July 2005
Posted by on Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Why I’m Getting Married
Posted by on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 in - 29 comments
As I announced here just under a year ago, I’m engaged to be married this coming Friday (July 22nd). In the months leading up to the proposal, I did a lot of thinking about what it means to be married. In the last year, my fiance and I have also spoken about the meaning of our upcoming commitment …
Acts of Volition Radio in the News
Posted by on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 in - 8 comments
I had a request from a journalist to give some thoughts on “podcasting”. As I mention below, I’m still a bit lamed-out by the actual term “podcasting”, but if it helps people learn about cool audio online, then I can live with it. It’s no worse than “blog” anyhow. • I figured my email response …
Acts of Volition Radio: Session 22
Posted by on Sunday, July 17, 2005 in - 15 comments
This, the 22nd session of Acts of Volition Radio, was recorded the the safe-harbour of my office on a Saturday night. Meanwhile, back at my house (from which I was temporarily banished), my bride-to-be and her friends celebrated the waning days of her life as a single woman. The songs don't really …
RSS Readers for the Gnome Desktop
Posted by on Friday, July 15, 2005 in - 1 comment
I’ve written a brief article about RSS readers available for the free/open-source Gnome Desktop for The Gnome Journal. • The Gnome Journal is “an online magazine devoted to everything surrounding the Gnome Desktop”. This issue also includes an interesting article about marketing Gnome …
Live from the Formosa, Session Four
Posted by on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 in - 1 comment
This afternoon Peter Rukavina, Dan James, and I recorded a new session of Live at the Formosa, live at the, uh, Formosa. • Live at the Formosa is an occasional radio show (I’m still ashamed of the word “podcast”, but I’ll get over it) we record at the Formosa Tea House, a regular lunch haunt of …
Posted by on Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Intriguing video demos of a two-hand touch surface as a coputer input device - includes tactile feedback (I've always wondered why a computer mouse doesn't give tactile feedback)
Posted by on Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Posted by on Tuesday, July 12, 2005
The yellow Don't @#%*ing tell me who to support ribbon
Posted by on Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Remarkable PBS Frontline episode about private contractors working for the US in Iraq (online in streaming Real or Windows media formats)
Posted by on Saturday, July 9, 2005
Sad photo of Paris 2012 Olympic paraphanalia being sold off (probably photoshopped)
Posted by on Wednesday, July 6, 2005
Google is now in the top 100 largest companies in the world. It was incorporated only 7 years ago.
Posted by on Tuesday, July 5, 2005
Intellectual Property Rights Vs. Human Rights
Posted by on Saturday, July 2, 2005 in - 3 comments
Just as I was feeling good about humanity, I visit the CBC Streaming Audio page only to see this message: • “ • Due to rights issues around the Live 8 concert, CBC.ca will stop streaming all CBC Radio One signals at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, July 2. The streaming will resume sometime after 4 a.m …
Live 8 in my Living Room
Posted by on Saturday, July 2, 2005 in - 4 comments
Every once and a while I get an insight into just how extraordinary much of the technology we take for granted actually is. • This Saturday morning in my living room in a small city in the northeastern tip of North America, I was walking around with my little laptop. The speakers on the laptop …