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Do studded bike tires work? Very well actually! See a video here.

  By Trevor Wright | December 15, 2011 - 3:18 pm | News
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I went out for about an hour today for a ride on the icy trails and sidewalks of Red Deer today. I ended up taking a bunch of videos but all of them except this one turned out way too shaky. For the other videos I had my phone on … Continue reading →

Every tried converting your 3GP videos from your blackberry?

  By Trevor Wright | December 15, 2011 - 1:07 pm | News
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Once again, the open source world saves the day for free! In one simple command, I was easily able to convert my 3GP videos to AVI with something like: ffmpeg -i winterBiking.3GP -f avi some_output_file.avi where, ffmpeg is the name of the FREE program used to do all kinds of … Continue reading →

Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan not going to Attawapiskat?

  By Trevor Wright | December 14, 2011 - 5:41 pm | News
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Plans to meet Chief Theresa Spence in Thunder Bay? I don’t claim to be an expert on this issue whatsoever, but does anyone else out there kind of think he should actually go to Attawapiskat? hmmm….. read more here.

Did the rubber strap break on your winter boot studs?

  By Trevor Wright | December 14, 2011 - 3:59 pm | News
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Have you tried those studs you slip over your boots? I have tried a lot of different kinds in search for a pair that can actually hold up, as almost all of the models I’ve tested end up failing. A lot of the failures involve the rubber straps that you … Continue reading →

CDW Canada – people who don’t get it

  By Trevor Wright | December 13, 2011 - 6:21 pm | News
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I will never cooperate with companies with ad campaigns like this. I should at least have the choice to click their ad or not….They have some ads which I found on www.unix.com which open a new window when you just ‘hover’ over it! I DO NOT appreciate advertising that automatically … Continue reading →

How would you like a free alternative to Microcrap Office?

  By Trevor Wright | December 9, 2011 - 8:41 am | News
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Want a complete replacement for the most popular office suite? Open Office is a free, open source software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available for most platforms and actually performs VERY well compared to MS Office. And because it’s open source, there are … Continue reading →

tested my Nokian studded bike tire today. Awesome!

  By Trevor Wright | December 7, 2011 - 3:39 pm | News
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240 carbide studs. Hand-made in Finland. Ordered a Nokian Hakkapeliitta W240 tire last week from Peter White Cycles which arrived today. You can read all about studded bike tires and descriptions of all the different tires at Peter’s site here. I put the Nokian on the front, and put my … Continue reading →

Does anyone else feel like we are slowly becoming American?

  By Trevor Wright | December 6, 2011 - 8:39 pm | News
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With the new crime bill the Conservatives have passed today, I sometimes feel like we are slowly adopting the ways of our Southern counterparts, even though, from what I have read, statistics CLEARLY show that increasing penalties and minimum sentencing DOES NOT reduce crime rates. I am a proud Canadian, … Continue reading →

Need safety training?

  By Trevor Wright | December 5, 2011 - 4:11 pm | News
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More online courses are available all the time. Check out ECompliance – based in Alberta

Looking for a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop?

  By Trevor Wright | December 4, 2011 - 5:12 am | News
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Introducing the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). Is a fully featured image editing software suite, that is available for Windowz, Mac OS and of course, GNU/Linux operating systems. Best of all it’s free! I’ll write up a short intro to GIMP shortly, so check back soon. Check out http://www.gimp.org/

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