Bad Behavio(u)r

If you use the Bad Behavior/Bad Behaviour plugin for WordPress, you will need to update it immediately if you don’t want to be blocked from accessing your own site (which is rather disconcerting). More details at Bad Behavior 2.0.11. Simply overwriting the old files with the new should work; another option is to rename the [...]

Editing Photos

I see Flickr has announced online photo editing, something that will be really useful for those times when I just don’t happen to have some other program handy. In particular when I’m trying to get the colour balance on my stash photos right, of course <grin />. I wonder whether the temptation to punch up [...]

Basketball Musings

Tim and I went to Portland for a couple of days. Apart from the obligatory visit to Powell’s and a couple of microbreweries, we also went to an NBA game. Tim likes live sports, and there isn’t a professional basketball team in Vancouver, so it seemed like a chance to do something we wouldn’t normally [...]

Vancouver Bits of News

I’m still fighting off a bad cold, so blogging has been light and will be over the next couple of days. Things have still been happening in the world though… or at least in the part of it I inhabit.
Raincity Studios bought Bryght - the Bryght guys (Boris, Roland, Kris, Richard) have been major contributors [...]

Recyling Computers

I just got back from dropping off three monitors (two big and bulky, the third doesn’t work), two PC boxes (one works: a friend was upgrading so I offered to get rid of the old one, the other doesn’t even turn on any more), two keyboards, a 9600 baud modem, an old router, and assorted [...]

Bob Sutor on Privacy

Bob Sutor has a good posting on some of the same privacy issues I talked about in my Web 2.0: Issues posting, in more depth and with some different nuances. Worth reading and thinking about.