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Bravery

You can see bravery in places you don’t expect it to be needed. In the safe confines of a blogging conference, for example. Read Meg’s posting, and Nancy’s response. I was in that session, and where Meg was brave enough to tape her picture on the wall, I was not. I threw it in the [...]

MooseCamp 2008

Another nice Friday in February for MooseCamp; somehow the MooseCamp day managed to score nice weather two years in a row. This year’s MooseCamp was bigger than previous years, and I think we’re getting to the limit of how many people we can take without losing something. We also seem to be getting a lot [...]

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Energy Deprivation and NorthernVoice

There’s something about these grey gloomy days that saps my energy. I’m still here, just not blogging much. I do post occasionally to my crafting blog, that seems easier somehow than this “main” blog. I’ll have to think about what that says about my blogging right now. I’m hoping that going to the Northern Voice [...]

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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Balisage

I used to, sometimes, go to a conference in Montreal in August called Extreme Markup Languages. Sometimes a bit over-the-top geeky for me, but mostly a good experience. There’s now a new conference in Montreal in August, run by some of the same people and chaired by Tommie Usdin from Mulberry Technologies, called Balisage (the [...]

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Web 2.0: Issues

There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of privacy, security, copyright — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take privacy for example. On many social networking sites people sign up and then put in all their personal information simply because there’s a field there for it. [...]