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…
‘We desire death as you desire life.’ – Hamas Melanie Philips of the Daily Mail in the UK wrote a devastating analysis of the war. The one place I disagree with her is in her conclusion: But the Middle East conflict will not end until and unless the West comes to realise that Israel is…
As previously reported, I proudly registered my phone numbers on the National Do Not Call List the day it went live. Since then I’ve received the usual number of telemarketing pitches from the usual assortment of crooks, swindlers and Conservatives. In each case, I submitted a complaint about them at the DNCL website, but haven’t…
I’ve been kept very busy over the past couple of months setting up butterscotch.com: Tucows’ new video network, brimming with terrific videos, short and long, providing tips, tricks and insights into technology for pros and tyros. Our new team includes tech media veterans Andy Walker, as General Manager and Executive Producer; Amber MacArthur, Director of…
In spite of Apple’s many transgressions, I finally caved, and bought a Touch. What transgressions? They’re suing a small Victoria, BC business school over the apple logo. The iPhone/Touch doesn’t have cut and paste. The iPhone/Touch doesn’t have an SD card slot for extra memory. The iPhone/Touch SDK comes with a punishingly harsh NDA. Ok,…