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{ Monthly Archives } April 2006

Jellybean Schooling

Schools have changed since I went to school — not sur­pris­ing, although maybe it’s just that I can’t remem­ber much about my early child­hood. Our son came home with a note the other day, telling us about some pro­gram he’s doing, and giv­ing us the inform­a­tion slip. This con­tained the sen­tence This year we will […]

BCNet Liberty

Yes­ter­day I gave a talk at the (for­tu­nately) local BCNET/Netera Con­ver­ging Minds Con­fer­ence. BCNet builds net­works for the BC research and edu­ca­tion com­munity, and the con­fer­ence was aimed at the admin­is­trat­ors, deans, and IT man­agers who need to know what tools their research­ers and stu­dents would find use­ful. The con­fer­ence agenda had talks on lots […]

More Coffee

Not that I’m actu­ally addicted (in fact at the moment I’m not drink­ing much cof­fee at all, the occa­sional latte is about it for now), but I came across another coffee-related link for Van­couver. This one proves just what sort of coffee-loving area I live in — accord­ing to Delo­c­ator there are 69 “non-corporate” (their […]

Do-it-yourself Coffee Roasting

For the truly addicted con­nois­seurs: Dave Shea’s Caf­fein­ated post­ing shows you how to roast your own cof­fee beans, with instruc­tions and com­ments. This is one of the more inter­est­ing uses of Flickr from my perspective.