Month: December 2012

I’ve been blogging on behalf of a number of companies through my career:

• For Tucows on The Farm,
• For Microsoft on Canadian Developer Connection,
• For Shopify on the Shopify Technology Blog.

…and now that I’m the co-founder/CTO of CTS — that’s short for Comprehensive Technology Solutions — the blog had to come sooner or later. That time is now, and the blog is called Mobilize!

CTS is in the business of helping enterprises and organizations make the transition to mobile tech and build a strategy for doing so, and the blog will be about that as well. If you manage mobile technologies, write mobile apps or just want to keep up with what’s up in the mobile world, you might want to bookmark Mobilize!

(And yes, a good number of articles on Mobilize! will also appear on my tech blog, Global Nerdy.)

Over at the Han vs. Kirk site, the ladies’ men of the Star Wars and Star Trek universes battle it out:

…is best summarized by this This Modern World comic:

Click the comic to see it at full size.

Oddly enough, this comic isn’t referring to the recent shooting incident in Newtown, Connecticut, nor the movie theatre shooting in Aurora, Colorado from this summer, nor the one a year before that in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but three mass shootings and two years ago — the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona.

It’s the day when The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits the theatres here in North America. In honour of this day, here are some videos for your enjoyment:

The First Trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Here’s the first trailer for the movie, released back in January:

The First Trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Here’s the second trailer for the movie, which came out in September:

Air New Zealand: An Unexpected Safety Briefing

One of the best airlines safety announcements made out there, starring the cast of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey…

Leonard Nimoy’s Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

And finally, Leonard Nimoy’s tribute to the hobbit in the movie’s title, recorded in the heady days of the summer of 1967. That’s why he’s got the “Spock” hair — this video was shot while Star Trek was deep in the production of its second season:

I’m starting it off here…

Then at 3:45 p.m., I’ll be here…

…and I’ll wind up here just before 7: