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GeoURL (2.0) and Added to the Sidebar….

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As reported by Michael Geist, webcast video from the Sixth Annual TIP Conference:”Sound Bytes, Sound Rights: Canada at the Crossroads of Copyright Law” is now online (realpalyer .RAM format). Much more info on Boing Boing and previously here. Time to see what was said or not.

Category:CopyRight

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EE Times profiles Seaway Networks which Using intelligent packet preprocessing and hardware matching, Seaway’s Trident NCA2000-L7P adapter card scans for familiar byte patterns that signal the presence of a worm or virus on the prowl. The card can scan for up to 16,000 patterns at a data rate of 2 Gbits/second of its dual Gigabit Ethernet inputs.

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I’ve added a Blogroll (definition: a collection of links to other weblogs That I follow/steal from) via Bloglines (lower right) and a way to export my public Blogroll with OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) via Bloglines (upper right), plus a OPML badge icon thing () with credit to Dr. d2r (Diego Doval)

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River of Gods (ISBN:0743256700) by Ian Mcdonald, has got a thumbs up from SciFi Blog Big Dumb Object and Cory. It’s going on the WishList to read. Note that it’s available in Canada and the U.K. but not the USA? 2 sites for more would be: The SF Site & the Ian Mcdonald page.

categories:WishList/SciFi

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As might have been guessed from my lack of posting last week, ET and I were away last week skiing at Panorama British Columbia, about 2 hours west of Banff. The flight out was interesting, the Skiing was good, although they were lacking in the expected snow (predictably they have gotten more snow since we left, but Toronto?s had more!) and much fun was had.

We booked this trip thru Club SkiCan and the local SkiCan hosts Julia & James did an outstanding job letting us know what was going on and advocating for us when necessary. Thanks Guys!

The Panorama resort had seen some improvement, in particular the Quad chair to the Summit (a vast improvement over the old T-bar!), and the whole new Taynton Bowl runs.

The outstanding dining experience of the week belongs to the independently owned Early Grey Lodge, set menus (~$CND70 per person + liquor +tax), advance reservations a must, but well worth it.

We also did a day trip out to the relativity new Kicking Horse resort on Panorama?s Wednesday shuttle (see village guest services). Despite a very late departure (someone screwed up) we had a good time and enjoyed the challenging bowl runs and better snow.

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Via Cory we have “The LeCool guide to Barcelona” (Flash) an insiders guide to that city, which brings back many happy memories of last years (Nov 2003) trip to Spain, of which Barcelona was the best part. @ 8 Euro’s, I think this goes on the wishlist. (and I just got a email from the Spanish Airline Iberia about a 3 March 2005 re-launch of their site)

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@Sam’s Archive: Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

Category:SciFi/Humour/Things to do on a slow day

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Jeffrey Veen writes on Scrubbing Innovation into Interaction: Ajax, and links to a essay on Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications at Adaptive Path (where he is a Partner).

That’s Ajax as in “Asynchronous JavaScript + XML” (+XHTML+CSS+DOM) aka “XmlHttpRequest Object” as in Google Maps, Gmail, and other things Google. Thus the “The rise of the Weblication”. (now on SlashDot.)

Also (via) worthy of note is a Developer Shed article on Debugging in Javascript on the use of Venkman, Mozilla’s JavaScript Debugger (code named after Dr. Peter Venkman).

Category : XMLHTTPRequest/RichTextApps

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Via Boing Boing, Michael Geist gives his view of The University of Toronto hosted “Sound Bytes, Sound Rights: Canada at the Crossroads of Copyright Law” (as previously mentioned , unfortunately I was unable to attend (went sking)). (The hand out is worth a read (pdf)).

But, Joe Clark (toronto web accessibility guy) did go and has blogged his notes on the Conference (Here’s a quote :Sarmite Bulte: Exceptions are not the basis of good public policy. “The only time an exception is warranted is if there’s been a market failure.” ), and over at the Disssion area of Digital Copyright Canada, Russell McOrmond has some notes.

Again, the industry says “free market” but lobbiess for more taxpayer money and “copyright” reform amied at reducing consumers rights. Lets see if the Canada Federal budget (due this week) with extension of the CND$95 million (over 3 years) Canada Music Fund (which is due to expire this year).

Michael Geist’s talk “Copyright and the Internet: Is There a Canadian Way?” already online and hints that a webcast of the conferance may go online (soon).

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