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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yup, it’s on again. Northern Voice, that is, for 2008. February 22-23, 2008, at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC, where we held it last year. It will be the same format (Moose Camp unconference on Friday, conference on Saturday), with some sort of party on the Thursday evening. More details will appear on [...]
In the midst of the U.S. housing crisis, Paul Kedrosky asks, quite reasonably, Why Do We Want People to Own Homes? I’ve been wondering that myself. Is it because people think houses are a good investment? Because they have sentimental attachments to the idea of owning the roof over their head? Because they want to [...]
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 [...]
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