Author Archives: Dan Siemon

The end of Google Wave

Posted on 2010-08-22 by Dan Siemon

On May 28th, 2009 Google announced Wave to much fanfare. Wave was going to change the world by merging blogs, wikis and IM and finally replacing email as the digital world’s main collaborative tool. On August 4th, 2010, 14 months … Continue reading →

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Blackberry Torch

Posted on 2010-08-04 by Dan Siemon

I really hope that RIM has a successful device in the Torch and Blackberry OS 6. It would be such a sad story for technology in Canada if RIM continues to ride the slow train to irrelevance. That said, what … Continue reading →

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Next is Now

Posted on 2010-07-20 by Dan Siemon

Just stumbled on this video created by Rogers. One of a few good quotes: “10 years ago it took 72 hours to download Godfather… – Today it takes 10 minutes – It still takes 3 hours to watch”

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ChangeCamp London

Posted on 2010-06-20 by Dan Siemon

Thanks to the organizers and participants involved with ChangeCamp London yesterday. It was amazing to see such a strong turnout of people interested in making London better. I hope everyone got as much out of it as I did. For … Continue reading →

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WordPress 3.0

Posted on 2010-06-17 by Dan Siemon

Upgraded to WordPress 3.0. There’s been so many changes to the themes in recent versions that I think I’ll be running the new default theme at least until I get some time to update my own. The new theme looks … Continue reading →

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Bank websites

Posted on 2010-06-13 by Dan Siemon

It boggles my mind that the banks haven’t figured out how to make their websites more useful than they are. Why are these sites limited to online versions of bank tellers? Here’s what I want my bank’s site to provide: … Continue reading →

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Books

Posted on 2010-06-13 by Dan Siemon

I recently finished reading a couple books that are worth mentioning. The first is Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother. Don’t let the teen categorization discourage you, this is a book any technology geek will love. The best one line summary I … Continue reading →

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Django/mod_wsgi on Fedora 12

Posted on 2010-06-13 by Dan Siemon

I recently deployed a Django application with mod_wsgi on my server which runs Fedora 12. Since this required a bit more configuration than a standard Apache virtual host I thought it might be useful to document the configuration for others. … Continue reading →

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New OpenPGP key

Posted on 2010-06-13 by Dan Siemon

For the two people that care I’m migrating to a new OpenPGP key. I created the old key way back in 2001 so it is time to move to a longer RSA key instead of DSA. The new key also … Continue reading →

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Python tutorial and advice

Posted on 2010-04-27 by Dan Siemon

A friend at work recently pointed me to a Python tutorial called Learn Python the Hard Way. It’s very basic but the later part has a little opinion chapter titled Advice from an old programmer which is worth taking the … Continue reading →

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