Alex is here to lead us in a print workshop. My previous printing experiment failed with intaglio style printing. I meant to try imitation letterpress but didn’t get around to it. Alex is showing us block printing and she knows what she’s doing. Here I try to liveblog what she’s doing. It’s not going to [...]
I’ve recently picked up an Arduino with an ethernet shield. I didn’t have good reason to, and I probably shouldn’t have paid as much as I did, but it sure is a fun toy. I say that as someone who’s played around a little with AVRs too. I bought my kit on Friday night. I [...]
The report resulting from the privacy complaint against Facebook has just been released. Just like when the complaint was reported on slashdot, there’s a lot of hubbub about the complaint being accepted. Well, when you’re collecting information on Canadians, you ought to respect Canadian privacy law. Facebook has made a few changes to their privacy [...]
At BookcampTO I got a lot of attention during the Kindle, Schmindle talk when I brought up changing attitudes towards print books in higher education. The reason I gave was that I downloaded books under Creative Commons, GFDL and free-as-in-beer licenses. I’d like to give more context and a few examples of the textbooks [...]
I’m three quarters of the way through reading Who Controls the Internet by Tim Wu (yes, that Tim Wu) and Jack Goldsmith. It’s an interesting read that doesn’t require a technical background. It begins with the introduction of DNS back when it was a simple hosts.txt file and touches upon events as recent as the [...]
As of this writing the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is the most compatible with Leopard out of all the netbooks. You can install from a retail copy and just about everything works. Here’s a few tips.
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