Troy Angrignon

Check out the graph that “Sleep Cycle” generated for me last night. Cool. [http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/sleepgraph.jpg]

Watch these in this order. They’re like peanut butter and jam. Perfect. Kevin Kelly tells the epic story [http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_kelly_tells_technology_s_epic_story.html] of technology from the birth of the universe until now. Then Bill Gates asks for his one big

* Jamie Oliver pleads with us to stop killing our kids with crappy food: www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html [http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html] * Blaise Aguera y Arcas will blow your mind with the next generation of augmented reality mapping tools. Makes Google Maps look like

(EDIT: I said Milton Friedman who is of course, no longer with us, may he rest in peace. We now return to our regularly scheduled programming.) Thomas L. Friedman wrote an excellent post [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/opinion/17friedman.html?em] over here at the NY Times

I found an awesome PPT deck today called How to Optimize Your SaaS Revenue Streams – Rackspace SaaS & Cloud 2010 [http://www.slideshare.net/sixteenventures/how-to-optimize-your-saas-revenue-streams-rackspace-saas-cloud-2010] . How to Optimize Your SaaS Revenue Streams – Rackspace SaaS & Cloud 2010 [http://www.slideshare.net/sixteenventures/how-to-optimize-your-saas-revenue-streams-rackspace-saas-cloud-2010] View more presentations [http://www.slideshare.

Strap-on tank converts a car into a true all-terrain vehicle [http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine/%7E3/suLeDCX8iG4/] from Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine [http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FGizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine] I wanted another Subaru until I saw THIS baby! Forget the Subaru. Maybe

Cool looking little commuter concept car from Rinspeed. Cute! It’s like a pug. Imagine owning a pug dog and a Rinspeed? They’d be the perfect Yaletown accoutrements. Rinspeed UC: Want to Get More Miles Out of Your Electric Car? Take It on a Train | Technomix | Fast Company [http:

[http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2010-01-27-at-10.59.58-PM.png] [http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Screen-shot-2010-01-28-at-1.29.01-PM.png] I wrote back in March 2009 about my hopes and dreams [http://www.troyangrignon.com/2009/03/09/i-hope-apple-is-building-the-ikindle-a-light-weight-wireless-touch-screen-tablet/] for a tablet from Apple, all of which came

(photos courtesy of this excellent post from the GDGT team here [http://live.gdgt.com/2010/01/27/live-apple-come-see-our-latest-creation-tablet-event-coverage/#10-54-04-am] and thanks to the LeoLaporte/Twit team and Ustream for their feed here [http://www.ustream.tv/leolaporte].) Holy cow, did I ever call this one right back in March

Here is a photo of the Club Fat Ass “Fat Ass 50 New Years Run” hosted by none other than Ean “Action” Jackson, who not only started this run 17 years ago but also managed to run it as his 100th ultra. And thanks to Sibylle Tinsel-Jackson, the Chief Fat

Andy, I just heard today that you’re gone. Sorry to hear that mate. I enjoyed working out with you at Crossfit Vancouver. We called you “Nutts” for short because you were a big dumb-ass, always clowning around, but you always worked your ass off too.  We were sad to

Here is a CrunchGear review of the new Vibram Five Fingers KSO Treks [http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/12/17/review-vibram-five-fingers-kso-trek/]. I can’t wait to get and try a pair. I have the Classics and the regular KSOs and they’re great but I need more grip for the

[http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Microfauna.jpg]Wow. Check out the beautiful macro photography of David Liittschwager with his Marine Micro Fauna collection [http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/david-liittschwager-marine].

[http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/mini_beachcomber_concept01.jpg] Here is the Mini Beachcomber concept car. COOOL. [http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/mini_beachcomber_concept02.jpg]

Boris Mann and the team over at Bootup Labs [http://www.bootup.ca] are stealing a great idea from some of our U.S. counterparts – the Startup Visa. In short, they (and I) want to see a visa category created by the government that makes it easier for a founding

[http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/googleearthimage-full.jpg] Here [http://earth2tech.com/2009/12/10/copenhagen-google-launches-forest-monitoring-tool/] is a cool project from Google.org – a cloud based platform for monitoring the health of the world’s forests over time. I’m glad to see Sergey’s continued influence at Google

[http://www.blackboxrepublic.com/partner/troy]My friends have been working hard at creating a new social site – something unlike everything else out there. Unlike most social sites that are pretty specific like LinkedIn for business, Facebook for…well…everybody including your grandma, and dating sites that are specific to

Hey everybody, I’m excited to let you all know that the newest version of the cloud computing ecosystem map has been released. The CIO blog post is here [http://blog.appirio.com/2009/11/navigating-cloud-ecosystem.html], the release notes are here [http://productblog.appirio.com/2009/11/cloud-ecosystem-map-release-notes.html]

Via TechCrunch: Not Playing Around. EA Buys Playfish For $300 Million, Plus a $100 Million Earnout. [http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/09/not-playing-around-electronic-arts-buys-playfish-for-275-million/] I knew this was coming soon. The growth rates on Playfish and Zynga were too high not to get the attention of the majors. I love

In this article [http://gigaom.com/2009/06/25/structure-09-hps-russ-daniels-wants-everything-as-a-service/] , Russ Daniels, the CP and CTO of HP’s cloud services, made an astute observation:  “We think data in the cloud is exactly the right place to be looking…You can’t look at process because you can’t dictate

This Guardian article [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/13/iraq-gays-murdered-militias] that discusses how Islamist gangs lure gay men and then torture and kill them by cutting off their testicles and delivering their blood to their mothers, sickens me to my core. I have met a small number

You probably shouldn’t cave into those urges to move to Apple’s new operating system, Snow Leopard. You’ll be better off staying at Leopard for at least the next nine months. I’m going to tell you why in this post. I’m as guilty as the next