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Have you ever gone to work one morning to find a stranger sitting at your desk? “This is Boris Hadijian, our new tech-master whiz. I had no choice but to give him your desk. The HR department moved your things over there… didn’t you get the memo?” I get this all the time. I always forget the memo.

Or have you ever entered your office at night to pick up some stuff and found a sympathetic old handyman taking down a wall to create more office space, very eager to introduce himself? “I’ve been working for your boss’s family for over twenty years now, they’re great people, and they pay well.” Lovely.

Or have you ever considered, as an intern, dropping school to stay with a company that’s growing so fast that you fear you might miss the opportunity of becoming a CEO at 25 like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison or the two guys from Google?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you get the idea of how the past nine months were for me since I’ve been working at SherWeb. In one word: awesome!
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Rick Cook (author of the Wizadry series) once said, “Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.”

Programmers make the technologies we use possible, but often get little recognition for their major contributions outside the IT industry. A few months ago, one of our reader’s suggested we do a post on the creators of the most renowned programming languages. By creating this list, I hope to commemorate at least some of the many influential programmers of our time.
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Everyone with a pulse and an email account has been subject to at least a dozen or two email scams. Almost all of them can be grouped into just a handful of categories, however. One of the most common email scam themes is one in which some purportedly credible, wealthy person somehow needs the help of a complete stranger (i.e., the scam’s victim) in order to regain access to his funds. This person promises a portion of these gains to you if you only temporarily part with a small amount of money in order to gain access to his fortune.
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The field of biotechnology is constantly advancing. From finding ways to slow down the process of food spoilage, advancements in genetic engineering, to adapting organisms to clean up contaminated environments, new applications and biotechnological inventions are continuously being developed to help improve our world. Here are five breakthrough biotechnological innovations currently underway.
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PC Magazine just published an article on the essentials of an  At-Home IT Toolkit, which I found very helpful and interesting. They listed 17 of the most popular computer tools IT experts use or should use to help save them time and money when it comes to any computer-related issues. Here are my top 8 picks from the list.
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If you ever gave SherWeb a call, you might have been surprised to be first greeted in French.

As you may know, we are rooted in one of the most beautiful and only truly bilingual cities in North America: Montréal. Each and every member of our team speaks both English and French, and they will be more than happy to answer you in any of the two languages. So, if you call us and hear “bienvenue!”, remember that it does not only convey our pleasure to serve you, but also our proud origins.
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One season of CSI is all it takes to make anyone think twice about committing a crime. Experts in the various forensic sciences are highly skilled at gathering everything from teeth to fingerprints, bullet trajectories to DNA, and are proficient at comprehensively presenting them as evidence to a judge. It’s practically impossible to commit a crime without leaving some sort of physical trace. Enter computers and the virtual private server. Thanks to the ever-evolving field of computer forensics, investigators are able to catch criminals based on their digital traces. Computer forensics is the science of collecting, analyzing and preserving information found in a computer, to be employed as evidence in a court of law. It protects society from internet fraud, industrial espionage, identity theft, child pornography, unauthorized disclosure of corporate information, and even mass murder. The following are six facts about computer forensics that anyone with computer access should be familiar with. Read more »

Long time ago, before you could call for delivery, was Caveguy – let’s call him that! So Caveguy was standing next to a tree (not “standing” for long as a matter of fact!) while shivering briefly as the cool breeze that heralds winter made its way through his furry breeches. He was waiting patiently for lightning to strike wondering how long he would have to keep eating raw brontosaurus, for stone’s sake!
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Having spent over 10 years in the restaurant industry, I can’t even imagine how things got done before the implementation of touch screens.  Running around with little pieces of paper, hoping the cooks can read your handwriting, praying one of those slips doesn’t get lost, calculating people’s bills, and if a group of 6 wants to split the bill…f***!  Thanks to touch screen technology, I was able to punch in the drink orders, appetizers, main courses, desserts and coffees for huge groups of people in seconds. Once I pressed “Send,” the information was then printed in the kitchen, the bar and the dessert counter, complete with table and client number, so that not only does everyone know where the items are going, but which client gets what.  The bills were calculated automatically, and you could split the price of a pizza 12 ways if you needed to.
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In the four years that I’ve had a Facebook account, their system and interface has probably undergone more surgery than Carrot Top. In these few short years, I’ve had to change my privacy settings several times. I’ve had to familiarize myself with whatever new interface Facebook has decided to launch on its users. I’ve found myself, time and time again, having to adapt to their changes in order to use their services. Which is funny to me, considering that in an interview with Tech Crunch founder, Michael Arrington, and Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg says that Facebook is “constantly innovating and updating its system to reflect the current social norms”. To me, it seems Facebook has become one of the driving forces affecting our social norms.
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