I downloaded and installed Dave Winer’s OPML application last night. It’s going to take a bit of getting used to, and to be honest I likely won’t use it much for blogging (although that might change), but I am interested in the outliner part of it. Anyhoo, I was able to quickly create a blog […]

In typically Canadian fashion, I was immediately blushing at Dave Winer’s comments about Canadian cities and Ottawa (I went to University for 7 years in our nation’s capital). Something about a Yank of any prominence commenting on something Canadian seems to garner attention from a lot of us up here. It’s just how most (I […]

Initially I was going to leave a comment on Kent Newsome’s post “More on Getting Heard“. However, one particular paragraph demanded a proper post. He writes,
So while I obviously enjoy writing, I want this site to be more than an online journal or a living Christmas letter for my extended family. I want it to […]

I’ve been fiddling with Pubsub searches and created a few search feeds there. When I add a search feed to Bloglines it shows the entry but the feed hardly ever updates. The one I’ve still got in there has updated twice in two weeks even though it’s updating much more frequently when I check at […]

Randy Charles Morin writes about A-list linking. Reading the comments there, it seems as if ‘writing interesting stuff’ is the key. Although I hasten to add that patience is another one. In my case I write because I enjoy it. Sure it’s doubly wonderful if more people read it, but I am satisfied if even […]

Dave Winer’s post about the EFF’s love-in with bloggers cites this podcast. For some strange reason I missed this one when it first came out. I listened to it on the way in to work this morning and the first thing that came to mind about Cory Doctorow’s demeanour was - what a rude immature […]

Just came across an article while procrastinating this morning: Structured Procrastination. The 10 year old article is by Stanford Professor John Perry. What wonderful karma. It’s about how most procrastinators actually do things to avoid doing other things and how to make that work for you. It’s not that I sit here and do nothing […]

Fresh on the heels of the Steve Ballmer interview on Channel 9 and the resulting flurry of opinion, check out Comic:The Innovidiot for an interesting rant on whether all this hubbub about innovation is missing the point when it comes to software development.

During the July 12, 2005 Geek News Central podcast Todd Cochrane spoke about the concern regarding inkjet print longevity as noted in a recent Engadget post. There is no mention of it in the Engadget article, but whether your printer uses dye-based or pigment-based ink makes a huge difference in print longevity. Two very useful […]

Thank you to Scoble for his link. Being an avid amateur photographer (I am avid about a lot of things and undoubtedly amateur at all of them) it has frustrated me to no end to see family members get the latest whiz-bang digital cameras and start snapping images and do absolutely nothing with them. No, […]