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 went [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]