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Wi-Fi Thief

10 Mar

This was in my Google Reader under the suggested items I might like feed. It’s probably the best tech call ever made.

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The caller, a woman in California calls in to Leo Laporte’s show The Tech Guy! She mentions that for the last year and a half she’s logged onto a wireless network in her apartment complex but it’s recently disappeared. She’s gone out and got a wi-fi extender in the hopes of getting the signal back, with no such luck.

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Golden!

28 Feb

“It may just be a game, but it’s OUR game.”

Sydney Crosby celebrating gold medal win

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Finally!

14 Feb

I know I’ve said that I don’t really watch the Olympics, but the men’s moguls were on in the background as S was reading and I was trying out some things in Fireworks and we happened to catch Alexandre Bilodeau win Canada’s first ever gold medal on home soil.

Bilodeau wins Canada's first gold medal on home soil.

Congratulations to Bilodeau!

Exciting Morning at City Hall

10 Feb

When I wrote yesterday that I hoped to see a headline announcing Adam Giambrone’s quitting of the mayoral race, I didn’t expect to see it so soon.

Adam Giambrone quits Toronto Mayoral race

Adam Giambrone quits Toronto Mayoral race

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Exciting Evenings at City Hall

9 Feb

A few weeks ago Adam Giambrone posted a YouTube video announcing that he’s ready to be the mayor of Toronto. Last week, he filed his candidacy papers and held a party with supporters. Yesterday, his political career (and mayoral aspirations) took a hit when The Star published a story in which a 20-year-old woman claimed she had a year-long affair with Giambrone.

To back up her claims, she showed the paper text and Facebook messages purportedly from Giambrone. Kristen Lucas, the young woman, alleges that Giambrone told her that he lived with his brother, all the while living with his partner, Sarah McQuarrie.

Giambrone claims that the relationship consisted only of public meetings and text messages. Lucas says that it went beyond that as they had sex over the course of the year, sometimes on his couch in his office at City Hall.

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