March 2003
Updates to Acts of Volition behind the scenes
Posted by on Monday, March 31, 2003 - 1 comment
Acts of Volition has received a significant technical overhaul. Things should look pretty much the same as the changes are mostly related to acronyms: • Moved from CFM to PHP • Moved from HTML to XHTML/CSS • updated RSS/XML • Cleaner URLS • Improved search and archives • Thanks to all …
The Gulf War Song
Posted by on Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 15 comments
Posted here with the kind permission of band-member Jian Ghomeshi, is Moxy Früvous' Gulf War Song (3.6Mb MP3). The song was written in response to the first Gulf War in 1991. This does not imply any endorsement of this site by the band. Jian requested that I make it clear that this is not for …
TV News as Wallpaper: Ubiquitous infotainment for the business traveller
Posted by on Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 6 comments
A recent trip led me to a few days spent mostly in airports, hotels, hotel, and restaurants. A few days into the trip, I was having breakfast in a hotel restaurant. From where I was sitting, I could see three or four televisions mounted on the ceiling in the various corners of the large lobby …
If a tree falls in the forest, and there's no one there to blog it...
Posted by on Wednesday, March 12, 2003 in - 4 comments
Being almost as North-by-North-East as you can get on this continent, I didn't get to the South by South West conference. However, the host of the SXSW Web Awards ceremony, John Styn (this link leads to a man in pink briefs), put together a series of videos in the style of Apple's Switch campaign …
802.11g doesn’t work (yet)
Posted by on Saturday, March 8, 2003 - 11 comments
Several of my co-workers and I recently went on an IBM ThinkPad shopping spree and we decided it was time to go WiFi at our office. • We did some reading on the available protocols (I've worked up a helpful addition to this chart to the right). 802.11b is everywhere. 802.11a seems to be nowhere …
Open Software Development Process
Posted by on Friday, March 7, 2003 in - 1 comment
When you spend much of every day in front of a computer (which you probably do if you are reading this), you come to know the intricacies and quirks of your software much as a musician comes to know the feel of their favourite instrument. Sometimes the smallest bugs can become the biggest …