bopuc/weblog

My post on "it's not about you" the other day sparked a good thread of debate which culminated in Hugh staking some key points, and Karl responding very clearly and directly, and in my opinion, right on the money, so...

While eating my dinner (yes at my desk), I decided to spark up my old RSS aggregator and read some feeds I hadn't checked up on in a while. It seems some months ago Maciej escaped the binds of Manhattan...

Joe Clark drops one hell of a rant about everything from web acessibility, web 2.0 and stooped conferences. And really, the Pied Piper of Ajax, Jason Fried, is principally responsible for this mess. I’m getting a bit tired of having...

(somebody's gonna kick me for this one) Rebecca just pointed out something very interesting. Google Finance is aggregating weblog posts with companies' stock market ticker symbols... and displaying the results inline with company profile screens. For example, Secure Computing (SCUR)....

Ed Bilodeau mentioned he just missed his 8th anniversary of "personal publishing on the web". An excerpt from his first post, dated March 12th, 1998 (notice the dated space URI): Spend any time at all surfing the Net, and you...

Before leaving for Tokyo, I mentioned how I was looking forward to getting back to Montreal for the summer. More specifically, what I told a few people in person was I was particularly looking forward to watching, and perhaps being...

At least not the way you may be led to believe it is. With apologies to Stewart and Caterina, the whole Flickr team and all the folks involved in this "Web 2.0" stuff, who, for the most part, are truly...

Joi's new MacBook Pro arrived at the lab sometime this weekend and this afternoon I got permission to crack it open and play... I mean... test. :D Plugged it in, connected the 24" LCD screen, my Firewire drive, loaded up...

from the excellent excellent Banksy "Wall and Piece" book: People abuse you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They...

I've been meaning to write about David Suzuki for a long time, and haven't yet mainly because I have not done what I told myself I'd do first: actually get acquainted with "his stuff", knowing it would affect my life...

Don't have the time to expound on this seminal text more profoundly at the moment but wanted to point it out. First a salient quote: Indifference to objective truth is encouraged by the sealing-off of one part of the world...

Just when I had overcome the jetlag... Between 2am trans-global conference calls between Tokyo, New York, Boston and London; 14 hour time-shift work schedules; and hanging out with Joi: I don't know, as they say, if I am coming or...

on lies: a necessary and healthy feature of sociality is lying. Lying is a feature, not a bug. The great dream of a utopian society is a system where lies are not necessary; the great nightmare, one where it...

Aright, I'm off to Tokyo. Cya! ;)...

I'm in a "everything's new again!" state of mind tonight... So this is what my email/calendar desktop looks like. I run virtual desktops (see the strip on the bottom right? on a work day all of those boxes are...

I am doing a giant cleanup of my apartment before I leave so that my house-sitter, Steven, doesn't feel like he's living in my junk, but also it's just a good opportunity to do so, and get rid of a...

Adriaan quietly announced his new desktop aggregator application for Mac, called "endo". It's a quite novel approach to aggregation, UI wise. Lots of powerful "Smart Filtering" possibilities, and customization. Wicked fast, Universal build (for PPC and Intel Macs) and...

I just changed my flight and booked a hotel room in NYC for tomorrow night. I've got a 9:00am meeting in Times Square and had a flight leaving Montreal at 6:00am. That means being at Dorval at 4:30am. That means...

Brandon Fuller discovered a bug in MT and provided the fix for it. If you are a client of mine or someone I am in the habit of helping out with their MT weblog, the patch has been applied. You...

So I've been using Scott's excellent MailTags Mail plugin for a few weeks (the beta I am using should be released this week!) and it's gotten me thinking more than usual about mail and file management etc. Here are a...

I know you know how this feels. (thx Stevey. Everyone, go see Stevey, he blogs neat stuff! Like robot sharks with frikkin' lazers! And that guy who makes ski area maps!)...