Category Archives: Personal
Try And Tell Me The Touch Interface Isn’t The Future
After seeing my daughter over the past few weeks use and really understand the iPad user interface, my experience at the Apple store today with my daughter completely convinced me. The future of the computer interface is a touch screen. … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Fatherhood, User Interaction, iPad
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Wanted
This strikes very close to home for me – about 4 years ago I passed on a job at the 11th hour, after signing the offer letter, after giving notice at my old job. In hindsight it was a very … Continue reading
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The Hospital Where My Daughter Was Born…
Created a really cool video to raise awareness about breast cancer (I get misty eyed seeing the different spots we’ve been in during the video):
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In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We … Continue reading
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Unhealthy America – NYTimes.com
Worth the read, some choice quotes: “I will never forget standing outside the chemo treatment room knowing that the medication needed to save my life was only a few feet away, but that because I had private insurance it wasn’t … Continue reading
Fall Colours
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Fall Colours, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont. Testing my new Canon S90. I’m going off … Continue reading
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Please consider supporting me in a Parkinson’s Walk in Calgary next month
This September I will be returning to Canada to participate in a walk on the 12th to raise funds for Parkinson’s research. My family in Canada (pictured above) have been doing it for years now, to support my father, who … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Personal
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Great quote
Great quote on my cousin Evan’s wall on Facebook – its very true: “You can avoid reality but you can’t avoid the consequences of avoiding reality!” I’ve asked him who said it – I’m presuming it wasn’t him. If it … Continue reading
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Birdfeed for the iPhone OS is released!!
My friend Buzz Anderson’s Twitter application Birdfeed was released this afternoon by Apple. I’ve had the great fortune of being able to help test this the past few months, and even with all the other great iPhone Twitter clients out … Continue reading
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Del Oro theater in downtown Grass Valley
Del Oro theater in downtown Grass Valley, originally uploaded by Lucien W. Dupont. Pretty good picture for the iPhone.
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