A slightly doctored image of John the Evangelist.
For the past three years, I’ve held the title of “Technical Community Development Coordinator”. It was meant to be an interim title for use while the job was being defined. While it does have some nifty features — it’s the longest title in the company and abbreviates to [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Jul
27
2006
My New Title: Technical Evangelist
Jul
27
2006
Gentrification with Justice
One of the first results of a Google image search for “gentrification”.
Gideon Strauss points to an article in ByFaith Online (”The Web Magazine of the Presbyterian Church in America”) titled Gentrification with Justice. An excerpt (with one bit of emphasis on my part):
I have now seen first hand (yes, inadvertently participated [...]
Jul
27
2006
Karaoke Copyright Takedown
In today’s news (National Post / Toronto Sun / Marketnews.ca), there are reports that copyright-related arrests were made at two karaoke bars in the Accordion City area. Here’s a snippet from the National Post story:
Staff at two Greater Toronto karaoke bars have been charged with copyright offences as part of an RCMP crackdown on illegal [...]
Jul
26
2006
Blood, Sweat and Tea
Here’s something I’d been meaning to blog for a while now: Tom Reynolds, a Blogware user whom I met through blogging, has got a book coming out titled Blood, Sweat and Tea. It’s based on his blog, Random Acts of Reality, which chronicles his experiences as an ambluance driver in the London Ambulance Service.
Tom’s [...]
Jul
26
2006
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
In The Onion article titled Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence: “At 750 years, the U.S. is by far the world’s oldest surviving democracy, and is certainly deserving of our recognition,” [Wikipedia founder Jimmy] Wales said. “According to our database, that’s 212 years older than the Eiffel Tower, 347 years older than the earliest-known [...]
Jul
26
2006
Blogging with the Whales
Over at the internet marketing blog One Degree, Accordion City-based online business guru Bill Sweetman writes about how a non-computer, non-tech, non-internet business is making use of a corporate blog. The article, titled Blogging with the Whales, covers the blog run by a New Brunswick company that offers whale-watching cruises. Bill writes:
The blog [...]
Jul
26
2006
Happy Worm-a-Versary!
Today, July 26th, is an anniversary for two men who are infamous for unleashing their worms upon an unsuspecting world. Thanks to Dave “Dave’s Picks” Polaschek and his blog for the reminder!
Robert Tappan Morris Jr.
First, it’s the anniversary of the indictment of Robert Tappan Morris. Those of us who make a living off the internet [...]
Jul
25
2006
I’m Quiz Kid Ken Jennings and I Have a Lot of Tough Love to Give
Ken Jennings, the winningest contestant on Jeopardy!, gaves the show a little tough love on his blog, saying that it needs a serious reworking.
For starters, it just doesn’t mesh with his meat-and-potatoes, guy-from-Utah values:
First up, the categories. Maybe when Art Fleming was alive, America just couldn’t get enough clues about “Botany” and “Ballet” and “The [...]
Jul
25
2006
The Knack and Persistence
This entry appears in Tucows Farm. I wrote it after getting a few email responses to an entry titled Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats, which referenced a paper covering a study whose results suggested that programming was at least in part an innate skill — that is, some people just can’t be taught to [...]
