Category: Education

  • First Blog Post of 2019: E-Waste

    I’ve been researching e-waste and found some disturbing gaps in Canada’s handling of recyclable material.

  • New To Me Laptop

    I’m currently in the middle of reinstalling the operating system on a laptop I acquired from my daughter. An intel i3 system with only 4 gigs of memory. Also the computer’s battery is toast. I need to get these two things fixed. I plan on maxing out the memory – whatever that is – to…

  • Treaty 7 Day at Fort Calgary

    I just wanted to give a quick shout-out for the event being held at a Canadian national historic site, Fort Calgary,  [in Calgary Alberta].  I’d give some links but couldn’t find any events listing anywhere on the net! Place: Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Date: September 22, 2017  

  • World Environment Day

  • Statistics Canada

    I took a short-term contract with Statistics Canada working on the national census that is carried out every 5 years.  I thought I’d do my part by syndicating on of their videos that they produce to educate Canadians on what the census data is used for.  I gotta say that the back-drop for the video…

  • Maps Online

      Esri is putting out some open source API’s. Because of this there are new opportunities with creating plug-ins for WordPress. I was about to link to the ESRI Javascript API and create my own embedded map from ArcOnline. Someone beat me to it, namely Gavin Rehkemper,  With the help of his brand new Plug-in…