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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 […]

2007 11 14 Technology Comments (1)

Moose 2008

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 the […]

2007 11 11 Conference Comments (0)

Owning Homes

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 […]

2007 10 11 General Comments (6)

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 General Comments (0)

Flu Survival Kit

The Moose Fever that befell what seems to be half the North­ern­Voice attendees (although to be fair, lots of other people I know in Van­couver are down with the flu as well, it seems par­tic­u­larly vir­u­lent this year) is slowly loosen­ing its grip. It’s more than a little dis­con­cert­ing when you go through the list […]

2007 03 01 Family Comments (0)

Northern Voice Weekend

The week­end is going to be full of North­ern Voice, I can just tell. The must-dos for me are the din­ner on the Thursday even­ing (sorry, sold out), the uncon­fer­ence day on the Fri­day (I’ll be going to the ses­sion on iden­tity and pri­vacy of course, and whatever else takes my fancy once I’m there), […]

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2007 02 21 Conference Comments (0)