… and people need to park them somewhere. The University of Victoria has plans to build a $75M sports centre; Saanich residents are all over the idea and don’t seem to mind that they weren’t consulted on that. They are instead livid about the parkade that UVic plans to build in order to serve the [...]
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Tech-tack-toe
September 16, 2011
After much talking about doing a podcast, Mike and I finally sat down on Monday night and recorded our “pilot episode” — of course, I had not counted the two we’d done long ago (including “Weasels,” recorded in 2006) — so now I am considering this our “reboot” series. In Episode 0.5 we discuss the state [...]
Pee Ess Effing Three
August 9, 2011
If I read this in a novel or saw it in a movie I would say, “No way. Forget it. No way did that all happen.” I swear to you, though, that all of this happened. This is how we spent our Sunday evening… A few weeks ago, our PS3 — the hub of our [...]
House fires and blank slates
August 7, 2011
One of my friends likes to say, “Nothing like a house fire to ease into simplifying.” Reading a book about clutter-busting and also finding something I printed about clutter, I find similar ideas but with fewer flames. Basically, there’s something empowering about a blank slate. As you may have guessed, we are once again trying [...]
No Sympathy Here
June 24, 2011
Unless you were out of the country, you probably heard about the riots following game 7 of the Stanley Cup in Vancouver. A handfull of asshats did a lot of damage and inflicted injuries while a few SkyTrain cars worth of onlookers captured every moment from every angle on camera. Within an hour, multiple sites [...]
Copyright or not?
May 4, 2011
Consider this photo: It shows US President Barack Obama editing the address he gave on Sunday night. It’s part of The Whitehouse Flickr stream. If you view it on Flickr, one can plainly see in the right sidebar under “License,” that this is a United States Government Work, preceded by an open circle often used [...]
Confounded Shaw Part Deux
April 26, 2011
When the issue of UBB first hit the fan, I nearly lost it. When it looked like it was going to go through, I started actually reading CRTC rulings. And then it quietly went away. But, I know Shaw better, and knew it would be back. And now it is. Last month, I logged into [...]
Flotsam & Jetsam Podcast Episode 5
March 29, 2011
Here’s my latest rambling post — this time about the political landscape in Canada. Flotsam-Jetsam-5 (Wow. When that plugin said “minimalist” they meant it! Haiku Minimalist audio player plugin) Music in the background is Ocean Shores by Kelley Vice, part of the Community Audio collection on the Internet Archive.
Info-bleed
February 28, 2011
In a span of roughly 6 months, I have received at least 5 email messages at my gmail account intended for someone else. It happens, right? But how would you feel if you knew it was a law firm who was inadvertently sharing client info with a complete stranger? I felt nauseous at the thought [...]
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One Local’s Heresy
Full disclosure, that local is me. What’s my heresy? That I am not all that sad about the decline in tourism in recent years. I am a little sad that Victoria has yet to figure out it’s next move. I’d argue that we should embrace the advanced technology industry which already generates more for the region [...]
Tags: industry, tourism
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