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O Canada!

Last night’s performance of O Canada during the first game of the 2011 Stanley Cup finals was a great performance. Love that the singer lets the crowd carry the anthem for a while. Go Canucks Go!

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The Dark Side of Domain Name Expiration

A client recently decided to let an old domain name of theirs expire.  It was not the domain name they were using on the e-mail, print materiel, etc. any longer, and saw no reason to keep paying the registration fee. A few weeks later, this decision would turn out to be a big mistake.  Their [...]

GC20.ca Sites Back Online

The gc20.ca services, including Mobile GEDS, the mobile.gc20.ca portal and and the i.gc20.ca URL Shortener are back online. are back online.  Sorry for the disruption today.

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Surpass Hosting Outage

Hi All, The gc20.ca domain, which hosts several handy tools including the Mobile GEDS project and the i.gc20.ca URL Shortener project, is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Surpass Hosting, who’s servers hold these wonderful goodies, has experienced problems during a scheduled maintenance of their data center this morning.  They are currently working on resolving the issue. [...]

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Mobile GEDS Usage Graphs (November 2009 – August 2010)

Mobile GEDS has been running for a while now, so I thought I’d take a look at its usage stats. The first query was just to see what language the site was being queried in. More interesting is the usage by device/browser.  For the sake of this graph, I grouped all the Blackberry models together, [...]

Can we not just enjoy the Games?

I read a headline this afternoon in the Ottawa Citizen that really rubbed me the wrong way: “Heritage minister criticizes lack of French in Olympic opening ceremony“. The article quotes Heritage Minister James Moore as saying the ceremonies should have been “a better representation of our bicultural past and the reality today”. This is the [...]

Welcome to ShawnHooper.ca Version 2.0

I’ve been maintaining personal websites for myself in various forms since the mid 1990′s.  They have always served as a place for me to host things that I, or people I know may find interesting: links, photos, documentation of my travels, my resumé, etc. I got an e-mail from my aunt a few weeks ago [...]

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