Last week, we had a party and a whole bunch of friends and family showed up to party with us. We had a large, well stocked bar (that featured a little too little scotch apprently), lots of snacks, some hot food prepared by Chef Dwayne in our kitchen, Elf on the big screen, and much merriment.
During the party, we asked that people bring food for the Christmas Cheer Board. Lots of you did and we ended up with over $300 worth of food and household items to drop off. Thank you everyone.
On top of all that we had a draw for a bunch of stuff. The names where drawn out by an pair of impartial young ladies aged 7 and 5. Here are the winners:
Rina Ricci from Syverson-Monteyne - New Years Eve Jets Tickets
Olga Gorelkina from Velocity - March 1 Jets Tickets
Mary-Lou McGurran from The Manitoba Arts Network - HP OfficeJet 4500
Marriane Hubrew - a coveted Visual Lizard zip up
Jeremy Peterson - another coveted Visual Lizard zip up
Darcy Boguski - shirt
Rick Fillon - shirt
Reid Henderson - shirt
Paul Barsy - shirt
Lee Froese - shirt
Gerhard Hopenheit - shirt
Stan Ross - shirt
Dean Syverson - shirt
Alex Sheludchenko - hat
Colleen Hailey - toque
Nancylyn Ross - toque
Russ Tychonik - hat
Jerry Griffith - hat
Lorraine Carrette - toque
Bruce Froebe - hat
Carolyn Rickey - toque
Steven Rosenburg - hat
Shawn Zayac - hat
Jerry Grawjewski - hat
Suzi Bonk - toque
Congratulations to all the winners. If your name is up here, please drop by the office to pick up your prize. I also apologise for any mis-spelled names. Some of you missed your calling as pharmacists.
As another reminder, Visual Lizard will be closed from December 23 to January 3rd, 2011. Have a very Happy Holiday Season and may warmth and saftey find you and yours in 2012.
Today, Google announced a couple updates to their social platform, including a slider control to prioritize a circle's stream, an easier to scan notifications popup, and an improved photo experience.
Microsoft makes access to the Messenger network publicly available via XMPP, an open standard. This means that anyone can build innovative messaging clients - either stand-alone or built into their devices - that include access to Messenger's 300 million active users.
Microsoft has announced that starting in January 2012 Internet Explorer will, like Chrome, Firefox and Opera, no longer pester you with update notices. Instead Internet Explorer will automatically download and install updates in the background.
For those of you that have logged in and been confused by your profile's new layout, the new Facebook Timeline has been made available everywhere. Let the disgruntled whining begin...
2011 seems to be the year vapourware suddenly materializes. Allan Odgaard has released an alpha of TextMate 2.0 (originally announced way back in 2006).
Comedian Louis C.K. recently released his latest stand-up special as a DRM-free download for a mere five bucks. This post is a follow-up, a couple days later, on how the experiment went.
PANDR have made a neat little tool. Type in the URL of your favourite website and get a gallery of the colours used on it. Or save the provided bookmarklet for the same. For instance, here's our palette.
"Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give."
Apple announced today that over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in less than one year. Wow. I didn't realize it was doing that good!
Reminder, the official Winnipeg Jets license plates are available from your local Autopac dealers today. They cost about seventy bucks each, a portion of that going to charity.
You probably remember the keyboard with each key displaying any image and being assigned any function, which costed more then your car and you could not afford it by selling the car. Now you have a more real chance to get it after new and more affordable versions has been announced. Not only Optimus Popularis is cheaper, it is more compact too.
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