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Monthly Archives: September 2004
Creative Commons Canada
Oh happy day. Creative Commons Canada is being officially launched in Ottawa today. This means that there are now versions of the Creative Commons licenses available that are tailored to Canadian copyright law. If you don’t know what the Creative … Continue reading
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Canadian murder statistics
Despite what the “always bad news first” nightly news programs may make you think murder rates were at a 30 year low in 2003. CTV: National homicide rate hits 30-year low in 2003 CBC: Canadian youth homicide rate rose in … Continue reading
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More Canadian copyright stuff
Michael Geist has written another great piece encouraging balanced copyright reform. I still find it surprising that the Liberal led Heritage committee is so biased towards the content creators. Content creation groups have apparently out numbered content user groups at … Continue reading
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Left and Right political views via Amazon
Valdis Krebs has found a really interesting use of some Amazon book data. Amazon suggests books based on “People who bought this book also bought X”. Valdis uses this information to graph the left and right of the American political … Continue reading
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Copyright in the digital world
In Copyright vs. The Laws of Physics the author discusses copying in the digital world. In reality, every action on digital information involves copying. This is the fundamental reason why copy protection on computers is so hard. Lawrence Lessig touches … Continue reading
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The Twelve Networking Truths
I stumbled on a great RFC today. It’s worth the short read. The Twelve Networking Truths
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CBC and Internet streaming
George Farris alerted me to a change in the way CBC does radio streaming on the Internet. Previously, CBC supported QuickTime, Real Player and Windows Media player. As of August 30, 2004 they only support Windows Media player. CBC has … Continue reading
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Queueing
I little while ago I asked a friend to proof read my LQL project page. We ended up in a discussion about the proper spelling of Queueing. Bob blogged about this conversation over here so I won’t bother repeating the … Continue reading
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Bell Canada call answer tip.
I can’t believe I didn’t realize this before. If you have Bell Canada‘s call answer service you can speak to the person who is leaving a message by pressing the flash or link button on your phone. This makes using … Continue reading
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UPSs and testing
Today, I decided it was time to test my UPSs out to make sure they were still functioning properly. Like any well designed product UPSs just work. They fade into the background which makes it easy to forget that they … Continue reading
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