Friday, August 29th, 2008
While at An Event Apart SF, I went to look up something on the Victoria Better Web Posse’s site, and was saddened to find that it’s offline, “Address Not Found”. I’ve emailed Gels Saby hoping to find out the status, but haven’t heard back from her yet.
Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn on the Victoria Linux User Group [...]
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Peter Nowak wrote a CBC article yesterday about Quebec being sued for not accepting software contract bids:
“Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused…”
The article has the tantalizing title of [...]
Also filed in Open Source
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Tagged Canonical, ibm, Novel, Open Source, oracle, Peter Nowak, Public, Public Interest, RedHat, Sun, Ubuntu
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Drupal Camp Victoria is happening all day Friday and Saturday Sept 5th and 6th. It’s hosted by North Studio at their training center, 301-771 Vernon Ave (plaza just coming into Victoria, near Save-On-Foods, Walmart).
It’s a free event, and if your work is any way related to the web, you will be missing out if [...]
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Stuff White People Like is coming to Victoria!
Victoria is one of the stops on the book tour. Get your copy of the fresh minted book signed by Christian Lander at Chapters on August 10th, 2:00 p.m. He’ll be in Vancouver a couple of days later.
An article about my friend Joshua McKenty’s BountyUp is in today’s Times Colonist.
Bounty Up is a service to collect online donations for a project, like the wildly successful MyFreeImplants.com, but for the rest of us — I wish I was kiddin’ about that site’s success. The tagline on BountyUp is “Ask for what you want, [...]
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
The first Victoria DemoCamp is tomorrow 5.30pm, Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 @ 834 Johnson St. (Juliet Living Demo Space, a.k.a. the OLD peacock billiards place). DemoCamp is basically a hipster geek term for people coming together to give demonstrates (or presentations) (practice) on technology products or services (only needs to be loosely related to tech).
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
My TD Canada Trust cheque looks like:
*NNN* *TTTTT*YYY* BBBB*AAAAAAA*
NNN = Cheque #
TTTTT = Transit #
YYY = Instituition
BBBB AAAAAAA = is the account #
What can be a little confusing about these numbers is that BBBB in the account # is probably the branch, but sometimes the transit # is referred to the branch. The BBBB may [...]
Friday, August 31st, 2007
My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!
Also filed in PC, Victoria
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Tagged burning plastic, fan, ibm, laptop, lenovo, Linux, microsoft windows, PC, personal computing, repair, service, t42p, thinkpad, Ubuntu, windows
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“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”
Also filed in Flock, Victoria, Work
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Tagged Brij Charan, Bryan Hudson, Chris Campbell, Clayton Stark, Ishika Paul, Jacky Zheng, Joshua McKenty, Justin Louie, Len Kirby, Leon Carl, Marcus Redivo, Mark Lise, Raj Paul, Richard Phan, Rick Tessner, Ryan Tomaselli, Steve Bengston
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I knew Canada had a bad joke of democracy when it comes to our senate being unelected and unrepresentative.