Phasor Burn

City Hall, originally uploaded by SmugBastard.ca.

Taken on my way to the police station to apply for CPIC background check for datacentre access at Telus.

Telus takes the CPIC paperwork, plus another several pages of their own forms signed by everyone under the sun, and then sits on them for a month before granting access to their datacentres.

Compare this to Q9 where the person paying the bill sets up authorized users via telephone or web control panel. New person just has to fill out a short one page form and show picture id, and immediately gets their finger print enrolled and an access card.

Q9’s datacentres seem to be just as secure. More so even, as I have yet to catch one of their guards sleeping on the job, or letting people into the guard room, or leaving doors open and waving people through without checking that they are allowed in… (all seen at Telus over the years)

View from Blueberry Hill, originally uploaded by OldDogNewTrick.

Winter Postcard of Upper Kananaskis Lake. +++

Drifting Dusk, originally uploaded by SmugBastard.ca.

December 12th, 3:40 PM. Off to do some shopping!

Dusk comes early at these latitudes just before Christmas, especially with heavy cloud cover. Makes it hard to know where the sun is in the sky.

80KM/H, D300S 35mm @f3.2 1/800

Square crop from bottom right corner of the original 4:3

On Dark

Winter, originally uploaded by JAS Photo.

Winter isn’t over yet. Just because we’ve had a relatively mild February full of unusual frost bearing fog doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods yet…

Should be at least a week of -20C to come, a few dumps of regular mid-winter dry snow, and the prerequisite 3 feet of heavy wet spring snow afterward….

Always the optimist.

Hoary City Business, originally uploaded by SmugBastard.ca.

Hoar frost glistening in the morning sun on trees surrounding the Calgary Municipal building.