Archive for August, 2006
Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
Victorianism
I am in Victoria, and will be for another day. Butchart Gardens costs $23/person in the high season. It may be worth it. I shall say it is the most impressive garden I have ever experienced. There’s not much more to discuss about it, except that we took two hours to tour it in a […]
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Barcamp thoughts
Barcamp was awesome. Massive knowledge transfer. Half the workshops I attended were great, and I missed many more that I wanted to check out. I frightened DB by saying that I liked it so much I would attend one every month if they would organize it. Even the t-shirt was nice. Quick notes: Peter van […]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Great moments in Bar Camp
Me (this is paraphrased), talking to Beau Hartshorne about his day job, the web-based image editor Snipshot: “So, I guess you guys benefit from the sort of revision and versioning advantages that Paul Graham talks about?” “Yes. So you must know that Paul Graham invested in our company? He’s a really nice guy, by the […]
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Saturday, August 26th, 2006
Notes towards a grumpy Barcamp presentation II: revision
“Ninety percent of everything is crud” – Sturgeon’s RevelationWith that principle in mind, I want to avoid burying all the things we hold dear (web 2.0, flickr, podcasting, bloggery, Darren Barefoot) just because 90% of them suck. If the suck rate was only 90%, we’d be doing great! I want to get at the inherent […]
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
At Bar Camp
Nerd fun: playing Mario Kart on some DSen. Yeah, we’re productive.
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Friday, August 25th, 2006
By special request: Imagining a CBC-Free Canada
Yay! I plan to use my share of the returned tax dollars to buy a video game. Well, more seriously, Darren Barefoot asked a serious question: he was wondering how Conservatives (which, rightly or wrongly, he seems to be imagining as opponents of the CBC in general. Well, I guess I’ll do: pretty definitively conservative […]
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Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Remembering Vuvuc
Vuvuc the Cat, on its window sill Vuvuc began as a star-crossed Scrabble play, met us as a cat in the middle of its life, and died today after a sudden illness. When we were both avidly playing Scrabble, The Lovely One, in a desperate end-of-rack fit, played “VUVUC” on the board and said if […]
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Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
An unusual vacation schedule
I only expected to do one of these things during my vacation… Morning: have beloved cat put down, because it is suffering acutely and in manifold ways from what was most likely a burst tumor. The cat was pretty much normal-looking on Sunday. Here’s an irony: the cat has been an insulin-dependent diabetic for the […]
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
I repeat: this is not just a link-blog
We interrupt our usual intermittent spurts of original content to link to something for you. It’s an interview with “Witesock,” a sports-sock collector. Now that’s super. This guy has a wildly specialized collection of “several hundred” socks. He’s interviewed on the wonderfully obsessive Uni Watch blog. But that’s not the fun part… UW: Now, do […]
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
Notes towards a grumpy Barcamp presentation
I’m going to Barcamp Vancouver next weekend, and I need some advice on my presentation, if anyone cares to give it. The work in progress is exposed below. “Ninety percent of everything is crud” – Sturgeon’s RevelationWith that principle in mind, I want to avoid burying all the things we hold dear (web 2.0, flickr, […]