Pope Benedict XVI defends World Youth Day, head on: Benedict laid out the traditional critique of World Youth Day – one that he knows well a few of his own lieutenants are, at times, inclined to share. “What, therefore, is the nature of what happens at World Youth Day?†the […]
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When Facebook first launched music pages back in November 2007, I predicted a shift away from MySpace. A couple months later, I created a MySpace profile for myself, ending a self-imposed boycott. It was stupid of me to ignore the community (MySpace is simply where musicians are, unfortunately), but beyond […]
Everything I Want To See is a song I finished writing over the summer and recorded at Robyn’s in September. This is actually the what-do-you-think-of-this-song live-off-the-floor version, but it’s the only recording I have so far. I first played this at Hugh’s Room at the Humber Summer Songwriting Workshop showcase. […]
Canvases is a song I finished writing over the summer and recorded at Robyn’s in September. This is actually the what-do-you-think-of-this-song live-off-the-floor version, but I prefer it to the one we tried to work on. Uploaded, as it’s the first recording I have of this song, though I’ve played it […]
I was introduced to LastGraph recently, a Last.fm application that lets you explore your listening history. The coolest feature is the LastGraph poster, which provides you with a visualization of your listening habits over a given time span. Here’s a poster detailing my listening habits over the last year. Very […]
Stumbled upon a great version of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel by Joshua James.
This post originally appeared on Techdirt. There was a time when online petitions were pretty common, but they never were that effective at actually lobbying government, mainly because there’s no easy way to validate signatures. The concept was ported straight from the analog world to the digital, but it’s interesting […]
This post originally appeared on Techdirt. The Copyright Board of Canada has decided to increase the levy on blank CDs from 21 cents to 29 cents each. The levy is a sort of “you’re a criminal tax” that assumes blank CDs are going to be used for unauthorized copying. Blank […]
This is a pretty obscure and incomplete howto, but I was left to figure all this out without much help so I figure I might as well post what I learned in case it is of assistance to anyone else. At the office, we’re running a Linksys NSLU2 with the […]