Brett Cannon

Brett Cannon

What security precautions my family should use

UPDATED on 2014-03-13 Every few months you read a news story about how another website has suffered a data breach [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach#Major_incidents] and all of their

What computers my family should use

TL;DR: Family should buy Chrome OS devices [http://www.google.ca/intl/en_us/chrome/devices/] (e.g. Chromebooks) unless they have special needs which aren't supported on that platform,

Some ideas on cleaning up the Senate

When Justin Trudeau announced liberal senators were removed from the caucus [http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-removes-senators-from-liberal-caucus-1.2515273] , I thought it was a good idea. The Canadian Senate [http://en.wikipedia.org/

What will it take for physical media to go away?

While writing my blog post on 4K UHD TVs [http://nothingbutsnark.svbtle.com/what-uhd-tvs-means-maybe] I started to go off on a tangent about what it would take for physical media to become obsolete

What UHD TVs means (maybe)

Now that CES 2014 is over, one of the obvious themes of the show was 4K UHD [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_UHDTV] televisions. Being somewhat of an AV nut (as demonstrated

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