October 2004
PBS Frontline: Rumsfeld’s War
Posted by on Sunday, October 31, 2004 in - 3 comments
Watch the PBS documentary in small streaming format from PBS.org or download the higher-quality bittorrent version • The PBS Frontline special, Rumsfeld’s War, details the internal power struggles that have shaped American foreign policy over the last ten years. The documentary is available, as …
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 16
Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2004 in - 24 comments
This, the sixteenth session of Acts of Volition Radio is a collection of hidden gems. These are great songs that you have likely never heard before (most of them, at least). This session features a super-duper-quadruple-pack of a band you've almost certainly never heard of before, Chagall Guevera …
Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2004
Posted by on Friday, October 29, 2004
Point here if you support Ralph Nader for President: enblogment (disclaimer: I'm a Canadian citizen)
Posted by on Friday, October 29, 2004
The Descent of the American Empire
Posted by on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 in - 131 comments
Growing up a couple hundred miles from the U.S. border in Canada’s smaller province, I’ve always had a sense that we in Canada have a unique vantage point on the United States of America. From here, we can see that America is a large beast, but we are too close to see the whole thing. Sleeping …
Our friend Alan has a new Beer Blog and I couldn't help but make up a quick beer-themed layout for it.
Posted by on Tuesday, October 26, 2004
I've got tickets to see Gordie Sampson's solo acoustic show at the MacKenzie Theatre on Nov 5
Posted by on Sunday, October 24, 2004
While he was on his trip in Croatia, Peter Rukavina seems to have found the spot at Helms Deep where Legolas surfed on his sheild.
Posted by on Sunday, October 24, 2004
Canadian historian, Pierre Burton explains how to roll a joint (4.6MB QuickTime movie) - courtesy of Rick Mercer's Monday Report
Posted by on Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Telling the World About Open Source Software
Posted by on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 in - 10 comments
When I first heard of the idea for the latest community campaign to help promote Firefox, I was a little skeptical. The idea was (is) to ask for donations of $30 from people. With the money, they will buy an ad (hopefully full page) in the New York Times about the 1.0 release of Firefox (coming …
Hate Rays - a definition
Posted by on Sunday, October 17, 2004 in - 2 comments
Hate Rays – (hät’ räz) noun. • An intense feeling of anger or hatred directed physically towards an individual, group, or object. Direction is often indicate with an intense stare, though eye contact is not necessary. Usage: She sent hate rays in his direction as he, oblivious, slurped his soup …
USB2/Firewire PC Card adapter that doesn't stick out?
Posted by on Sunday, October 17, 2004 - 12 comments
Does anyone know if there is a PC Card (PCMCIA) with USB2 and/or Firewire ports that doesn’t stick out of the side of your laptop? Something that ads the ports but stays flush with the side of your laptop so you can leave it in all the time.
Posted by on Saturday, October 16, 2004
Posted by on Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Notes from the Gnome Summit in Boston
Posted by on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 in - 6 comments
I drove down to Boston this weekend for the Gnome Summit. I have posted my photos from the trip and collected some rough notes on the experience: • The who/what/where/when/why/how of marketing open source software to normal humans (non-developers) is uncharted territory. I’m skeptical that we …
Tod Maffin does a piece for CBC radio about personal web audio "podcasting" - including some references to our audio work
Posted by on Thursday, October 7, 2004
At the Gnome Summit
Posted by on Thursday, October 7, 2004 in - 4 comments
I'm at the Gnome Summit at the Frank Gehry designed MIT Stata Center in Boston until tuesday. Check out the floorplan.
The Internet Is Amazing
Posted by on Wednesday, October 6, 2004 in - 6 comments
Since many of us use it every day, it is easy to lose sight of just how remarkable the internet can be. This morning, I had a quick chat with my friend Peter, who is usually downstairs in the building our companies share. Today, though, he is in Croatia.
Need a place to stay in Boston this weekend (got one!)
Posted by on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - 2 comments
I’m driving down to Boston for the Gnome Boston Summit this weekend. I’m looking for a place to stay near the MIT campus in Cambridge on the nights of Friday (Oct 8) to Monday (Oct 11) - leaving on Tuesday morning. • Hotels are booked or foolishly expensive (short notice, I guess). Anyone have …
If you have Norton Personal Firewall installed, help me out
Posted by on Monday, October 4, 2004 in
I’m looking for some help with an issue I’m having with the Mozilla.org website and the Norton Personal Firewall product. • If you have the Norton Personal Firewall installed and a bit of knowledge about web-browsers (knowing what a web browser is should suffice), and are willing to help me test …
A Math/Physics Word Problem
Posted by on Sunday, October 3, 2004 in - 127 comments
If you are walking from point A to point B in the rain, do you get more or less wet depending on how fast you walk? • Sounds stupidly simple, doesn’t it. Not so (for me, at least). Here are some things we can assume for the sake of the problem: • let’s assume you are rectangular - let’s say, 1 …
Highlights from a Modern Workplace
Posted by on Sunday, October 3, 2004 - 8 comments
I have spent much of the last five years working with a fine team of like-minded people. Fools and geniuses, we have managed to accomplish quite a bit. It has been, and continues to be, an interesting ride. Here are some random highlights: • There was a time when our CEO IM’ed in late to work …