Keyfob hack Originally uploaded by Global Hermit My very ingenious colleague, Sean “D-List Internet Celebrity” Carruthers, hacked his new car’s keyfob to disable its panic button when he bends over. My solution would be to STOP BENDING OVER like that. But, hey! Different strokes dude.
Congratulations to Ross Rader and his team! Together they beat the cross-Ontario cycling record by 45 minutes. Check out the cycling blog at https://ultrarider.ca/. It’s also not too late to sponsor them and help children with cancer. Donate to the Coast to Coast Cancer Foundation.
Our favourite moron is giving $150 million to private broadcasters, but is forcing the CBC to decimate its workforce by some 800 heads. If we had any doubts of the Harper government’s agenda to put down the CBC, they’ve now been put to rest. I don’t know about you, but I’m livid. Clearly Harper missed…
While I’ll be lapping up the WordPress goodness at WordCamp this Friday, Ross Rader, avid cyclo-fanatic and director of Tucows‘ Hover division, will be hard at work on trashing the cross-Ontario cycling record. He’s doing this to raise awareness, and funds, for the Coast to Coast Against Cancer Foundation. Ross will be cycling 874km, trying…
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…
It’s been a dreadful few days. So I thought I’d share. Saturday night I was on my way to a party at Centro, to celebrate my friend Brian’s 50th birthday. The radio station was cutting out. I thought some poor bastard was probably scrambling in a control room somewhere; so I’ll give him a few…
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…
Last night my friends Kali and David invited me to a memorial for Lupe Rodrigues, the CBC’s artist-at-large. I’d heard Lupe reviewing art exhibits on CBC radio’s Here and Now program, hosted by Matt Galloway. As it turned out, I had intersected with her a couple of other times, but hadn’t connected. A few years…