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It has been an absolutely crazy month around here, but I was able to head out west into Kananaskis Country with the family and took a half-day hike around the Sheep River Falls area.  This was an exceptionally good time as my boys are old enough to enjoy the outdoors and put in some good [...]

Things have been going very well at BCCHardware (my alter ego site), and this year we’ve seen growth that has impressed and amazed us.  Not only have we reached the magic “Six Million” hits a month, we have signed up a few new advertisers and sponsors.  It’s pretty darn incredible that it all started out [...]

My life takes a turn in the Youth direction this weekend as I packed up a few kids and we head up north to Edmonton, Alberta to check out YC Alberta 2009.  This is a Christian Youth Conference that features a lot of bands, some great speakers, a lot of fun activities and not a [...]

I live in a single world but have a split personality.  I love technology, computers and such, but my life is also out playing in the dirt.  I guess I never grew out of that stage as a boy.  Spring is here in Alberta and it’s time to get in the field and plant some [...]

With spring here in Alberta comes a lot of outside activity and no more playing video games – especially for the kids.  We have a lot of fun in the downtime going to the little stream that flows past our place and having fun throwing rocks in the water.  I don’t care what generation you [...]

If you’ve got a nice camera – or any camera for that matter, you may wonder how many times you can pull out the card and plug it into your computer without wearing things out.  Quite a while ago I picked up an Eye-Fi card to accompany me on a trip.  This card doesn’t have [...]

I’m certainly no photographer, but I’ve had a bit of fun recently trying to pull off some HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos.  For those of you not familiar with this, the process is really quite simple in principle.  You take 3+ photos of the same subject at different exposure levels and then combine the images [...]

I just finished up a bit of an interesting interview, shop tour and Q&A session with Geoff Lyon of CoolIT Systems in Calgary Alberta.  They touched a few of their current products, where they’ve come from and even dropped a few hints regarding what we can expect from them in the future.  We’ve chopped the [...]

Over at BCCHardware, we’ve wrapped up details regarding our annual March LANParty.  This year we are bringing back the “VulcLAN” in Vulcan, Alberta and are going for a record number of people.  We have some confirmed sponsors already and are sure to have a lot of prizes available again this year.  Last we we gave [...]

CES 2009 has come and gone and we were there to cover the event.  There were a lot of products and companies represented and BCCHardware tried to cover a wide array of products in order to appeal to many different readers.  We managed to cover everything from BFG’s new Phobos system to mobile stuff from [...]