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 the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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