It started innocently enough. A couple weeks ago, my dad called me at work to ask if I could stop at Canadian Tire on my way home to pay for some mirror extenders he'd ordered for his truck. “They wouldn't take your credit card over the phone?” I asked. “No. They said you had to […]
I recently came across two articles that propose radically different visions of the future of newspapers. The two articles took specific interest in the New York Times which many consider the “newspaper of record” for the United States but which, like many newspapers, has been hemorrhaging money in recent years. In the first article, a […]
I'm trying to free up some space on my hard drive (70 GB of music on a 200 GB drive will do that to you) so am looking through my duplicate MP3 files (which make up ~10 GB of that collection). Looking closer, I see that there are a few songs that I have no […]
I've written about the Saskatchewan Single Integrated Library System before but now I see this massive project to bring all of our regional and city library systems together in a single consortium arrangement is getting some mainstream media coverage as well. A job for a librarian who will coordinate the technical aspects of the project […]
Stopped by the Regina KidSport's Chili Cook-off in downtown Regina today for a bowl of delicious NDP chili (no, it wasn't vegetarian for those who think all NDP'ers are granola crunchers.) The various Regina and area MLA's who were tending the table were being coy with whose recipe it was so I developed a couple […]
Found this clip on Reddit and though it's a bit different than my usual Music Monday clips, I thought it was worth sharing as it's definitely got music in it and it's a pretty cool visual too! (Of course, it'll probably come out that this is a viral advertising campaign for Coke One or something. […]
As is probably quite obvious, I try to post to this blog on a daily basis at the minimum. I occasionally miss the odd day (and even then, I sometimes back date posts the next morning to keep up the daily post record – if you see a post dated anytime within ten minutes to […]
Amazing what getting a mobile phone will do in terms of making your realise that your blog is quite, uhm…heavy…with all kinds of marginally useful widgets, random links and assorted other junk. Luckily, there's a really easy way to use Google Reader to create a poor man's mobile version of your blog.Just bookmark the following […]
We all have those songs that are so catchy or that have great lyrics or that we connect with so strongly for other reasons that we could put them on repeat on our music players and just listen to them over and over (in the old days, this same effect was accomplished by taping the […]
Because Cory Doctorow's new novel, “Little Brother” is the first e-book I'm reading on my iPhone (very readable, thank-you very much), I got to see his copyright notice which I'm reproducing here in its entirety because it's such a great summary of how copyright should work in a sane and rational world: THE COPYRIGHT THING […]
