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I presented at the Ontario University Computing Conference (OUCC) this week. The presentation went well and I had a good balance of keener’s and skeptics in the crowd. The bad news is my plan A and plan B for recording the presentation for a future podcast both failed – so we’ll have to figure out… Continue Reading OUCC 2006

Briefly, here’s the things I wanted to write more about but it never got past that: The locals in Caledonia protesting about the Six Nations protesters remind me of the townspeople of Springfield. TV is so much better without comercials and viewed on your schedule. Thank you MythTV. Not only is “My Name is Earl”… Continue Reading Nothing to blog about

Formally named DTV and formally only on the Mac, the new version of “Democracy” is ready for both Windows and Mac users. Democracy is a an open source attempt at an internet television. It subscribes to RSS feeds and downloads the enclosed files, stores them and allows you to view them. Unlike iTunes, this tool… Continue Reading Democracy TV

DISTRICT: St. Catharines Rick Dykstra CON 21668 37.46% X Walt Lastewka LIB 21424 37.04% Jeff Burch NDP 11849 20.48% A year ago I called Walt Lastewka’s office and asked him to vote for gay marriage. The person working the phone assured me that St. Catharines was on the right of that issue. I’ll admit to… Continue Reading Vote Sucessfully Split

A student journalist at the U of T asked Jack Layton that if he can’t form a government should his supporters vote for the lesser of two evils? Layton’s response was “Stop voting for evil!” It looks like Monday will bring a conservative government because Liberal arrogance, inaction and corruption have caught up with it.… Continue Reading Stop voting for evil