Monthly Archives: February 2008

Flickr Photo’s used in On-Line Guide.

By Ian | February 23, 2008

One of my Flickr photo’s from my Oct 2007 trip to San Francisco has been used (as per Creative Commons with Attribution) in Schmap Napa Valley Guide, and in particular the photo of the Gundlach-Bundschu Winery.
They also used one of my Flickr photos of Toronto’s Bloor Street West’s Ukrainian Festival in their Toronto Guide
Schmap is [...]

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Links for February 21th : 6 Principles for new; Leaks; Stealling Silicon Valley; Daves Venti idea

By Ian | February 22, 2008

This is what is Weird Wonderful

Six Principles for Making New Things – find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
- Startup web work paulgraham paul.graham
Wikileaks – Wikileaks (the [...]

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Back from Utah, 22 hours of flying displeasure later

By Ian | February 18, 2008

I still recovering from a good week of skiing in Utah, but its not the skiing I’m recovering from as much as the long trip home.
Direct flying time from Toronto to Salt Lake City, Utah, is around 4 hours, if you can get a direct flight.
Our flight down to Salt Lake City proved to be [...]

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Weird Wonderful Web Links for February 8th

By Ian | February 8, 2008

I’m off for a week of skiing in Utah. Until then, take care of the net for me.

Where and when to use Ajax in your applications – Get rid of the refresh; doesn’t need to be real-time;Small changes can be big;Big changes can bring big difficulties; Unleash information; Ajax can save/ruin your site; Finding [...]

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Gung Hei Fat Choy for Chinese year 4706, Hello Rat!

By Ian | February 6, 2008

as we hit another Lunar New Year, in this case Year of the Rat/Mouse. (where’s my cheese? Probably somewhere under this 30 cm of snow!)

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Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform

By Ian | February 4, 2008

Via Michael Geist comes word that an fable in “Hill Times (a weekly newspaper for Ottawa’s “savvy political and government insider”) written by Michael Eisen (Microsoft Canada’s Chief Legal Officer) misleads in the service of the “Prentice Canadian DMCA” act it wants to get passed so as justify the digital locks (that don’t work) to [...]

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My 2008 extisp.icio.us

By Ian | February 3, 2008

extisp.icio.us 2008
generated by extisp.icio.us based on my Del.icio.us bookmarks, and added to the flickr extispicious pool
This is the 4th year I’ve done this.

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