I’ve volunteered to perform at the Toronto Protest in support Robert Dziekanski at Queen’s Park and have been asked to play around 1:00pm tomorrow. Check out the website and the Facebook group for more information, or see the CBC story on YouTube (part 1, part 2). It’s really terrible what […]
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Did you know that when you’re viewing mail in your Gmail account you’re not using a secure connection by default? That means that anyone who’s sniffing traffic on your network can intercept your packets and essentially read your email or, worse yet, steal your session (ie. login to Gmail as […]
A message from Glassescrafter.com While you might not want to buy glasses online there are some aspects of online glasses shopping that are helpful. Not only can you find designer glasses that not all optometrists offer amongst their glasses varieties, you can find international styles of glasses frames online as […]
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I’ve been meaning to make a post on some economic ideas I’ve been reading about, namely the contrast between the economics of scarcity and the economics of abundance. I’ll get to it soon, but let this post serve as a precursor in the meantime. Gene Simmons is a funny guy, […]
I’ve ranted before about why I don’t use MySpace, but I admit there have been times when I’ve been tempted. You can get much better technical services through hosting your music elsewhere, but the community exists on MySpace. There’s no social networking aspect to hosting your own website. But the […]
The Green Party of Canada has become the first Canadian political party to officially support free and open source software in its election platform. The policy has both philosophical and technical motivations. The Green Party’s policy explains briefly how free and open source software is compatible with Green ideas: As […]
Microsoft clearly believes it knows better than users and system administrators of Windows computers. A few weeks ago, even users who had auto-update off received an unannounced, forced upgrade to Windows Desktop Search (WDS), whether or not WDS was even active on the computer. This, without permission from the user. […]
Industry Canada, a ministry of the federal government, released a study this past week that suggests a positive correlation between peer-to-peer downloading and CD purchasing. While this may come as a surprise to the CRIA and many in the recording industry, it certainly is merely confirmation of personal practices for […]