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Musings on Copyright

I know why it happened, but it still strikes me as odd, the fact that the goalposts kept moving, as it were, with copyright. And it’s weird no matter whether the copyright is there to give other people rights to use, copy and modify the work, or rights to the author to protect and profit [...]

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2007 10 07 Rants Comments (5)

Personality Types

I’ve worked at companies that did Myers-Briggs/Keirsey temperament testing on people, and just for fun decided to try out another couple of tests over the last couple of months, most recently at mypersonality.info. It seems my personality type wanders, from INTJ to INTP and over to ISTJ. Either that, or I look at myself differently [...]

2007 10 03 Comments (1)

UPS Rip-Offs

I’ve written in this blog before about UPS and their brokerage fees. I just today had another example. I ordered something from the U.S. (knitting gadgets I haven’t found in stores in Canada) and the order was $US50. Works out to about $53 Canadian at current rates. The brokerage fee that UPS charged me to [...]

2007 09 12 Rants Comments (3)

City Mayhem

Today was my turn to take the boy to his soccer camp; it also turned out to be the day after the police shot someone on a main street. The aforesaid street was completely closed down for a block which caused a certain amount of traffic havoc. I got a close-up look at the deserted [...]

2007 08 14 Vancouver Comments (0)

Off to Oxford

I’m leaving for Oxford this afternoon; haven’t had much time for blogging in the last few days, what with recovering from the Berlin trip and getting ready for this one. Not to mention coping with an extremely clingy toddler, who gets jealous of Mummy’s laptop, and the phone, and anyone who dares get in between [...]

2007 07 19 Family Comments (3)

Thank You

To the anonymous reader of my blog who bought books on Amazon using my associates link, thank you! Not so much for the few cents it brought me but for the fact that it means you thought enough of what I wrote to check out the books and spend your own money to get a [...]

2007 06 26 Books Comments (0)