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  • Joe Black Coffee – Laptop Friendliness Rating

    Joe Black Coffee – Laptop Friendliness Rating

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    Website: joeblack.ca
    Address: 2037 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg
    Hours: M-T: 8a – 10:30p; F-S: 8a – 11p, Sun: 8a – 9p

    Joe Black is located on Portage Avenue, across for the foot path to Assiniboine Park, I imagine this keeps them extremely busy on warm evenings and weekends. To my knowledge, the storefront has been a cafe for over a decade. Joe Black itself only opened a few years ago. The food, decor and atmosphere similar to Daily Grind. They offer a large variety of food, including ice cream (or something ice cream like) and hot meals. In my introduction to this series, I promised to note any exceptions to food or coffee quality. Joe Black is one of these exceptions. The coffee definitely sub-par.

    In short, Joe Black is not a great place to work. A lot of the tables seem to be wobbly (typing on a wobbly table gets old fast). I was only able to find 2 electrical plugs, one buried behind a couch in the back and one under a service counter (the thing holding the milk, sugar, etc) at the front of the store – I didn’t really feel right using that one. Most of the tables near the front of the restaurant are essentially next to a giant patio door, making them too hot to sit at for extended periods of time. I honestly don’t remember the wifi situation, I was too busy burning up in the sun – I assume that it was totally open and fast enough…

    Rating

    • Busyness: Fine.
    • Seating: Poor.
    • Noise/Ambiance: Fine. Though, I’d expect most evenings to be far too busy to work.
    • Power: Poor.
    • WiFi: Fine.

    Overall Rating: Poor.

    Mathematically, 3 “fines”, 2 “poors” should equal a “fine.” But I really didn’t like this place as an office.

    That said, as a place for an icy beverage after a day at the park I’m sure it’s excellent.

  • Facebook Security Force

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    A neat little tidbit about Facebook security in this post from The Verge. Good Guy Facebook proactively scans lists of hijacked account and warns users if they appear on one of these lists.

    Facebook cross references credential dumps with its entire database of user credentials, then alerts any users that match to change their passwords. By signing up for Facebook, you’ve inadvertently entered yourself into its witness protection program, of sorts. During events like the Gawker credentials leak or Playstation Network security breach last year, Facebook alerted users if their passwords were on the loose.

    via The Verge

  • Inspired

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    …by Jeffery Zeldman, I trimmed my blog down to one column.

    Now off to bed.