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Here we go again

The City of Saskatoon came out with their strategic plan and it reads and looks good. As I was looking through it (finally after saskatoon.ca was down all last night), I couldn’t help but notice three of the photos were taken from my Flickr account without my permission. Again. It’s happened before and I was [...]

Early anniversary gift

Oct 1st, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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I had wanted to upgrade Wendy’s Samsung Link for a while now as Virgin Mobile has had some entry level Android smartphones out for a while. Every time I went out and looked, they were sold out. I finally tracked one down today at Best Buy and decided to pick up a Samsung Galaxy 550. [...]

A quick proposal to make Saskatoon a better place to live

Jun 12th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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This afternoon Wendy, Mark, and Oliver are at the 2011 Caswell Arts Festival. It’s a great event and a lot of fun. One problem, we almost missed out on it because we never heard of it until the last minute. I am not blaming the organizers or anyone else. They have always done a good [...]

In Focus

Feb 10th, 2011

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Alan Taylor, who created The Big Picture as a side project at the Boston Globe has moved to The Atlantic Monthly where he is curating a new photoblog called In Focus for them. Regular readers of the site (and staff at work) know about my passion for The Big Picture and it’s nice to see [...]

The Three Year Old Camera

Jan 21st, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Jason Kottke has a great post on the results of giving his three year old a camera for Christmas. But often the camera is a tool for him. Yesterday morning we were trying to build a boat out of blocks…"the same as we built last week," Ollie said to me. I couldn’t remember how we’d [...]

About.Me

Jan 14th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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I usually don’t get that excited about sites like this but about.me does a great job of creating personal website/contact pages that professionally pulls together weblogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Foursquare, YouTube, and other web services into one page with a user defined URL which makes it perfect for your Twitter bio, a business card, or [...]

An Ollie in the family room

Jan 9th, 2011

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Oliver pulled out his skateboard today and spend some time ripping up the family room. Click here for the entire photoset.

Opening up Saskatoon’s Archives

Jan 4th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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I wasn’t sure what I was looking for last night but I ended up at the Saskatoon Public Library’s database of archival images. I checked out some old historic collections from Saskatoon’s past but I have to admit that it wasn’t the easiest to use, it was slow, you can’t save any images, and it [...]

My 2011 Life List

Dec 31st, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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instead of a New Years Resolution, here is my list of things I want to get done in 2011. The personal goals first Take a photo each day of 2011 and post it to my Project 365 set on Flickr. I’ll also post some to the Project 365 group. This is designed to force me [...]

Blackberry Curve Build Out

Dec 30th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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On the 27th I went to Best Buy to take a look at DSLR’s on sale. I didn’t see any DSLRs but while I was there, I saw that Koodo had dropped their price on Blackberry Curves to $150 and no contract. I had thought about getting a LG Rumor 2 this year but after [...]

Grading out Yahoo!’s Carol Bartz

Dec 16th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Thomas Hawk’s Open Letter to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz I dispute both your grades of B- and “pass.” I’d give you a fail for your first two years. A failure to grow the stock price. A failure to inspire the troops. A failure to innovate. I wouldn’t care so much except for the fact that [...]

Why I Love Creative Commons (and Flickr)

Oct 25th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Long time readers of this blog know how much I love Flickr and over the years I have uploaded about 12,000 photos to the site. Photography is one of those things that I am not that good at but I really enjoy and it is one of the things that Wendy, Mark, and I all [...]

HBR: Ten Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life

Aug 1st, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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Harvard Business Review lists ten reasons to stop trying to justify having a blog, using Twitter, and posting some photos to Flickr. When you commit to being your real self online, you discover parts of yourself you never dared to share offline. When you visualize the real person you’re about to e-mail or tweet, you [...]

Christmas Gifts Ideas for Boys Under Two Year of Age

Nov 29th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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Who would have thought that Oliver would be so hard to shop for. I don’t remember Mark being so hard to shop for when he was a year and a half but then I realized that so many things I wanted to get Oliver are still sitting in storage because we already bought them for [...]

Google Chrome vs Windows 7

Nov 19th, 2009

by Jordon Cooper.

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I awaited the news about Google Chrome OS today with some interest to see if it was going to provide me with some guidance over whether I should finally give up Windows and move to Chrome OS. The advantages of Chrome can be found in the video below. It’s faster and really optimized for the [...]