Archive for the Category: General

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

December 24, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. 🙂 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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I hate my cell phone company

September 25, 2012 Roger Lacroix

I hate my cell phone company! Yes, I know everyone says that but I REALLY hate my cell phone company. By the way, my cell phone company is Rogers Wireless. This blog is about programming and the products I develop for Capitalware, so complaining about my cell phone company is not one of those topics. […]

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Tokelau Becomes First Country To Go 100% Solar

August 3, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Jess Lee of Stuff has a really interesting article: http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/7408149/Tokelau-to-shed-diesel-dependence Lead contractor Powersmart Solar is helping Tokelau replace its diesel generators – which burn about 200 litres of fuel daily – with 4032 solar panels, 392 inverters and 1344 batteries. Some countries/politicians just get it – they just get it. There are far better ways […]

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Get Fake Credit Card Numbers for Testing Purposes

July 27, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Working in the financial industry, sometimes you need fake data (i.e. names, credit cards, etc..) for testing purposes. Over 10 years ago, I came across a Windows program called: Credit Card Verificator Engine. It has the ability to generate credit card numbers. I posted it to my web site at: https://www.capitalware.com/pc_win_general.html I now have come […]

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Here’s another idea for the world!

April 11, 2012 Roger Lacroix

For anyone who parks a car/truck/van on a city street or parking lot, at some point, you have had to put money or a credit card into a centralized parking payment machine and then place the issued parking receipt on your vehicle’s dash (face up of course). Pretty standard stuff if you live in a […]

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Now that’s a resignation letter!!

March 14, 2012 Roger Lacroix

Greg Smith, who headed Goldman’s U.S. equity derivatives business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, resigned Wednesday with a letter in the Op-Ed section of The New York Times newspaper, entitled “Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/opinion/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?_r=1 As I always say to my kids, if it is black, call it black, don’t call […]

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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science

January 9, 2012 Roger Lacroix

If you need new reading material and/or want to stretch your mind then have a look at this site: http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html Jeff Huang has a web page devoted to Best Paper Awards in Computer Science. The papers are categorized under the following topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Databases, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Management, […]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

December 22, 2011 Roger Lacroix

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc… and a Happy New Year. 🙂 Regards, Roger Lacroix Capitalware Inc.

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The NHL Responded to my Letter

August 19, 2011 Roger Lacroix

For those of you who may remember, I sent the NHL’s Commissioner Gary Bettman a letter on March 12th, 2011 complaining about the vicious hit on Max Pacioretty by Zdeno Chara. https://www.capitalware.com/rl_blog/?p=435 This week I (finally) received a reply from Mr. Bettman. https://www.capitalware.com/dl/docs/Response_letter_from_NHL.pdf It looks like a form letter sent to hundreds (or thousands) of […]

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HP Discontinues WebOS Devices

August 19, 2011 Roger Lacroix

Yesterday, HP announced the discontinuation of the TouchPad, Veer, Pixi and Pre WebOS devices. http://news.yahoo.com/palm-largely-dead-hp-shuts-phone-tablet-unit-234202196.html Wow, I’m surprised. HP spent over a billion dollars to buy Palm just over a year ago and they must have spent hundreds of millions on development costs for the hardware (and software). The TouchPad only launched last month!! Talk […]

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