Cambrian House, a digital "suggestion box" of sorts that has gleaned international media attention and been dubbed a major name to watch in 2007.

Calgary Herald, Jan 2007

Cambrian House began as a crowdsourcing community using a wisdom of crowds based approach to discover new business and technology ideas. These pages are being kept online as a technology demo to showcase Chaordix™.

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swestrup

Location: Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec, CA

Member Since: May 11, 2007

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch

Currently Stirling maintains a number of blogs. The two that are most likely to be of interest to members of Cambrian House are a technical blog (http://technaut.livejournal.com) where he's been writing ideas for viable businesses and his business blog (http://willcodeforfood.livejournal.com) where he talks about business management in the 21st century. As for his story, well its quite simple: Stirling Westrup became hooked on Science Fiction at the age of 9, when he was lent his brother's copy of The Spacehounds of IPC, by E.E. "Doc" Smith. Skipping over the mushy stuff at the beginning, he quickly found the bit where the alien ships start firing ray-beams, and he's never looked back. He determined then-and-there to become one of those adventuring scientists who build their own spaceships and ray guns and go out to confront the alien menace on its own turf. He maintained this determination until well into a physics major in university. However the realities of the current technology of warp drives and the lack of jobs for nuclear physicists caused him to shift to his second love: computers. For the last 20 years since he left university, he's been an internet denizen and working programmer engaged in everything from educational software to embedded communications systems. A few years ago he was Director of Research and Development for a small Montreal computer-game company called Strategy First, which he helped to found, but is now engaged in an attempt to start up his own software company. In his spare time he reads science fiction and fantasy, and dabbles in writing and running role-playing game supplements and scenarios.

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