Andrew Fergusson

I'm a third year history student and the Simon Fraser Student Society's Internal Relations Officer. Tall, energetic, loud, impulsive, and stubborn: I'll argue against you and everything you believe, but I'll secretly love you for it.

Homepage: http://www.personalreality.ca/


Posts by Andrew Fergusson

Blackberry Post

December 6, 2009 - 13:59

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Woohoo! I can post Wordpress content on my Blackberry 8330. Rock on.

Michael Geist – The Globalive Decision: Time To Pick Competition Over Canadian Ownership

October 29, 2009 - 20:11

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Michael Geist – The Globalive Decision: Time To Pick Competition Over Canadian Ownership.
I couldn’t agree more with Geist’s call to remove foreign ownership restrictions, but I’d like to see some requirements for communication companies to share cell towers.
Additionally Bell, Telus, Rogers, and Shaw need to be “relieved” of their last mile ownership of communication lines [...]

Countdown’s Best Persons Hits Close to Home

August 16, 2009 - 10:01

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So, watching my Countdown as I always do and it was time for the Best Persons segment. First up was Whole Food’s CEO using Republican talking points against US Health Care reform.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I think Barack Obama is a coward for not trying to bring in single payer — It serves Canada [...]

Andrew’s Geektool Desktop

May 24, 2009 - 21:10

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I’ve constantly been enamoured with what keeners have done with GeekTools as seen on Lifehacker, and the recent Mario desktop got me going. The major project was to reduce disk and memory usage summaries to percentages. The hard drive one was easy enough, but the memory use percentage was headtumper. Nobody, as I could find [...]

TweetDeck the Memory Hog

February 1, 2009 - 12:18

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TweetDeck, a simple twitter client based off of Adobe Air manages to gorge itself on over 200MB of memory, and have a VRAM footprint of over a gig? What the hell is up with this? Are all Adobe Air applications this much of a pig?
What really gets me is that my nightly build of Firefox [...]

Number Two

January 24, 2009 - 15:50

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I came across this at a local restaurant on the way to work on December 15th, 2008 and felt obliged to take a picture. I hope everyone knows why.

Merged Blogs

January 24, 2009 - 14:44

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Now Mark and I now have merged our blogs. This might force ourselves to post more often or it might be yet another failure. We shall see.

Number One

May 25, 2008 - 22:09

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How to create a militant pedestrian

May 11, 2008 - 02:45

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Dear Taxi Drivers,
It has come to my attention you are not used to militant pedestrians; to replicate said militant pedestrianism on your own time please follow the following steps.

Notice the pedestrian at a pedestrian crosswalk demarcated by signs, the hatched crosswalk, and its presence at an obvious intersection.
Have said pedestrian possess ghetto pizza, and of [...]

Apartment Hunting in Vancouver

May 10, 2008 - 20:16

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To all those trying to find an apartment in Vancouver:  be prepared to be hunting for a while.  I’ve been looking for an apartment in some capacity since January, and I’ve yet to find one.  Seriously.  And it’s not like I’ve got unreasonable demands such as granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, and a whirlpool [...]