Haliburton County’s Hot Reads The following are the top five fiction and non-fiction titles as requested this week at the Haliburton County Public Library. HCPL’s TOP FIVE FICTION 1. Notorious Nineteen by Janet Evanovich 2. The Forgotten by David Baldacci 3. Trust Your Eyes by Linwood Barclay 4. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by [...]
By David Spaxman The concept of viruses or self-replicating programs actually originated with early computer researchers but was never put into play. The first actual viruses were, essentially, pranks or fairly benign proof that viruses could be created. Most of them simply displayed a message of some sort to indicate they were present while infecting [...]
By George Farrell Hubby doesn’t like art and the kids get bored by anything that isn’t animated. You on the other hand love art and would like to get more involved and go to more exhibitions. You feel that culture is a good thing, and you would like the family to think so too. So, [...]
Another vulnerability has been discovered in Java. If Java is installed on your machine, malware authors can exploit it and infect your computer from something as simple as you visiting a malicious or hacked website. The fix that most experts are recommending is to remove Java from your machine. Chances are you don’t actually need [...]
By Matthew Desrosiers What started out as a simple conversation over a Tim’s coffee has turned into a film about Haliburton’s illustrious hockey history. Wayde Greer and Charlie Teljeur of Bent Nose Media have put over a year-and-a-half into the documentary, titled There’s Something in the Water. “I sorta knew the story because I’d grown [...]
By David Spaxman Not a day goes by that I don’t hear of problems with one of the major free e-mail providers. In fact, I can fairly safely say that not a day has gone by in over five years. It really begs the question: are free e-mail services like Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, [...]
By David Spaxman IBM has just released its annual “5 of 5″ list of technology predictions for the next five years. This time, the focus is on the senses of sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste. If all these predictions come true, computers will play a much bigger part in our daily lives than they [...]
By Will Jones What is the true spirit of Christmas? It depends on who you ask. Now, in my previous urban life this was not an issue. I had surrounded myself with a group of fine friends who liked to celebrate Christmas just as I did – with a tipple or two, plenty of fine [...]
By David Spaxman I want to thank everyone who sent in their idea for the “Name the Next Microsoft Operating System Contest.” The rumor is Microsoft will be dumping the moniker “Windows” for its next OS and I wanted to see what people could come up with for a replacement. All of the entries were [...]
By Mark Arike The Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion was filled with Christmas cheer when former Haliburton resident Kate Campbell took centre stage. The singer and actor returned to her hometown on Dec. 17 for a benefit concert titled “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” in support of the YWCA’s Haliburton Emergency Rural SafeSpace (HERS). At [...]
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