Monthly Archives: November 2008

Climate Wars

Posted on 2008-11-16 by Dan Siemon

[Previous post on Climate Wars] For most people it is hard to get a sense of what climate change may mean to society and the world. So the world gets 2C hotter. The daily temperature fluctuates far more than this … Continue reading →

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Who owns ideas?

Posted on 2008-11-11 by Dan Siemon

Recently CBC’s excellent Ideas program ran a documentary on copyright entitled Who own’s ideas?. The episode provides a really nice overview of the issues and even includes a bit of history which is too often ignored in this debate. Both … Continue reading →

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A few good books

Posted on 2008-11-08 by Dan Siemon

Here are a few short reviews of some of the more interesting books I have read somewhat recently. Beyond the below I have also recently read Blink: The power of thinking without thinking and Here comes everybody. Both of these … Continue reading →

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Windows Azure

Posted on 2008-11-03 by Dan Siemon

Interesting overview of Microsoft’s foray into the cloud computing world. Windows Azure from a Developer’s Perspective

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Climate Wars

Posted on 2008-11-02 by Dan Siemon

A couple of years ago I attended a speech at UWO by Gwynne Dyer. As expected it was an interesting talk. One of things he mentioned was (paraphrasing) that he began to take climate change seriously when he realized that … Continue reading →

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