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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 General Comments (5)

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 General Comments (10)

Unthinking Sexism

When I was at uni­ver­sity in Auck­land, one guy said to me that he hadn’t real­ized he was sex­ist until he met me. I’ve always found dis­crim­in­a­tion based on the bio­lo­gical cap­ab­il­ity of bear­ing chil­dren to make about as much sense as dis­crim­in­a­tion based on eye col­our. It seems much of the world doesn’t agree, […]

2007 04 24 General Comments (9)

Shipping to Canada

I see Dave Shea has been explain­ing why he doesn’t typ­ic­ally order goods online; I’ve ordered lots of goods online and had mixed exper­i­ences. I usu­ally only buy online if 1) I can’t find what I’m look­ing for loc­ally, or 2) it’s sub­stan­tially cheaper than buy­ing loc­ally. I also make sure of war­ranty implic­a­tions for […]

2006 11 15 General Comments (15)

Liquid Matters

I see from the TSA web­site that we’re now allowed small quant­it­ies of liquids on board flights in the U.S.A., and I assume other coun­tries will also start allow­ing these items. And knit­ting needles and books are still allowed, so we’ll have some­thing to do on the flights. The thought of a long flight to […]

2006 10 03 Travel Comments (1)

Cats and Quizzes

I don’t usu­ally do quizzes, but I couldn’t res­ist this one. Cur­rently life is a little on the stress­ful side for me, as you can see: You scored as Pissed at the World Cat. And here we have the next serial killer. Try hav­ing some cot­ton candy, it’ll make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, […]

2005 11 02 Comments Off