couple of times about Dictation Bridge, we thought some of you might be interested in trying out the proof of concept code that the team behind the project has just released. This is Proof-Of-Concept code, which means that it is used to show that what we claim is …
Help Fund Dictation Bridge And Bring Affordable Voice Recognition Technology To Screenreaders
Back in February, Carin mentioned the great potential of Dictation Bridge, a software package that, if developed, would provide voice recognition functionality to a range of screenreaders at no cost. At the time she wrote that post it was still a shell of an idea at least in the promotional sense, and it turned out …
The Arrogant Worms Would Like Your Help Funding Their Hopefully Very Long Goodbye
The Arrogant Worms are crowdfunding another album. Sadly, it’s their farewell album. Well, their first farewell album, anyhow. We want to put out a new album for our 25th year but we NEED YOUR HELP! The Arrogant Worms have been cranking our melodic Canadian comedy for a quarter of a century now. And a big …
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Have A Look At Dictation Bridge
I’ve been hearing about a funding project for something called Dictation Bridge, which is supposed to make it so people using NVDA or whatever screen-reader can hear what they’re typing when using dictation software like Dragon. I thought it was a cool idea, and meant to send them some dough. Then they made a promo …
The Lee S. Shenk memorial fund
I have been meaning to write this one down for weeks. Oh well, better late than never I guess. Shortly after Lee Shenk passed away, I got news that a memorial fund was set up in his honour. If you want to help his family, there it is. Yes I know it’s been a while, …