WordPress – Where’s my Domain?

This blog used to be found at PetesView.net.  I purchased the domain through WordPress.com but now it’s in no-mans land.
WordPress says some one else owns it, I can’t understand how that could happen.
I first bought the domain through WordPress.com on Nov 23, 2006 and renew it annually.
This year I renewed on Nov 17 using WordPress.com’s [...]

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Test Post

I’m having problems with my custom url (petesview.net) as it is showing only in rss form.
This test is to see if content published on the peteview.wordpress.com displays immediately on petesview.net

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Government stimulus for Tech

In advance of the budget on Tuesday my local MPP is having a community event to identify economic priorities. Here’s what I sent him:

Ottawa is losing its tech industry. Changes in several areas of government regulation and approach could have a huge stimulative effect by leveraging personal and institutional investment.

Investment in [...]

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What I’ve learned about Programming

A month and a half a go I wrote I was learning to code. That was probably a bit premature. While I have a much deeper understanding of what’s involved – my project has stalled.
After weeks, and weeks of reading – and trying lines of code that don’t work – and then searching and reading [...]

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Learning to Code

For years I’ve been on the business side of technology.
Software was a black box of objects passing parameters and data to other objects. Conceptually it’s pretty easy to describe those relationships and feel comfortable throwing around names of API commands, discussing the merits of frameworks, and explaining how objects inter-related and the testing paradigms that [...]

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D-Link(ed) customer support

Some time ago I bought a D-Link DI-524 to use at the local DemoCamp I organize.
First time out the thing wouldn’t work. No wireless connection! No LAN connection! It wasn’t because of lack of trying or expertise, as we had a room full of network engineers. I should have returned it to Futureshop then and [...]

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Innovative Business Cultures

Bob Lefsetz points to a great quote from Universal Music CEO Doug Morris on why the music industry couldn’t develop a new business model as technology started to shift to digital delivery:
There’s no one in the record industry that’s a technologist,” Morris explains. “[It’s] a misconception … that the record industry missed this. They didn’t. [...]

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Widgets and Community Ecosystems

One of the projects I was working on recently used widgets to display constantly changing time sensitive and site specific information across a hierarchical family of enterprise web sites. Each site’s widget could be configured to only display information relevant to the audience of that site making it a powerful tool to build connection with [...]

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Consumer Media and NetNeutrality

Came across a good video explaining the importance of NetNeutrality.
Worth a look – and some effective action to ensure we keep what we’ve got.

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