Monthly Archives July 2004

Awwww!

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

(from Candice)

canadian commons

Neat — the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic of the University of Ottawa is producing versions of the Creative Commons licenses compatible with Canadian copyright law. A lot of the differences are minor but I’m going to take their word that they are probably important.

I think I’ll finally get around to labeling the [...]

Card stores

For the first time in a very long time, I found myself today in a mall
greeting-card store (two, really — Carlton Cards and Hallmark).
Usually Candice and I go to Paper-Papier, a paper store in the
Byward Market, which has all sorts of interesting plain and craft-type
greeting cards, most blank inside.

I quickly remembered why I go to [...]

Choosing RBLs

Antispam-type people, I want your opinions on RBLs. I’ve given up on
Bayesian filtering companywide, and content-only filtering just doesn’t
cut it anymore, but I want to avoid putting RBL blocking or tagging in
place that I’m going to regret.

Basically I’m after low false positives and negatives, with an emphasis
on low false positives for the blocking ones and [...]

Little computer!

On the recommendation of
Gordon Rowell at work, I swung by Refurb Computers today to pick
up a little mini-desktop box to use as a mp3-playing stereo component. I
left with the Gateway E1400 pictured to the right (click to enlarge),
3.5″ tall by 11.5″ wide by 14″ deep. It’s a pretty good deal: 633 MHz
Celeron, 256MB/20GB, onboard i810 [...]

AT&… something or other.

What would you do if you wanted a telegraph installed in your home? Call Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph, of course.

At least there’s no editorial bias, but

Microsoft’s Slate webmag encourages you to abandon IE for Firefox.