This was the video that was unveiled at the ICF Breakfast in April, here in Moncton, and was shown to the World at the ICF conference in New York in May.
Probably one of the best videos for Moncton PR, ive seen in a while.
Where: Centennial Park, Moncton near Rotary Lodge
When: 3PM on Saturday, May 16
This Saturday there will be a Tweetup at Centennial Park in Moncton for a BBQ! Meet up around 3PM near the Rotary Lodge at Centennial Park, and we’ll be firing up the BBQ around 4PM. Enjoy the sun, conversation, and food cooked over hot coals.
This is, of course, weather permitting, and there will be tweets sent out if rain causes a cancellation.
Condiments (ketchup, mustard and relish), cold salad and coals will be brought by @lovelacek, so please bring a few dollars to chip in on the cost 
You will need to bring your choice of meat (or vegetarian substitute), as well as your beverage and any other snacks.
Questions can be directed to @lovelacek or @johnsgunn. Please let us know if you’ll be coming!
Where: Read’s Newsstand in Riverview at 620 Coverdale Road
When: 7PM this evening (Saturday, May 9)
Tonight we’ll be having a tweetup at Read’s Newsstand in Riverview for coffee, tea, or whatever suits your palette! Come join for a good chat! Drop a line to @johnsgunn if you have questions! I’ll try to get back as quick as I can on them!
Ordering delivery can be a pain in the butt sometimes. Especially if you want things specifically. Sure it’s easy if you’re just ordering a 12″ pizza with the works, but what if you want something left off? Or something added? Try ordering a plain pizza, with just cheese and sauce, sometime. You always get questions like “Ok, what else would you like on that?”
This is why I love the idea of ordering online. You can select exactly what you want, and add whatever additional instructions in plain English. No more worrying about background noise on either end making it hard to understand your order!
Unfortunately, there are not enough companies in Moncton using online ordering systems yet. In fact, I didn’t think anyone was. But a conversation on Twitter did prove me wrong! Here is a list of the restaurants in Moncton doing online ordering:
Also, @R0gueWarri0r pointed out that Papa John’s does online ordering. When I checked out their site, however, I found that the Moncton location does phone orders only. So, if you love Papa John’s, contact the Moncton store and tell them so, and ask them nicely to take online ordering.
So, congrats to the companies in Moncton that are doing online ordering, but it’s still a mighty short list. We’re one of the Top 7 Smart Cities in the world! I’d love to see that list quadruple (or more) this year! Who’s with me?
If you know of any other restaurants in Moncton that do online-ordering, let us know so we can add it to the list!
Update: @joshnet pointed out the Dominos Pizza does online ordering as well, but like Papa John’s, it’s not available in Moncton at the moment.
Update 2 (April 30, 2009): Dominos Pizza is now doing online ordering in Moncton!
I know this is last minute, but how’s about some Tweetup action in Moncton tonight?
When: 8PM
Where: Pumphouse Brewery - 5 Orange Lane, Moncton
Tweet @ me if you’re coming!
- John / @johnsgunn
While MonctonITA is very Moncton-centric, we do see ourselves as a part of something bigger that spans all of New Brunswick. As a part of that, we’d like to take this chance to highlight some of the really interesting people in Moncton and the rest of NB who you may not have heard of.
(the) Inevitable Corp - @comforteagle
Meet Steve Mallet, mild-mannered blogger. I’ve followed him on Twitter for a while, but didn’t really know what Steve did. I knew he had an office downtown, and did something web-based, but that’s about it. It was just the other day that it was pointed out to me that he runs the +5,000 Alexa-ranked OSDir.com from his Moncton office. Linux fans, take note! Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter has become very popular in small IT companies. In the past, we would more likely expect the company itself to have a marketing-lead “official” account. What’s surprising is that it’s individuals within these companies using Twitter. It’s not uncommon to see the a company lead on Twitter, as well as a few colleagues/employees, all speaking openly about what it is they’re doing.
On its face, you would expect this to provide two big things:
This is where the unexpected comes in; Companies are talking to eachother. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve decided to open the floorto your questions for Richard Stallman! He will be in Moncton next week to give a lecture at University of Moncton! I will be interviewing him after his lecture, and I will bring your questions along!
So please submit your questions you’d like to have asked in a comment to this article! We’re looking for questions regarding the Free Software Foundation, the GNU project, or Richard Stallman’s other work.
- John / @johnsgunn
This is a shout out to anyone who manages a large windows based network that has access to the internet at any point. Please make sure your Windows PCs are patched up to the latest updates from Microsoft, and that your Antivirus is updated as well.
The computer worm that exploits a months-old Windows bug has infected more than a million PCs in the past 24 hours, a security company said today.
Early Wednesday, Helsinki, Finland-based security firm F-Secure Corp. estimated that 3.5 million PCs have been compromised by the “Downadup” worm, an increase of more than 1.1 million since Tuesday.
“[And] we still consider this to be a conservative estimate,” said Sean Sullivan, a researcher at F-Secure, in an entry to the company’s Security Lab blog. Yesterday, F-Secure said the worm had infected an estimated 2.4 million machines.
The worm, which several security companies have described as surging dramatically during the past few days, exploits a bug in the Windows Server service used by all supported versions of Microsoft Corp.’s operating system, including Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008.
Microsoft issued an emergency patch in late October, fixing the flaw with one of its rare “out of cycle” updates.
The soaring number of infections by Downadup — also called “Conficker” by some security companies — prompted Microsoft to add detection for the worm to its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), the anti-malware utility that the company updates and redistributes each month to Windows machines on Patch Tuesday. The MSRT scans for known malware, then scrubs the system of any it finds.
Microsoft recommended that Windows users install the October update, then run the January edition of the MSRT to clean up compromised computers.
Read the whole article at ComputerWorld
Mike O’Hara // Twitter: mike_ohara
You can now register free of charge for the upcoming Richard Stallman lecture being held at University of Moncton! From the event info:
The Department of informatics at the Université de Moncton, as well as its Student Council are happy to invite you to attend Dr. Stallman’s conference on Free Software in Ethics and in Practice. Dr. Stallman is a renowned computer scientist who launched the development of the well known free GNU operating system in 1984. The talk is aimed at the general computer-using public and is not intended to be technical…
…Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms.
You can get more details, and register for free, at the event page!
- John / @johnsgunn
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