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 [...]
Category Archives: Canada
Victoria’s Better Web Posse Disbanded?
August 29, 2008 – 2:53 pm
Quebec’s Anti- Open Source Policy
August 28, 2008 – 10:36 am
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 [...]
Stuff White Victoria People Like
July 30, 2008 – 8:44 pm
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.
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BountyUp Media Coverage
July 21, 2008 – 1:38 pm
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, [...]
democamp Victoria
April 2, 2008 – 4:41 pm
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).
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What do the numbers at the bottom of a Canadian cheque mean?
September 5, 2007 – 1:20 pm
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 [...]
“Fan error”
August 31, 2007 – 4:50 pm
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!
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Mercurial No More
July 17, 2007 – 6:09 pm
“32 of your friends joined the (FaceBook) group ex-Mercs.”
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Call It Senate or Seanad, But Don’t Call It Democracy
July 3, 2007 – 3:05 pm
I knew Canada had a bad joke of democracy when it comes to our senate being unelected and unrepresentative. (more…)