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{ Monthly Archives } November 2006

Moose Deadlines

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 […]

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2006 11 29 Conference
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Pat’s Lightbulb

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 […]

2006 11 28 Identity and Privacy
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Tea Water

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 […]

2006 11 20 General
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Shipping to Canada

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 […]

2006 11 15 General
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XML 2006

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 […]

2006 11 11 Conference Comments (0)

That was Halloween

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, […]

2006 11 03 Family Comments (6)