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True story

17 Sep 2009

As you know, I’m going to be moving back to Calgary in December. The exact timing for that is still being determined, but let’s just go with the broad stroke: we have a lot of stuff that needs to be done as part of moving back.

One of those things — rather obvious to anyone who’s ever been responsible for their own utilities — is making sure that the electricity, gas, and water are put back in our names. And there’s no time like the present to do the research about services, plans, companies, and so forth.

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20 years of blogging (and Post #1,000)

1 Jul 2009

Well, okay, not so much “blogging” as journaling, but most of them are now online for everyone to ignore.

Twenty years ago, I got to do something that (comparatively) very few westerners got to do, and will never get to do again: I went behind the Iron Curtain. I visited the (former) Soviet Union. Believe it or not, the journey was a field trip, organised by one of the teachers in my school board. We had to do prerequisite classwork and had to write two length reports, all of which added up to academic credits.

And we had to write a journal.

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A few of my favourite tweets

10 Feb 2009

Blog or Die

31 Oct 2008

There’s been a lot of talk lately about people saying you shouldn’t blog anymore. The arguments seem to break into two categories:

Don’t blog because you probably have nothing interesting to say and no-one will read it
Don’t blog because it’s passé and there’s better places to go

The problem with these arguments is that they’re missing the big picture, and that’s presence. Namely, your presence (either your company or yourself) on the internet. (more…)

Web Analytics Porn

4 Jun 2008

So this morning, I’m scanning through my Twitter feeds on Twhirl, and I came across a rather interesting note by Dave Fleet, which said:

@cspenn planning to install it tonight. Waiting for the confirmation email. Long-winded installation process!

Things like that tend to pique my curiousity. I’m a curious person. So I decided to see what Christopher Penn had wrote about it. I quote:

OMFG. Just installed Woopra and it really is web analytics porn.

That just sooooo necessitated a look-see.

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ScribbleLive: Live Blogging Done Right!

22 May 2008

Late last month, I had the chance to go to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. On behalf of my co-workers, I blogged notes from the event to make sure that they had the benefit of getting the information in as much detail as could be effectively provided. (Of course, Scott Schiller out-did me on the day he was there, and recorded the audio on his MiniDisc system. But I digress.)

My major issue was the blogging. It’s tough to write down the notes, and ensure that they all get posted properly. WordPress lost connection at one point and I lost my notes. I was peeved, to say the least. Ideally, it would be blog each point as it came up. But that looks dumb in WordPress. And I knew of no other tool that did it well.

Until now…

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Web 2.0 Expo: Ontologies for the Internet

25 Apr 2008

Definitely not my strong point. But I wanted to go to this given all the working in tagging as of late.

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Web 2.0 Expo: Community Building: Good, Bad, and Ugly

23 Apr 2008

And the fun continues. Another morning at the conference, and another day of hard-core typing. I’m also up on Twitter now (le sigh), so you can get some notes as I go along.

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I’m on Twitter

23 Apr 2008

Sigh. I gave in. Communicating at this conference seems to require it.

Blogging woes will delay postings

23 Apr 2008

Just in case you’re following the threads from Web 2.0 Expo, they’re gonna be a little delayed today, folks.

First of all, I had my Firefox suddenly kak out and took all my notes from the first session with it. Furious typing in TextPad has restored many of them, but the fine details are largely gone. Sorry about that.

Also, the net connections here are way underpowered given the number of people connected at any minute. At least 80% of attendees have a laptop, iPhone, or other wireless device and are bringing the connections to mere blubbering masses of hardware. (And they’ve got the big ones here, too.) I also think the main pipe is about three times too small. Hence why the Flickr feed ain’t got much in it right now.

Also, my camera battery is about dead. Not sure how that happened — it was fine when I got up this morning. Probably all that wireless connectivity time (most it failing to connect) killed it. I’ll post pix when I get back to the hotel at lunch.