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 [...]

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.