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 If you are reading this blog post then chances are we have met at some point in the past. You’re either a friend, family member, colleague, classmate, business acquaintance, or someone I have met as I have travelled across Canada and around the world.
As you may or may not know, my wife (Michelle) and I have been involved with fundraising events for cancer research since 2003 when Michelle’s aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer and the weekend to end cancer walk first came to Toronto.
Since that time we have either walked or crewed in 7 more events in Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, and London (UK).
We have been away from these events for the past few years while raising our family, however, in January 2009 Michelle’s mom was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of lung cancer, and within 3 weeks of the diagnosis, had passed away. You can read the full story at http://snipr.com/bernice_white. The speed and aggressiveness of cancer made us realize we needed to get back into fundraising to fight cancer and in June 2010, I’ll be on the bike to ride the 200km from Toronto to Niagara Falls. It will be a challenge in a number of ways, but with my bike, my helmet, and your generosity, I know we can make an impact.
Please contribute to this history-making event with a donation. Funds raised in The Ride to Conquer Cancer will support breakthrough research, exemplary teaching, and compassionate care at The Princess Margaret, one of the top 5 cancer research centres in the world.
To give you a sense of perspective, according to the National Cancer Institute of Canada, over 153,100 new cases of cancer and 70,400 deaths from cancer were estimated to occur in 2006. Men outnumber women for new cases by 5% and mortality by 11%. That's why I'm riding. To do something BIG about cancer. I hope that you'll share this incredible adventure with me by supporting me in my fundraising efforts.
To donate, please visit http://www.conquercancer.ca/goto/Barnaby
Thank you in advance for your support.
Barnaby
Flickr Tags: RideToConquer
Twitter Tags: #RideToConquer
UPDATE: As I have changed hosting providers, the following information no longer applies, however, is left as a reference for others who may be trying to get IPv6 up and running.
A couple of months ago I got IPv6 up and running at home, now that I have that working, the next logical step was to setup a server that I could connect to using IPv6. Over the last few weeks I have been working on getting http://barnabyjeans.ca to not only speak IPv4 but also be accessible over IPv6. The good news is that this is now working and you can access this site over IPv6. If you are experimenting with IPv6, you should automatically connect over IPv6 as there are both A and AAAA records setup for that server. However, if you have IPv6 setup but name resolution isn’t working you may want to try accessing the site via the following http://[2001:470:1f04:39a::2] (depending on your operating system, this may or may not work). You should notice down at the bottom of the page (under the community server logo) is the IP address you are connecting from. If you are hitting the server over IPv6, you should see your IPv6 address down there, if not, you will see your traditional IPv4 address.
» Continue reading barnabyjeans.ca goes IPv6
The past few weeks have been a roller coaster of emotion as my Mother-in-law (Bernice) was flown home from her winter RV’ing in the US southwest and in Mexico only to find out that the health problem she was having was lung cancer and she only had months to live. Unfortunately the timing wasn’t nearly correct and she passed away early last week. The full write up and timeline is posted on my in-laws’ blog at http://www.whitesrvjournal.com/archives/2009/02/one_final_journ.html. Once you have read that, continue on with this post as I want to share the role technology has played over the past few months.
» Continue reading Life, Death, and Technology
I have just found a very cool new application on the Microsoft site called Microsoft Tags (http://www.microsoft.com/tags). Basically what this does is allow you to encode either a vCard, a URL, or a phone number into a 2D image that can then be read and decoded with a camera phone.
If you visit http://gettag.mobi from your mobile phone (including Blackberry and Android) you’ll be able to download the reader that will decode this file and provide you with my vCard. For iPhone users you can visit the App Store and download Tag Reader.
If you want my work contact info, all you need to do is scan. I may just have to include one of these on my next business cards.
With two weeks to go until we kick off TechDays in Toronto, the team is doing the final preparations to deliver an amazing experience to everyone who attends.
One of the things that I’ll be taking care of during the events is photography. I’ve already got the Nikon D200 and D300 ready to go, and with any luck I’ll have Nikon D90 in time for the conference as well. The guys at Nikon are absolutely amazing and make sure that my team have access to the latest gear to capture and share the experience at the event for those of you who aren’t able to attend. Of course I’ll be posting the photos to my flickr page as well as to the TechDays group on flickr. I’ll also be tagging everything with TechDays_CA.
