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The Conservative party’s take on Copyright reform, Bill C-32, is working its way through the parliamentary process. The last two copyright reform bills in Canada have died on the order paper, so it’s about time we revisit copyright as the Conservative government looks long in the tooth. The Bill C-32 Legislative Committee has invited Canadians… Continue Reading Speak out on Copyright in Canada

While my wife was getting a valuable two hours of sleep before she was woken with contractions signaling the birth of our first born child 19 hours later, I was not quite tired enough to sleep. UnknowingIy missing out on my last chance to sleep for a while, I was typing away at a PHP… Continue Reading PHP script to download files from GMail

If you use a Mac, and you haven’t had a chance to install it yet, I’d like to recommend AppleJack. AppleJack is a free open source tool that automates the basic UNIX tools are a few other basic maintenance tasks for OSX. All things someone comfortable with the command line could do themselves, but AppleJack… Continue Reading AppleJack free disk maintenance tool for OSX

My web site http://passnerd.com has had some recent updates. Here’s what to look for: There’s a new complexity picker. The site has got even more light-weight and should load even faster than before. There is a new mobile version ( preview it at http://passnerd.com/?mobile ) You can enter the password length into the URL, for… Continue Reading Updates from the PassNerd

Apple always succeeds when they make it feel like their technology enables the best of human emotions and experience. It’s really hard to watch this video and at the end of the 60 seconds not feel like you need to buy the phone to feel this way again….. then you realize that you’d have to… Continue Reading FaceTime Ads