Recently someone from the hacklab put up a note saying that he had a SheevaPlug to give to a good home. I jumped on the offer. Thanks again, Brian! I’m going to be blogging a little bit about what I’m doing to show that I do have a good home for it. The first thing [...]
Image by rb3m via Flickr This target market is pretty specific, I know, but I wrote a script to make searching for books at available at my local library more easy while browsing Goodreads. I’m starting to use Goodreads to track what I’m reading and also find suggestions from friends.
Yesterday was the first CrisisCamp in Toronto. I heard about it from Jacqui Maher‘s presentation at CUSEC, and I decided to attend not really knowing what to expect. It turned out that there were six projects to tackle, and I tried to help with the machine translation project. The idea was to provide an easily [...]
I’m still at CUSEC 2010 in Montreal. My plan was to take notes and quickly publish here, but then at the last minute I decided to liveblog for CUSEC instead. It’s at http://live.cusec.net/. So far my favourite talk was from Matt Knox, talking about ethics and how the human brain has a remote root: we [...]
By now everyone has heard of the earthquake that hit Haiti. There isn’t much of a food reserve, there isn’t a great deal of domestic rescue equipment or personnel, and there isn’t an abundance of shelter. I recently read a report saying that none of the hospitals in Port-au-Prince were operational. Since most of my [...]
(Screenshot snagged from straight.com.) I remember when Telus shut down thousands of websites to take down their union’s website. Serverloft might have just done the same. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article on the takedown of the Yes Men site. I did find an article from straight.com which claims to have the original complaint. The [...]
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