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EDGE1 Border Security — Code 6: Deep Packet Inspection
CODE 6! A suspicious packet is taken for deep packet inspection.
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Pretty Princess Penelope & Lord Nibbler
From five frightened Edmonton kittens to a home full of warmth, courage, and love. Four illustrated stories from the Saskatchewan Drive Chronicles.
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2026-10-20 08:05:39 UTC
EDGE1 Border Security — Code 6: Deep Packet Inspection
CODE 6! A suspicious packet is taken for deep packet inspection.
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2026-10-20 08:05:38 UTC
EDGE1 Border Security — Code 6: The Interrogation
Papers, please. Then why are you 128 bits long?
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2026-10-20 08:05:38 UTC
EDGE1 Border Security — Code 6: The Checkpoint
A suspicious IPv6 packet arrives at EDGE1 customs wearing an IPv4 disguise.
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2026-10-20 01:51:53 UTC
Homeless with Infrastructure
No running water. Electric heat, power, a tent in the garage, and satellite internet. Where does shelter end and lifestyle choice begin?
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2026-10-20 01:51:53 UTC
The Origin of GERVUNDERBRICKEN
From the gods of academic mercy to a career at IBM, a nonsense exam answer lives on in a real SMTP greeting.
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2026-10-19 01:37:56 UTC
It Worked in Testing (We Swear)
All green checks until deployment day
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2026-10-19 01:37:56 UTC
The Help Desk Time Machine
The answer never changes even when the century does
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2026-10-19 01:37:56 UTC
The Email That Went Everywhere
Reply All finds a surprisingly large audience
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2026-10-19 01:37:55 UTC
The Wi-Fi That Reached the Neighbourhood
Excellent wireless range and unexpected neighbours
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2026-10-19 01:37:55 UTC
The Password Was “Password”
Memorable credentials meet modern security advice
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2026-10-19 01:37:55 UTC
Print, Pray, Cancel, Repeat
One document versus seventeen stuck print jobs
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2026-10-19 01:37:54 UTC
The Update That Updated Everything
One browser patch takes down the office
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2026-10-19 01:37:54 UTC
Artificial Intelligence, Genuine Idiot
A very confident robot explains coaxial cable incorrectly
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2026-10-19 01:37:53 UTC
The Weather Forecast Is 100% Packet Loss
Clouds of two completely different kinds
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2026-10-19 01:37:53 UTC
Enterprise Solutions, Residential Budget
A startup designs a million-dollar network with lunch money
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2026-10-19 01:37:53 UTC
The Cable Installer Who Became the Internet
One coax connector, every household gadget
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2026-10-19 01:37:52 UTC
The Computer Says You Don’t Exist
A human loses an argument with a database
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2026-10-19 01:37:52 UTC
The Backup Was in the Building
Three backups, one location
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2026-10-19 01:37:52 UTC
The Security Camera Witness Protection Program
Surveillance records the wrong everything
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2026-10-19 01:37:51 UTC
The School Called California. California Didn't Answer.
A rural classroom attempts digital first contact
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2026-10-19 01:37:51 UTC
TCP/IP: Two Coffees, Irish Preferably
A very questionable networking lesson
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2026-10-19 01:37:50 UTC
Gus Explains Television to a Cable Technician
Artificial confidence meets real expertise
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2026-10-19 01:37:50 UTC
The Future Was Approved Pending Approval
Broadband held hostage by paperwork
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2026-10-19 01:37:50 UTC
The Internet Is Supposed to Be Paperless
Digital delivery meets the printing press
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2026-10-19 01:37:49 UTC
Your Internet Is Down? Which Internet?
Outages across every possible network
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2026-10-19 01:37:49 UTC
Three Years of Commitment, Zero Minutes of Service
A contract that works better than the phone
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2026-10-19 01:37:49 UTC
The Cookie Monster Worked in Accounting
Affiliate reports, cookies, and confusion
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2026-10-19 01:37:48 UTC
All This Over a Fifty-Cent Fuse
A five-minute repair with enormous complications
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2026-10-19 01:37:48 UTC
Trauma Is Not a Billable Expense
Corporate care comes with a timesheet
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2026-10-19 01:37:48 UTC
The Hard Drive Had a Bad Day
Impossible recovery meets damaged hardware
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2026-10-19 01:37:47 UTC
Visual Voicemail, Invisible Service
The smart phone with the shy voicemail
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2026-10-19 01:37:47 UTC
The Thousand-Pound Office Supply
Paperless dreams, gigantic newsprint
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2026-10-19 01:37:46 UTC
Matt the Rat and the Coffeehouse Philosopher
Two brothers and two sorts of uptime
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2026-10-19 01:37:46 UTC
The Internet Owes Me Seventeen Cents
Affiliate marketing's first great payday
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2026-10-19 01:37:46 UTC
Surfin’ da Weeb
Dial-up to the information superhighway
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2026-10-18 14:49:49 UTC
No Questions, Free Internets
An airport hangar hosts internet workers, weather personnel and an understanding about being good neighbours.
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2026-10-18 14:49:49 UTC
We Put the Internet on a Sand Plant
A Red Deer industrial sand plant becomes a wireless repeater location and optical-link test site.
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2026-10-18 14:49:48 UTC
The Toolbar Before Google
John and Antoine build Sportula Bar, an early Canadian web toolbar, amid start-up chaos.
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2026-10-18 14:22:38 UTC
The Night the Dogs Owned Whyte Avenue
Hockey tickets, a Whyte Avenue celebration, and a surprise K9 encounter.
