Happy Canada Day!
Time passes, and I've posted a set of photos, including one of yours truly. Above photo by Stephen Rees.
Armed police to make sure we all pay our two dollars and a quarter, or the hundred and seventy five buck fine if we don't. What a stupid and dangerous idea.
Time passes, and I've posted a set of photos, including one of yours truly. Above photo by Stephen Rees.
From John Gruber's first impressions of iPhone: “Booting: A cold boot takes about 20 seconds. (Sleep/wake is effectively instantaneous – far faster than any Mac.)”
From Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow:
I was even shown places they weren't supposed to show me by accident and had to delete a bunch of photos before I left the ship.
This morning, instead of working from home as I had promised, I ducked out to ride around my neighbourhood for a half hour before the deluge predicted by Claire Martin. A half an hour turned into an hour and a half, and took the route that I decided will be the route to work. Mostly downhill, and not scary downhill like Union which levels off just as it crosses with Boundary. And under the Second Narrows Bridge.
Monique links to the miniBookExpo for Bloggers, where you claim a book in exchange for sending in $3, and promising to write about the book within a month.
People are just asked to log the time they've worked, and others, accountants and directors, decide what is billable.
From Rob Cottingham and others, comes a link to the Vancity Bike Share experiment. The basic idea is that Vancity gives me a bike, I keep it for about 3 weeks, write about it on ChangeEverything.ca (and here, of course), then give it to someone else.
[A] motivation often voiced by contributors: they don't have the skills to write software for other people's use, but can make themselves useful through support and documentation.
building coalitions, canvassing neighborhoods, visiting members’ homes and organizing direct actions and public events.Sure doesn't sound like the long-range planning conservatives did 30 years ago.