The registration is open for Northern Voice 2007 and the speaker submissions will be closing on Friday December 1st. We extended the deadline to let people recover from the torrential downpours, record snowfalls, high winds, and assorted other drawbacks of November in the Pacific North-West.
And if you want a t-shirt, you can vote on [...]
I have the good fortune to work with Pat Patterson at Sun and one of the things we discussed quite a lot shortly before I went on maternity leave was how to make it easier for people to use Liberty protocols for their identity needs. One of the complaints I’ve heard is that there isn’t [...]
The advisory to boil water remains in Vancouver even though there was a lot less rain at the weekend than was forecast. The scenes of panic reported on in the paper on Saturday are, it is to be hoped, a thing of the past as people realise that boiling water isn’t all that hard, and [...]
I see Dave Shea has been explaining why he doesn’t typically order goods online; I’ve ordered lots of goods online and had mixed experiences. I usually only buy online if 1) I can’t find what I’m looking for locally, or 2) it’s substantially cheaper than buying locally. I also make sure of warranty implications for [...]
The program for XML 2006 is up; David and the committee (supported by the reviewers) look to have done a good job in picking papers. Unfortunately I won’t be attending this year; I’ve learned from experience that conferences and babies don’t mix (i.e., I could go to Boston but would not make it to enough [...]
Halloween is a big deal here in Vancouver, at least if you have children. In New Zealand (at least while I was growing up) we didn’t celebrate Halloween at all so it wasn’t until I got to Canada and had children that it became part of the yearly cycle.
Halloween here has three parts: decorations, costumes, [...]
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