On The Other Hand

I just finished reading an article on copyright by the always insightful Dare Obasanjo.  I have many friends in the film and music businesses and I often end up trying to explain my thoughts on the issue.  Here’s what I think…
I guess I have two issues, not with copyright per se (I am a software [...]

I’ve been reading the fantastic future perfect blog this morning and it’s got me thinking about my mobile essentials — i.e. the things I absolutely must have on my person when I leave home.  Most of the time these include keys, cash, wallet (credit/debit, id, business cards), USB key, and my cellphone.  Sometimes it includes my [...]

I wrote my first ever personal letter to an elected representative today. It’s not exactly earth-shattering stuff but definitely worthy of a blog entry. For your reading pleasure, here is my note to my councillor of HRM District 12, Dawn Sloane.
Councillor Sloane,
I am a resident of your district and live at 1343 Barrington Street. Over the [...]

My hosted email at Google is down again.  This is the fourth time this month.  Growing pains?

I’ve got some old gear I’m trying to find a home for. First off, some high end CRT monitors which would be great for a graphic designer or anyone who cares more about colour accuracy than what an LCD can offer. Check them out on Craigslist at the link above if you’re in Halifax and interested. Also if [...]

Wired is running an article about the changing nature of big computing. It is no secret to most CTO’s that electricity and cooling are now the single largest costs in running a data center. By some estimates, Google and the other big search providers, for example, use up to 5GW to power and cool the [...]

How many times have you come up with a brilliant, million-dollar idea only to hear (or say to yourself), “Oh, so-and-so already did that.”
Stop doing that.
History is littered with examples of people coming to the party late, executing better, and eventually eating the incumbent’s lunch. Take, for example, Google. What do you think the world [...]

I spent the weekend putting together this shiny new weblog. It was quite an experience. Two days of package installing, page designing, server configuring, code wrangling, error figuring goodness.
Inspiration
There were a few reasons why I decided to spend days of my precious free time on this project. First off, my DNS was on a server [...]