The State of the Interwebs
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
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copyfight | cyberculture | media | politics
Podcasts We Love
I’ve been giving my mom my castoff MP3 players. Recently I bought my parents His & Her’s iPod Nano’s. New ones even. And that’s when Mom discovered the joy of podcasts. She’s got her own faves, but they’re mostly (all) French, which doesn’t really jive with my readership (yep, the same three dudes). So I…
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Crash and Renewal
I was on my way to work, on a fine Tuesday morning. Heading South on Dufferin, at Davenport, I had the green. A white Volvo was headed North, but suddenly, without signaling or giving me my right of way, turned West, crossing into my lane. I swerved trying to avoid it, but no go. It…
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How Do You Spell AT&T?
Hey Jim. Jim! Hold a minute y’all. I gots a question for you Jim. I want to aks you, how you spell AT&T, Jim? I-N, C-O-M, P-E-T, E-N-T. That’s how you spell AT&T, Jim. How you spell Comcast, Jim? Same fucking thing.
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Shafted In Florida: How AT&T Ruined My Vacation
Currently taking a short break from the winter cold, in Florida. Usually, my parents would be down here, and we would join them; but they had to remain in Toronto due to medical treatments. So we ended up opening the house. My mother called AT&T ahead of our trip, and asked them to have the…
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bidness | code | good works
Vigilance Alert: Time to Save the Web!
Saving the web, like saving the world, isn’t something you do once and then forget about it. You always have to be on the lookout for threats to our freedom of communication. Sometimes, those threats creep in through the backdoor.
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A Sunday
Lovely day today. Yvonne was off work, so we thought we might spend the day together. What a novel idea! We were thinking of going to the Toronto International Art Fair, but our friends Hugh and Diane warned us it was lame. They instead recommended the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition at Nathan Philips Square, in…
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One Web Day 2009
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…
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Starting XAMPP Automatically Upon Login on OSX
I was SO getting tired of opening a terminal window to get my web server going when I needed to do some web dev on my MacBook Pro, I finally started looking around for ways to start XAMPP on it’s own when I booted my machine. I found the answer deep in the forums. It…
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Sitepoint Gives Away Free Book on Building Firefox Extensions
Regular readers of this blog will know I’m a huge fan of Firefox (the ultimate browser for developing web apps) and Sitepoint (a set of wonderful resources for web developers and designers). What makes Firefox the best tool for web developers (and others)? It’s the extensions. And now, for a limited time, Sitepoint is offering…