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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
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An A.I. Presentation for a local Rotary Club
The Halifax Harbour Rotary Club asked for a 15-minute presentation about A.I. and its impact on businesses.
Continue ReadingBell Aliant fibre to the home/office project - TJ gets it wrong again
Ah, the Telegraph Journal. It's been a hard week for them with the editor fired and the publisher suspended - by his father, no less - for some creative editing that resulted in an...
Continue ReadingIrving Newspaper apologizes to Prime Minster Harper: Oops. We made it up.
This has all the hallmarks of a darkly modern divine comedy.
We have a former Governor General - the late Romeo LeBlanc - laid to rest in his small home town in New Brunswick...
Continue ReadingThe Pharamaceutical Spammer - interview by forum
It wasn't easy registering for the Westhost forums (westhostspam@oneofourdomains) didn't work, so I was forced to be a bit more creative and circumspect.
And while conducting an...
Continue ReadingOn the trail of an online pharmaceutical spammer
I'm not sure how much info to provide here - since I don't want to tip my hand - so this will be a bit vague for now:
Several months ago, spam started coming in from a pharmaceutical...
Continue ReadingAbusing the Do Not Call List
Despite the hue and cry about telemarketers using Canada's offical Do Not Call List as a source of valid names and phone numbers (CBC story), my home number is on the list.
But that...
Continue ReadingSome of the spammers we're tracking and why
We've been annoyed by spammers nearly as long as we've been online - and that's more than 20 years. We've been managing our own mail servers since 1994 and have watched with dismay as...
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