Category: Internet

  • Random Surfing, That’s What I like

    It’s not often I get a chance to random surf. But I took a little break to do just that. Here’s what I found: Flash, Not Flash Gordon…okay maybe him too Flash animation was great at the beginning, but it was always difficult to share and embed elsewhere. When social media came along, there were…

  • Facebook and Phishing for Catfish

    I am seriously wondering when the worlds attraction to social media will implode. I’ve been waiting for over a decade now. Take care of your own data! I’ve just heard on the following podcast that Huber Engineered Wood Ltd. used Instagram to educate clients about improvements in building techniques and product use. The account got…

  • What 3 Words Are You?

    One of my favorite mapping tools is what3words. I’ve updated the contact forms to include a location autosuggest for filling out a 3word address. The CSS keeps messing up the display, but that’s another days work.

  • 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…

  • Days Of My Life I Can’t Get Back

    I decided to update to a new computer and do a fresh install of Windows 10. The old system I was using has Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop. I say has since it is still acting as my document server. One week later and I’ve got most things working. It was so much more than…

  • 15 Years of Website Development by Yours Truly

    Prove it! It’s actually 17 years, but I can only prove I’ve been making websites since 2001.  That’s when The Wayback Machine took it’s first snapshot of my personal website.  Here is the link to snapshot of my page back then: http://web.archive.org/web/20010620104307/http://www.telusplanet.net/public/tomgh/ And here is the directory of all 32 archive shots: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.telusplanet.net/public/tomgh/ The Wayback…