Entries by Pat d'Entremont

How Active are Canadians on Social Media?

December 8, 2015 /1 Comment/in /by

How active are Canadians on Social Media? To get an idea, I did a bit of online research, focusing on three platforms: LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Some rudimentary figures turned out to be quite interesting: Canada has a population of approximately 35 million people. Of those, 11 million (31%) are on LinkedIn, 19 million (54%) […]

Clippy Trivago Video

October 26, 2015 /1 Comment/in /by

Remember Clippy? That animated paper clip thing that zipped around trying to offer help with Microsoft Office? He was as annoying as is the Trivago commercial guy. Here is something else I find annoying. I click on a link to an interesting article only to find out when I get there that it’s in fact […]

Clutter-free

September 15, 2015 /0 Comments/in /by

So Microsoft introduced this “awesome new feature that helps filter your low-priority email”. It is called Clutter, and works like this: A new folder has been added to Outlook, called Clutter, and if Outlook deems certain messages are low-priority, it moves them there. According to Microsoft, this feature “learns” so for example if you move […]

Phone Numbers Need a New Rhythm

August 24, 2015 /0 Comments/in /by

I’ve already blogged about how hard it is these days to make a phone call in Nova Scotia*. And as if that rant wasn’t bad enough, I’ve since thought of even more things to complain about. (In case you need a primer: use 10-digit dialing for local calls, 11 digits (including “1”) for long distance […]