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2026-10-18 14:09:52 UTC
Lost in Translation: The Money Machine Edition
When Canadian banknotes went plastic, the cash counters needed upgrades—and the instructions arrived in Japanese.
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2026-10-18 13:51:37 UTC
The Service Van Was on TV
An emergency outage, a speed trap, a news helicopter, and a company-wide screening.
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2026-10-18 13:51:37 UTC
Commander What's-His-Name
A bank service call, a spectacularly inconvenient break, and a complete tactical failure of name recall.
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2026-10-18 13:25:10 UTC
The World's Most Stubborn Concrete
A computer room tougher than the demolition equipment.
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2026-10-18 13:25:09 UTC
Do Not Reboot Until 2027
The most important router is the one nobody dares to touch.
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2026-10-18 13:25:09 UTC
Three-Year Contract, One Broken Ringback Tone
The future of smartphones meets an ordinary telephone call.
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2026-10-18 13:25:09 UTC
Same Hangar, Different Kind of Cloud Computing
Clouds, cables, and the problem of finding the right department.
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2026-10-18 13:25:08 UTC
We Tried to Buy a Nuclear Bunker for Our Servers
The ultimate data centre, if only we'd won the bid.
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2026-10-18 13:25:08 UTC
All We Needed Was a Signature
When the entire network plan meets one unsigned form.
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2026-10-18 13:25:08 UTC
Matt the Rat: Human Failover System
Two departments, one Matt, no hot standby.
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2026-10-18 13:25:07 UTC
We Shot the Internet at the Neighbours
Alberta networking: now with line of sight and winter.
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2026-10-18 13:25:07 UTC
The Internet Has Cleared for Takeoff
A tiny router among enormous airplanes.
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2026-10-18 13:25:07 UTC
Two T3s, Zero Automatic Failover
Two circuits. One staircase. One very important Matt.
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2026-10-18 08:17:32 UTC
The Cat Was Never the Problem
Three attempts, one favicon, and the engineering lesson Gus will never forget.
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2026-10-18 07:12:38 UTC
Jenna Answers the Office Phone
A couple of months after the great Patty’s sink emergency, Jenna upgraded from diaper chaos to customer relations — by crawling across my desk, answering the work phone, and happily babbling to one of my associates like she owned the place. ❤️☎️😂
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2026-10-18 07:03:16 UTC
Jenna, Patty’s, and the Great Sink Emergency
A diaper catastrophe, a round sink at Patty’s in Gasoline Alley, and three men doing their best to clean up a very small Jenna with a very big problem. The cheese fries afterward were totally worth it. ❤️
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2026-10-18 06:44:28 UTC
No Cloud Dashboard Required
Adventures in Technology | XpressNet · Central Alberta · circa 1998–1999 These days, running a network means dashboards.
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2026-10-18 06:44:28 UTC
The Press From the 1930s Worked Fine
Adventures in Technology | Central Alberta Publisher · late 1990s One of the strangest things about working with newspaper production technology in the late 1990s was the enormous difference in the ages of the equipment.
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2026-10-18 06:44:28 UTC
Named Pipes, Broken Dreams
Adventures in Technology | Central Alberta Publisher · late 1990s Windows NT 4.0 was serious business.
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2026-10-18 06:44:27 UTC
CBC, We Had Permission. Probably.
Adventures in Technology | Somewhere west of Red Deer · circa 1998–1999 There are certain details from the past that become less clear with time.
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2026-10-18 06:44:27 UTC
The World's Most Inconvenient Laptop Stand
Adventures in Technology | XpressNet · Central Alberta · circa 1998–1999 Today, wireless networking equipment practically configures itself.
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2026-10-18 06:44:27 UTC
A Ten-Foot Sail at 100 Feet
Adventures in Technology | XpressNet · Central Alberta · circa 1998–1999 There's something important you should know about large aluminum communications dishes.
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2026-10-18 06:44:26 UTC
The Technician Stayed on the Ground
Adventures in Technology | XpressNet · Central Alberta · circa 1998–1999 Working for an early internet service provider meant solving problems that didn't come with instruction manuals.
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2026-10-18 06:44:26 UTC
The President Was My Girlfriend
Adventures in Technology | Invermay School Apple Computer Club · early 1990s Being Vice President of the Apple Computer Club was a prestigious position.
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2026-10-18 06:44:25 UTC
The Vice President
Adventures in Technology | Invermay School Apple Computer Club · early 1990s Some kids dreamed of becoming astronauts. Others wanted to be professional hockey players.
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2026-10-18 06:44:25 UTC
Hello, California!
Adventures in Technology | Rama School, Saskatchewan · circa 1986–1987 There was a time when getting a computer to communicate with another computer was practically a miracle.
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2026-10-18 06:15:56 UTC
Haunted, On Fire, and a Three-Bedroom Ranch
Haunted? Check. On fire? Check. Three bedrooms? Apparently. Somebody might want to amend the listing.
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2026-10-18 06:08:14 UTC
The Technician Was Afraid of Heights. Unfortunately, I Wasn't.
Our technician was afraid of heights. Unfortunately, I wasn't. 📡😂 One failed wireless backhaul, a 10-foot aluminum dish, a laptop, and a winter tower climb later, I began to appreciate his decision.
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2026-10-18 00:53:57 UTC
The Norton Solution
Some people uninstall their antivirus. Others prefer a more hands-on approach. 🔨💻😂 Norton and I have reached the 'it's complicated' stage of our relationship. The laptop has been warned.
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