April 2007 Archives
| Montreal / Technology

Crippled

Sometime while I was away this winter, IleSansFil, the Montreal free community wifi service, crippled all their hotspots, by disallowing any and all traffic without login. (Or so it seems, I've only tried at 4 or 5) The ISF service...


| Bits

Quiet

Not much to say at the moment. Busy as usual. All's well. Carry on. :)...


| WebBlogging / WebTech

I called it

Of totally no interest to anyone, and just of passing to myself, but I so called it. WordPress is inching towards Drupal, and Drupal towards WordPress. They will never meet or overlap of course (or maybe they will one day...


| Confession / Social / Technology

A place or a feeling?

Bruno throwing snowballs at me and TyOriginally uploaded by Shawna Nelles. Last night at Laïka, I had a brief conversation with Michael, founder of Ile Sans Fil and good friend, about various things, including how places are not just geographic...


| Culture

"It's all about taste"

New friend Patrick went on a fantastic tear about how fascinating Karl Lagerfeld is after I showed him The Sartorialist and we scrolled over his picture. The above video was a 2 minute promotional made to announce Lagerfeld's line...


| URLs / WebBlogging

Redez

After months of work, we finally launched the Global Voices Online redesign. This is just the beginning of many many more awesome things to come. Many thanks to all who helped! and congrats to the whole GV community....


| Culture

Just a band

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' "thou shalt give equal worth to tragedies that occur in non-english speaking countries as to those that occur in english speaking countries." (1:54 in)...


| Bits

Sir Richard Branson in Casino Royale

Noticed him and looked into it. Sure enough, it's Branson. In 2002 or so I did a mockup of a public access WiFi portal to be used by Virgin that I know he saw. Haw haw....


| NewsPundit

Who's uncivilized?

Call that humiliation? No hoods. No electric shocks. No beatings. These Iranians clearly are a very uncivilised bunch Terry Jones Saturday March 31, 2007 The Guardian I share the outrage expressed in the British press over the treatment of our...