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Category: Short Posts

Terrible thoughts

By Michael Coyle Posted on 05/07/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts Tagged with grim, musings, SMS
Terrible thoughts
Roland Webb, 1975-2013

What if the last human contact a subject has is with me?

Analysis of Missing Dementia in an Urban Environment

By Michael Coyle Posted on 17/06/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts Tagged with analysis, behaviour, dementia, numbers
Analysis of Missing Dementia in an Urban Environment

My friend Richard Laing of Ridge Meadows SAR has written an analysis of missing subjects with dementia in the Metro Vancouver area. View the document here.

Site Theme update

By Michael Coyle Posted on 18/02/2013 Posted in Short Posts Tagged with meta

Over the weekend I changed the theme of the blog. For those interested, the previous theme was Skeleton from Simple Themes. It’s a free, open source, responsive HTML5 theme based on the skeleton framework. The new theme is called Responsive from ThemeID. …

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Snow GIFs

By Michael Coyle Posted on 08/02/2013 Posted in Photo, Short Posts Tagged with picture, snow
Snow GIFs
Morning Snow (Martin Heck) from http://headlikeanorange.tumblr.com

Since I can’t be skiing today, I find these animated GIFs of snow to be calming, both from Head Like an Orange.

Rollie Webb memorial site

By Michael Coyle Posted on 31/01/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts Tagged with Rollie

We put together a memorial web site for Rollie at http://rolandwebbmemorial.wordpress.com

TrueNorth is in beta testing

By Michael Coyle Posted on 30/01/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts Tagged with GPS, mapping, technology, TrueNorth
TrueNorth is in beta testing

After many years of development, my mapping project TrueNorth is in beta testing.

State of Emergency in Norman Wells

By Michael Coyle Posted on 29/01/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts Tagged with emergency

Living in the Southwest of British Columbia, we are often mocked for our mild weather, and our inability to drive in snow. Reading an old friend’s blog over the past few days, however, has stressed just how different the north …

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The missing man

By Michael Coyle Posted on 23/01/2013 Posted in Short Posts Tagged with loss, memory, Rollie, sadness

  We did our first search without you today brother. As I was clearing the status board, your call sign was still there. Coquitlam 65, Coquitlam 65, this is Coquitlam Command. 65, Command, how do you read? Coquitlam command, hearing …

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GPS Dilution of Error Notice

By Michael Coyle Posted on 15/01/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts Tagged with communications, gear, GPS, news, technology
GPS Dilution of Error Notice

A known GPS dilution of accuracy event will occur tomorrow (January 16) from 14:15 to 14:45 local time.

Canadian Military considering charging for Disaster Relief services

By Michael Coyle Posted on 10/01/2013 Posted in Blog Entry, Short Posts Tagged with cost recovery, current events, military, rescue
Canadian Military considering charging for Disaster Relief services

Canadian Military considers charging for disaster relief; is cost recovery every a good idea for emergency response?

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