Aug 10th, 2011
At the start of May, a week before my 28th birthday and a few days before my first trip to New York City, I lost my job with DM Solutions. It sounds like terrible timing, but it actually wasn’t so much. Jason and I had already talked about finances and living together, it was just [...]
May 11th, 2011
I believe in releasing data. I believe that governments and agencies paid for by government money should release data that can help people. We paid for the data, and if the data can help us make smarter, better informed decisions, then we should be able to see it. We should be able to access it, [...]
Oct 7th, 2010
A few weeks ago, I got convinced, pretty easily I must admit, to be the Co-Chair of the OSGeo Ottawa Chapter. Apparently this doesn’t require me to do a lot of work, but it still scares the hell out of me. I can talk, a lot, but I generally don’t tend to lead a group [...]
Jun 4th, 2010
What do you get when you combine a bit of craziness, a photo-walk and geocaching? Some pretty awesome photos that manage to not have a single geocache in any of them. You should check out this which I am currently using as my twitter profile pic. You should also check out this, this, this, and [...]
May 19th, 2010
So the City of Ottawa has agreed that they would release some of their data to the public, allowing the public to have a better idea of what is in their city and how it operates. Right off the bat, as soon as it was agreed upon, the flip was switched at their site and [...]