» Continue reading Getting Ready for TechDays
I’ve just arrived in Ottawa to spend a couple of days at the Social Media for Government conference. I will be speaking at this conference on Wednesday afternoon. I spoke at a similar ALI conference earlier this year and blogged about that experience.
While it’s too early in the day to comment on the conference you can follow along on twitter, the posts are being tagged with #ALI.
If you are attending the conference and want to connect you can find me at the following:
I’m pretty open about people using the photos I post to flickr as I have them under a Creative Commons license. I always enjoy seeing where they land.
The most recent one is a Paul Tracy photo that I took with my Nikon D200 in Toronto on July 6, 2007. The photo is included in a post about Paul Tracy making his return at the Edmonton Indy this weekend – The 'Thrill From West Hill' Is Back! | Element of Speed
Here is the original photo and link back to the set on Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/barnaby_jeans/sets/72157600689404182/
I’ve just finished catching up on my RSS reader and came across the following post from Sarah on the Channel 10 site.
WPF Disk Space Finder | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10
In summary this application gives you a quick and easy way to see what is using the disk space on your machine. What makes this even better is the fact that it is a WPF app and is deployed using ClickOnce deployment.
Direct link to Disk Space Finder: http://www.diskspacefinder.com
One of the things I love about working for Microsoft (and I think I have mentioned before) is the fact that I get to take days off to volunteer my time in the community. Today was one of those days.
Today I spent the day volunteering with the Sears National Kids Cancer Ride (SNKCR) during their stop in Toronto. It's a ride from coast to coast to raise money to help children live with and beyond cancer. My portion of the day was spent at Trinity Square as well as Sick Kids Hospital for various parts of the event.
Not only did I have the chance to photograph all the cyclists that have been riding from Vancouver, but also the local riders who are riding on this stage of the route.
At Sick Kids there were speeches from Dr. Blanchette from Sick Kids as well as the President of Sears Canada. While down at Trinity Square there were speeches from Toronto Mayor David Miller as well as the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, David Onley. I have met David Onley a couple of times in the past during his time at CP24, so it was a pleasure to say hello to him again today.
I'll be posting all my photos to flickr over the next few days, so keep checking the following address: http://flickr.com/photos/barnaby_jeans/sets/72157605602589479/
I spent most of my day today at the Advanced Learning Institute's Social Media Summit Canada where I was both a case study speaker, and had the opportunity to listen to some great presentations and meet some great people.
While the summit is a 4 day affair (full agenda), I was the lead off speaker for the first of the two main summit days. Being the first speaker in the morning usually means people wandering in late, and still getting their first cup of coffee into them. The group this morning were ready to go right at the start and had some great questions for both my session and the sessions that followed.
Right after my session the organizers did a quick speed networking session, which basically meant going around the room and having the 50+ attendees identify who they were, what they did, and what they hoped to get out the conference. This not only helped to set the tone and the conversation for the rest of the day, but also helped identify people you may want to connect with.
As I mentioned, part of the value of these events is in the people that you meet and get to chat to. There were a couple that I found particularly interesting today:
Carmine Porco, GM & VP at Prescient Digital Media was the chair for the day and kept everyone on track, as well as jumping in a few times to help out speakers with technical issues.
Eli Singer, Director of Social Media with Segal Communications. I've had the chance to chat with Eli at a couple of these types of conferences and he is definitely a resource to connect with if you have the chance.
The team from Region of Waterloo. As I live within the region of Waterloo, I was particularly interested to hear that there was a group at the conference from my part of the Southern Ontario. I had the chance to chat with them over lunch and I think they have some great ideas to take back to the office. As a resident, I can't wait to see what they come up with.
Preston Lewis, Director of Talent & Partnerships at Bonfire Communications. As Preston is based in San Francisco we had great conversation about one of my past employers and one of his current customers.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to stick around to hear how my colleague David Crow did on the panel that Eli was hosting. I'll keep an eye out for a blog post on that.
Overall, a fun day, and a great learning opportunity for those people looking to get a better understanding of social media and how they can start to incorporate it into their plans.
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