Thank you, Bingemans Waterpark

I wanted to write a post to say thanks to a local business. I do a lot of screeching and chewing, so it’s nice to be able to say something positive. That business is Bingemans. The folks at my awesome job had an employee and family picnic there. My first reaction was “Woooohooo! I’ve never …

Another Way To Help Out Fort McMurray: Buy Or Listen To A Song

Fort McMurray Band Releases Song Dedicated to First Responders During the Wildfire With the Fort McMurray wildfire still affecting the evacuated communities, local band Freedom’s Note has just released a song about it. Called “The Fight”, band members Donny Synard and Danny Frewer wrote the song dedicated “to firefighters and first responders that acted with …

Helping The Folks from Fort McMurray

Whenever I think about Fort McMurray, and the fire that raged through there and burned down lots of homes and buildings, I feel this huge emptiness in my chest and this feeling of overwhelming helplessness. How do you help a community that needs so much? Well, thankfully the good people at Maclean’s have gathered up …

Help Fund Dictation Bridge And Bring Affordable Voice Recognition Technology To Screenreaders

Back in February, Carin mentioned the great potential of Dictation Bridge, a software package that, if developed, would provide voice recognition functionality to a range of screenreaders at no cost. At the time she wrote that post it was still a shell of an idea at least in the promotional sense, and it turned out …

The Arrogant Worms Would Like Your Help Funding Their Hopefully Very Long Goodbye

The Arrogant Worms are crowdfunding another album. Sadly, it’s their farewell album. Well, their first farewell album, anyhow. We want to put out a new album for our 25th year but we NEED YOUR HELP! The Arrogant Worms have been cranking our melodic Canadian comedy for a quarter of a century now. And a big …

Have A Look At Dictation Bridge

I’ve been hearing about a funding project for something called Dictation Bridge, which is supposed to make it so people using NVDA or whatever screen-reader can hear what they’re typing when using dictation software like Dragon. I thought it was a cool idea, and meant to send them some dough. Then they made a promo …

Help Wendy Fuller Recover From An Eviction That Should Never Have Been Allowed To Happen

This woman is a friend of some friends of ours. It’s sad to see systems that are supposed to be helping give people a hand up fail the very people who are trying to take that hand. If you can help out by sharing, donating or both, I know it would be appreciated. They’re looking …