Darryl Patterson

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Work keeps me quiet!

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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It’s been a very very busy few months at work, I haven’t had the time to blog, but I certainly have been taking notes for some blog posts. I should have some thoughts up over the next few days.

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How to make Farming cool

Thursday, January 24th, 2008
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Take a peek at this, does this kind of marketing appear to farmers? Will a tractor this cool sell? I can’t say, but it is really cool.

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My 1st “in the field” QR Code Sighting

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
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And so it begins, with the CBC no less. I’m on the subway heading to work, looking at a subway takeover for the new TV series The Border, and there in the bottom left hand corner of the posters, is a QR code. Kudos CBC, keep up the good work. Now I just need to […]

Great News for Data Portability

Friday, January 11th, 2008
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First we see Google, Facebook and Plaxo join the DataProtability Workgroup, and now we have individuals from LinkedIn, SixApart, Twitter and Flickr. There is hope! It was starting to look like another “war” was brewing, this time around social networking frameworks, with Google announcing OpenSocial and Facebook backlashing by opening up the Facebook Platform. Hopefully […]

What do you think?

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
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I found a Wordpress theme I really like. I swapped the header image with one of my own. It’s actually a cropped version of a much larger picture. I managed to snap a really nice pic of a sunset over Lake Superior, some of you may have seen the full picture on Facebook. After cropping, […]

Emergency Blog Site!

Monday, October 22nd, 2007
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I recently scrapped my old dedicated box for an easier to manage control panel based setup over at Nexcess. I moved all the sites people pay for, but neglected my own! Being worried about my ranking loss in Google, I set this blog up real quick. I’ll be spending the week customizing it for me.
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