The New Interac Chip

You may already have one and not even know it. Credit cards have been introducing Chip Technology for some time.

The other day, I was buying a tea at the local Great Canadian Bagel and I noticed someone passing a debit card with the chip.

I then went to my financial institutions and asked if they had the chip debit cards, and I was pleased to tell me they did! So I've switched over to the new chips.

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The New Interac Chip

You may already have one and not even know it. Credit cards have been introducing Chip Technology for some time.

The other day, I was buying a tea at the local Great Canadian Bagel and I noticed someone passing a debit card with the chip.

I then went to my financial institutions and asked if they had the chip debit cards, and I was pleased to tell me they did! So I've switched over to the new chips.

Why Chips?

Chips have been in place in other countries (eg: across Europe) for many years. If you travel abroad you may have already noticed that your debit cards (magnetic stripes) do not work well in certain places.

Unlike traditional magnetic stripe cards, chip cards contain your account information in a special encrypted format that can be very hard to copy and/or access if copied.

Now currently, my chip cards have both a magnetic stripe and a chip. So while I can use the card more easily abroad, it still has the disadvantage of containing my information on the magnetic stripe. Once these magnetic stripes have been removed, and ABM and POS machines are updated to use Chip technology, it will undoubted be a safer transaction.

You can learn more at: http://www.interac.ca/consumers/chip.php

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I'm sure you've seen them before, just try a google search for "Greeting Cards", and you'll find hundreds of sites allowing you to send greeting cards. One of my favorites is the Jib Jab "Staring You cards"

Most of these greeting cards all work the same way, you walk through a little wizard, pick your card and your sender, and "viola" your card is ready

Back in 1996 during my 2nd year of university, I designed on of these greeting card systems myself. But it was a bit different. This system allowed you to have recurring birthday messages sent out every year to the people you specified.

It was a unix shell script that ran on one of the university servers; and it was somewhat popular.

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Please Note: At present, I've only had the time to implement the "birthday" greeting card, but I'm hoping to add more soon.

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The TCi Thermal Conductivty Analyzer Recommended Video - BWebcentral

In my old life, I worked for Mathis Instruments.

Whenever, I told someone where I worked, they often commented that they heard of it but were not sure what they did.

Well today, the product is owned by C-Therm, this video does an excellent job of explaining how it all works.

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