Colbourne School for Sale

An interesting opportunity to own a whole school, including your own gym!

13k sq-ft. 5+ acres with a playground. Fire alarms!

All this for under $400k and less than 1 hour to Toronto (without traffic, of course)

Quinte and District Association of REALTORS® Inc.: "Excellent building built in 1961. A one storey brick and stone trimmed building with a central hall plan. Features are a gym, large play area, paved road, parking & driveways, new water well installed in 1999-boiler replaced in 2000-life safety upgrades completed in 2007. Roofing replaced in 1992 and 1995. Area of the building is 12839.5 sq ft. Yard size is 5.06 acres. The property is located on a large flat hill top, it has magnificent view of the surrounding country side. Property is being sold as is."

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Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience

Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience: "To summarize, in the context of Angry Birds, success is bound up in slowing down that which could be fast, erasing that which is easily renewable, and making visual that which is mysterious and memorable."

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Steve Jobs' Final Words Revealed By Biological Sister | Fox News

 

“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”

Steve Jobs' Final Words Revealed By Biological Sister | Fox News

Steve Yegge - Google+ - Last week I accidentally posted an internal rant about…

For those of you that are a bit verbose when writing up material for a presentation or business document, here’s a simple approach to make things more concise.

Here is how I prepared. Amazon people, take note. This will help you. I am dead serious.
To prepare a presentation for Jeff, first make damn sure you know everything there is to know about the subject. Then write a prose narrative explaining the problem and solution(s). Write it exactly the way you would write it for a leading professor or industry expert on the subject.
That is: assume he already knows everything about it. Assume he knows more than you do about it. Even if you have groundbreakingly original ideas in your material, just pretend it’s old hat for him. Write your prose in the succinct, direct, no-explanations way that you would write for a world-leading expert on the material.
You’re almost done. The last step before you’re ready to present to him is this: Delete every third paragraph.
Now you’re ready to present!

I left the 3rd paragraph in to prove Steve’s point.   Does “Now you’re ready to present!” really need to be there?  Or is it like Americanizing a movie ending, where the entire movie needs to be recapped to the audience who wasn’t smart enough to figure things out for themselves?

I like tips like these, they’re very easy to follow and can fit into your everyday email conversations too.

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Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters

Is Google really a search engine?  Is Facebook a social networking site? An interesting article about Facebook’s new open-source datacenter architecture.  Google isn’t really a search engine, it’s just a means to track eyeballs for marketers.  Facebook isn’t really a social networking site, it’s a means to track everything about those eyeballs for marketers.

The idea that Google and Facebook are somehow competing with one another in the datacenter space may sound odd at first, given that most people are used to thinking of Google somewhat vaguely as an ad-supported software company. But as we're fond of pointing out, Google is essentially a maker of very capital-intensive, full-custom, warehouse-scale computers—a "hardware company," if you will. It monetizes those datacenters by keeping as many users as possible connected to them, and by serving ads to those users. To make this strategy work, it has to hire lots of software people, who can write the Internet-scale apps (search, mainly) that keep users connected and viewing ads. Since the price of Google ads is set largely independently of Google's cost of delivery, every dollar of efficiency that Google can wring out of one of these large computers is a dollar that goes to the bottom line.

Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters

Why don’t we have the five-computer mentality of the past, with redundant parts and power systems, instead of thousands of commodity machines spinning away?  Does the world really need more than 5 computers?  Unlike the aforementioned article, a cluster of data centers is not a computer in my mind.

Perhaps we need a biological computer?  By the definition above of a data center cluster being a computer, an assembly line could be considered a biological-mechanical computer.  What if the assembly line was controlled by a small pond containing neurons? No more data center, no more power consumption, no more cooling issues. 

Here’s to hoping they haven’t figured out how to get those neurons to multiply yet… sounds like The Matrix to me.

Top10.com » News » Apple reveals most popular iPhone & iPad apps of all-time

My top iPad apps of 2010.

1. Real Solitaire HD – I’m $30k in the hole on that one.
2. Angry Birds HD – I’m $4.99 in the hole on that one.
3. Angry Birds Seasons – The CEO emailed me from Finland about how to unlock the additional levels.
4. Flipbook – Facebook & Twitter never looked so good.
5. BBC News – British news is so much better than Fox and CNN.
6. AP News – Short and sweet
7. CityTV – Community is the best show on TV.
8. Zumocast – Best streaming media server.  I hear it’s going Android-only.
9. Any Piano App.
10. Pulse News – An alternate look to Flipbook.
11. Soundhound
12. Aweditorium

And in no particular order:

Catapult Madness

Parachute Panic

Talking Tom Cat

Cut The Rope

Groovemaker

And my son likes:

Glow Draw
Draw Stars

 

Rovio’s casual gaming sensation Angry Birds is the most downloaded paid-for app for the iPhone of all time, Apple has disclosed.

Top10.com » News » Apple reveals most popular iPhone & iPad apps of all-time