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 was sitting in my book history lecture and looking at a picture of a compositor putting his type into a galley. Later, we watched a video of John Kristensen talking up letterpress. It shows him laying out illumination by hand. It also shows his linotype, but he still spent a fair bit of time [...]
I’ve had some problems with SugarSync. My Leopard install died, and I also reformatted my Windows 7 machine to go from RC1 to the copy of RTM I received through MSDNAA. Now I can’t add my “new” machines to SugarSync because I’m at my two machine limit. Worse still, I can’t have my “new” machine [...]
Image via Wikipedia The CRTC held day two of their new media hearings today, with more to follow in a week. The goal is of the hearings is to figure out just what to do with this new fangled media, to discern whether incentives or regulation is required to encourage the spread of Canadian content. [...]
When talking about microblogging I often see this question asked: “What can you say in 140 characters?” My answer is “Maybe a sentence, sometimes with a citation.” That falls within 140 characters but it’s missing too much, which is why I’m writing this short post. Most people I talk to hear “microblogging” and put too [...]
I don’t recall writing to the Minister of Industry about the iPhone plan, but I think I signed an online petition to him a while back. I’m surprised I got this reply. Thank you for your e-mail regarding rate plans proposed by Rogers for iPhone services.As Canada’s wireless market has been deregulated since the mid [...]
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