We’ve been busy and are flying out to Ayer’s Rock in a few hours, but here’s a quick summary from the last few days. June 26/27: We stopped over in Canberra (photos) for a night on the way from Sydney to Melbourne, saw the Australian Institute of Sport (photos) and […]
Monthly archives: June 2008
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I’m proud to be a member of both the Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC) and the Canadian Music Creators Coalition (CMCC). Both organizations have expressed their disappointment with Bill C-61. It’s not that hard, really, but it’s noteworthy since the bill is supposed to be “protecting artists.” The SAC is […]
We’ve arrived. After parting with family in Toronto, we barely made it past airport security. That is, as Heather picked up her bags to walk away after being cleared and she dropped her boarding pass and stepped on it. She was ready to keep walking too, if I hadn’t spotted […]
I’m posting this quickly from the Vancouver airport. I’ve thrown together a page at http://blaise.ca/australia as a home base for updates from my trip to Australia over the next month. There’s nothing really there yet, but there will be soon. I’ll be blogging intermittently and updating Twitter throughout the trip […]
Given the tabing of Bill C-61 this week (aka “the Canadian DMCA”), I’ve decided to put the coverage in context with some practical examples and questions. Under the new legislation: It will be illegal for anyone in my house to watch a DVD on a computer, since we run GNU/Linux […]
I have a third generation 40 GB iPod. In the past year, I’ve hardly used it for two reasons. First and foremost, the battery was pretty much dead. I couldn’t get more then a few subway rides of play time or a few minutes of transfer time to my computer. […]
[This post originally appeared on Techdirt.] Hockey Night in Canada is an award-winning program that airs on Saturday nights on CBC Television featuring eccentric hosts, Ron MacLean and Don Cherry. The show has been broadcast on television weekly since 1952 (Wikipedia claims it’s the “oldest sports-related television program still on […]
The problems with DMCA takedown notices have been clear for a while, but… laser printers? From the New York Times (via Bruce Schneier): A new study from the University of Washington suggests that media industry trade groups are using flawed tactics in their investigations of users who violate copyrights on […]
(Note: A revised version of this article has been posted on Techdirt.) Matt Asay writes about Nick Carr’s article in the July issue of The Atlantic, “Is Google making us stupid?” I’m not so sure that you can make such a generalization, but the Internet certainly seems to be making […]