I picked up the March issue of Wired today to read editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s feature on the so-called “freeconomy” that’s been moving a long steadily as the Internet has become more popular: free music downloads, reading newspapers for free online, free e-mail from various web mail providers, et cetera.
The purchase was ironic since I had [...]
Archive > February 2008
My ironic purchase of the latest issue of Wired
Green Party of Canada: You’ve spammed me for the last time
In most areas, I have a tendency to support the underdogs.
Several years ago, that tendency led to me signing a petition to allow the Green Party of Canada to appear on the televised political debates.
I thought nothing of including my e-mail address on the petition but this turned out to be the big mistake.
It seems [...]
Eclipsed by the urban landscape
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bigger3, originally uploaded by goldstardeputy.
Last night there was a beautiful lunar eclipse where the moon turned almost blood red.
Or so I heard.
My problem in getting to enjoy this phenomenon was two-fold. First [...]
Lots of work lately
Wow, I realize once again that I really need to work on updating this site more.
That said, for once it hasn’t been out of laziness, but being busy.
To see what I’ve been up to, check out two articles I wrote up for Scan this month:
First there’s Unconferences getting geeks to congregate, in which I explored [...]
The Orange Box: How to kill a long weekend…
Apparently it’s Sunday and I’m not sure where the rest of my weekend went. I think it has something to do with having purchased The Orange Box on Friday.
I’m pretty late to the part on this one (It came out mid-2007) but it’s mine now and it’s taken over.
See, The Orange Box [...]
Been trying to ignore this MicroHoo business…
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Flickr Resistance Against Microsoft Takeover, originally uploaded by sonicwalker.
But I’ve decided to stop that as I’ve pondered some of the implications.
Oh yeah, and users of the Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr are [...]
