Mostly Ignored
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Twitter Updates for November 2010
My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: The Gandharvas (11), Blonde Redhead (1) & The Court & Spark (1) #mm http://bit.ly/8YhquK # SunChips bag not too noisy for Canadians: “Once again, Canada proves itself smarter than the ‘land of liberty.’” http://bit.ly/bs1O0W # A Patent Mistake? DOJ’s Reversal on Genes Raising Questions – Law Blog – WSJ…
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The Bad Samaritan Chronicles – Episode 1
I was out for a coffee over the lunch hour with a friend of mine. On the walk back to my office I noticed the parking patrol was on the prowl. The officer slowed, came to a stop, then started backing slowly to put himself in line with a black SUV next to an expired…
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Who am I?
Occasionally, in times of stress I think back to the man I once was, recall the activities of his daily life, and think, “I’m a has-been.” Fortunately, I soon remember that in terms of my present-day accomplishments, that person of my past life is also a “never-was.”
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Lubuntu lost your Windows install?
Recently, I installed Lubuntu 10.10 as a dual boot to Windows 7 on my laptop as a replacement to Linux Mint. Everything seemed to go well until I rebooted and noticed that Windows 7 was no longer listed in the menu options of the GRUB boot manager. Windows wasn’t gone, but GRUB had failed to detect…
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Exaile on Lubuntu
Recently I switched my Dell B130 laptop from Linux Mint 10 to Lubuntu 10.10 because the bloat/drag was really making it a pain to use. Lubuntu’s LXDE desktop is very snappy and the default applications are, as you would expect, lean on resources. My need for good Audioscrobbler support and streaming audio left me dissatisfied with…
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The Truth About Placebos
“It is a reality of our time that the same companies promoting health care products are also largely responsible for underwriting their research.” An excerpt from The Industry of Illness in US Health Care: Why Privatization Is Inefficient – Part 3 The following ad didn’t really fit the tone of my “scholarly” discussion quoted above,…
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On geograhic content restriction
I’ve seen some amazing touring exhibits of Egyptian and Roman antiquities. What if the geographic restrictions that corporations use to limit the viewing of online content were applied to physical art? This piece by Paul Mutant puts it in perspective.
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Firefox wants… a day off?
I LOLed my dog. It was actually one of my kids who asked me if he was a Firefox.
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Phase IV – Ottawa/Gatineau Time Warp
IMAG0047, originally uploaded by toddlyons. I love the architecture of Place du Portage IV. It’s still so unabashedly 1970s; evocative of a time and place out of childhood where Ottawa was remote and near-mythical. I never believed as a child, nor as a young adult, that I would ever live or work in the National…