This year I participated in One Web Day. OWD promotes Web issues to the public. It celebrates that every participant to the web is also a contributor. As part of Tucows’ support and involvement, we collected over 10GB of public domain and Creative Commons ebooks. These will be loaded onto computers we donated to the…
Wherein our hero (yeah, that’s me) finds his father was right (again). Has his picture taken with pr0n stars. (OK, not really.) And proves, once again (as if it really needed to be proved again) that he is an altakaker.
Google is set to stand communications on its head. Again. The soon to be released Google Wave program, web app, platform, protocol, paradigm is introducing a new way to do email, IM, forums, wikis, social networking and blogs. All-in-one. And not to put too fine a point on it, it looks pretty slick. Not only…
I missed it last year, but I’ll be there with bells on this year! WordCamp is a series of regional conferences dedicated to our favourite blogging platform, WordPress, as well as blogging and social networking in general. Get the 411 at https://phug.ca/wordcamptoronto/. WCT is coming this Friday May 8, through to Sunday May 10. Registration…
I’ve always thought of Ada Lovelace as being a contemporary of Mary Shelley. Turns out Shelley was a friend of her father’s, Lord Byron, who Lovelace hardly knew. She is widely credited with being the first computer programmer, having written a description of how to setup Charles Babbage‘s Analytical Engine to produce Bernoulli Numbers. Of…
I’d heard about RiP: A Remix Manifesto on CBC’s very excellent Search Engine podcast a couple of weeks ago. I’m not sure how it bubbled up (probably through Facebook), but I ended up going to see it at the Royal on opening night with Morty and Bebe. WARNING: You will come out of this movie…
The CRTC is in the process of gathering comments on Net Neutrality from Canadians, in preparation for their hearings on the subject this summer. Now is your oportunity to let your voice be heard on this important subject. Our friends at SaveOurNet.ca have set up a handy form to send your thoughts on the matter…
On June 19th one of my favourite podcasts, CBC’s Search Engine, announced they were being taken off the air. I was so upset I started a Facebook group, Saving CBC’s Search Engine, which managed to attract over 800 other unhappy fans of the show. Search Engine tackles some of the most important issues facing Canadians…
Google is today releasing a new browser called Chrome. It’s supposed to be much faster and more robust than existing alternatives. (Yes, even better than FF. Can you believe it?) Google describes the philosophy and advantages in a 38 page comic book: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ The big question is what this will mean for the current players? …
Over a month ago I contacted Ken Dryden’s riding office to arrange a meeting with my Member of Parliament. I expected to see him within a week or two; I’d tell him of my concerns related to various issues of the day, and he’d take that into consideration when he returned to Ottawa. But no. …