Archive for May, 2007

Crisis or opportunity for cyberlawyer?

I said I was too busy to blog but something interesting has come up and I’m on lunch break. Well, Michael Geist is being sued for defamation. Geist explains that he’s being sued “for maintaining a blogroll that links to a site that links to a site that contains some allegedly defamatory third party comments.” [...]

“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Canadian House of Commons”

I think it’s about time to say how much progress I’ve made while trying to post House of Commons video to YouTube. Well, I’ve made no progress. I did not receive the questionnaire that was supposed to be mailed to me. I didn’t call back as this week as I’ve got three deliverables due Friday [...]

I’m in a new element

I learned a small lesson in humility today. I was load testing a telecom application and something went wrong. Part of the test was simulating a few dozen calls per second passed through a MSC. All of a sudden my call rate drops to zero.
Well, I’ll dump all the logs I possibly can, restart and [...]

Neutrality.ca [is now] kicking, [not] flatlining

Update June 8th 2007: On June 5th, Dr. Michael Geist has brought neutrality.ca back up. Courtesy of David Eaves you can see Kevin McArthur’s explanation of the downtime on Facebook. And now, the old post:
Neutrality.ca has just shown a glimmer of life. It’s said that it’s been migrating to a new owner for about a [...]

Inching along the road to getting clips from Commons

I was surprised that the number I was given rang through to a person rather than a machine, and she picked up on the first ring! I mentioned I wanted to republish a clip of a question period. She asked me something about who I represent, but I’m not sure if she asked me if I were a broadcasting company or a news agency. I replied, “No, I’m just a person, and I want to post clips on YouTube.” It sounds like there was no standard answer to that. I’ll be sent a questionnaire.

Did you tape CPAC for me? Why are you laughing?

Recently I tried to understand how easy it would be to hit archives of the House of Commons to get clips of bill readings or debates. I thought it’d be useful for any writeups I do, I could add soundbites and a face to the bill. I can’t think of any small blogs that do [...]