Independent Canadian musician and composer Christopher William Cardno has passed away on November 29th, 2011 at the age of 28.
I will miss our humourous discussions about music and various other issues on Stickam, that we have had since 2007/08.
My condolences to his family, friends and fans in Vancouver and through-out the world.
Rob McIntyre (canucktunes/deathbypuppet)
It appears that some non-American cloud services are warning people to avoid US based cloud services because of the Patriot Act.
According to Politico.com, some companies have been claiming that this anti-terrorist legislation may enable the US government to access data stored on U.S. cloud computing providers like Google and Microsoft. And this is hindering the adoption of these services in some countries.
Whenever someone says they’re going to buy a new blu-ray player of HDTV, that is the first thing that I tell them.
In test after test, the more expensive HDMI cables failed to impress in comparison to their cheaper counterparts
Reviewers and the technicians they consulted saw no difference when it comes to video and audio quality so why dish out hundreds of bucks on cables when you can use the money buying movies instead ?
All you need to do is buy the proper category of cable for your home theater system and you’re up and running :
Cable/Satellite boxes – (HDMI 1.3 or 1.4) Standard/Category 1
Upconverting DVD Player – (HDMI 1.3 or 1.4) Standard/Category 1
Blu-Ray at 720p resolution – (HDMI 1.3 or 1.4) Standard/Category 1
Blu-Ray at 1080p resolution – (HDMI 1.3 or 1.4) High Speed/Category 2
Blu-Ray 3D – (HDMI 1.4) High Speed/Category 2
Blu-Ray Deep Color – (HDMI 1.4) High Speed/Category 2
Blu-Ray 4K – (HDMI 1.4) High Speed/Category 2
(source – HDMI.org)
More Black Friday specials are up :
Napster will cease their Canadian operations on December 16th, 2011 and the company advises their Canadian customers to use their credits/gift cards and backup their purchases prior to this date. Click here for more details.
The Black Friday sales have begun at Amazon.ca 
, EntertainmentEarth.com
, JR.com
, Musician’s Friend
, Tigerdirect.ca
and Tigerdirect.com
.
The rest of the online retailers I buy from appear to be waiting for Friday itself to offer up their Black Friday sales.