Ted Avery

ShareUOIT has a ridiculous amount of debt “In terms of the ratio of long-term debt to revenues … The worst performers are University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) at 219%, Wilfrid Laurier (WLU) at 87% and Lakehead at 76%” “If one were to estimate the long-term debt per enrolled student at each university … [...]

Share If you are a web developer, a question that will undoubtedly arise from your clients at some point is how a client’s website can have a higher ranking in Google’s search results. One easy method of landing on the first page is to pay for Google AdWords, Google’s advertising program which allows your website [...]

ShareWhy More Megapixels Isn’t Always Better A tech pet peeve of mine has always been the common misconception that more megapixels always means a camera with better quality images. This is far from the truth. In this link, a tech blog Gizmodo gives a very technical, yet easy to understand explanation on how digital cameras [...]

ShareStudents at UOIT and Durham College were told that one reason for the UPASS price increase was to fund increased service to the school. I was skeptical as to whether these were improvements we would actually see or if it was just an excuse to get students to cough up more cash. But a recent [...]

SharePerhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last [...]

Share Dear All Students The results of the UPASS are in; we had a turn out of 3460 students voice their opinion after three days of voting. With an overwhelming response of 90.6 %, students have decided YES. Now you might be asking what does this mean, well this means that all full-time students in [...]

ShareAnyone who pays the slightest amount of attention to Web 2.0 services and websites out there probably knows about the unique social network Last.fm that revolves entirely around the music you are into, as well as the music you have yet to discover. It’s been a site I’ve always known about but never really paid [...]

ShareCast your UPASS vote onlineUOIT, Durham College, and Trent University students don’t even have to go to school to cast their vote. Click the link to cast your vote online.

ShareWatch all the American Superbowl Commercials onlineEven if you aren’t a football fan, the Superbowl always brings some of the funniest and most entertaining ads to us each year. Unfortunately for us Canadians, CTV replaces all the American ads with Canadian ones, and they’re usually pretty pale in comparison. Thankfully YouTube has all the ads [...]