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{ Monthly Archives } December 2007

To Gift or To Give

I’m usu­ally a bit of a stick­ler for try­ing to use lan­guage cor­rectly. I real­ise that one of the beau­ties of the Eng­lish lan­guage is the way new words and phrases are coined, and I will defend the right of people to do so, but it doesn’t mean I need to like all of them. […]

2007 12 20 General Comments (2)

Toddler Books

Our tod­dler daugh­ter (18 months old) likes hav­ing books read to her. Some of them are def­in­ite favour­ites, to be read as often as pos­sible, while oth­ers are the ones she likes when she’s told to go and get another book. They’re not neces­sar­ily books I would choose myself, but it’s not my taste that […]

2007 12 17 Books
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Facebook Privacy Settings

I’ve writ­ten in this blog before about Facebook’s pri­vacy issues, and the import­ance of mak­ing sure the pri­vacy set­tings in your Face­book pro­file match what you want to have hap­pen to your per­sonal data. Brian pos­ted on this same topic and has some good points and detailed instruc­tions; the com­ments are also worth read­ing. I […]

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2007 12 07 Identity and Privacy Comments (0)

Canadian Copyright

It looks like the fed­eral gov­ern­ment in Canada is plan­ning on chan­ging the copy­right law. If you’re con­cerned about the issue of copy­right, and par­tic­u­larly if you’re liv­ing in Canada and want to do some­thing about this issue, read the details on Michael Geist’s blog. He has a whole series on why he thinks the […]

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2007 12 07 General Comments (0)

Hibernating Ubuntu

I’ve had Ubuntu on my laptop for a while, and it never hibern­ated. I’d do what looked like the right things, but it just didn’t work. So a couple of days ago I decided I should try to track down the prob­lem. I was par­tially suc­cess­ful; hibern­at­ing a laptop prop­erly seems to be dif­fi­cult. Here’s […]

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2007 12 07 Technology Comments (2)

Yearly Rethink

One of the reas­ons I like going to North­ern Voice is that it always gives me lots to think about, in terms of what to write about on my blog, what tech­nical tricks to try out, and how to write bet­ter. Other people choose their blo­giversary, or maybe New Year’s Day, but I find Northern […]

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2007 12 06 Conference
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