Occasional musings from a Left-coast Canadian ExPat in Oxford.
The blog is undergoing a long-overdue upgrade to the newest version of WordPress. If you experience any weirdness over the next couple days, that’s probably why. The management thanks you for your patience. Update: upgrade complete, and spanky new design now showing! It’s worth clicking through to my actual site to see the loveliness that … Continue reading Boring Site Admin Note
(Already crossposted to facebook – with a couple comments there.) So I went to BarCamp Vancouver 07 last Saturday. I was… underwhelmed. Having never attended a BarCamp before, I was pretty excited, since everyone I know who has gone has always spoken quite highly of them. But I just wasn’t feeling the love and/or usefulness. … Continue reading Vancouver BarCamp07
So I wrote that I didn’t think facebook was for me. And then I figured I’d try it out before making a judgment one way or the other. Thus far, I am completely unsurprised and underwhelmed. All sorts of people from various past jobs, schools and affiliations are on there, and I have somewhere in … Continue reading Facebook, Redux
Generally I’m a bit skeptical when it comes to new gadgets. They usually come trussed up in pretty boxes, covered in promises that they’ll revolutionize my life and I’ll forget what ever came before them. So far only my TiVo has ever lived up to that promise. And if you know TiVo, you’ll know that … Continue reading Surrounded
Of Facebook. I signed up. No promises that I’ll stay, but you can go ahead and attempt to find me and add me to your various networks. So far I find the site clunky and annoying. Perhaps it can change my mind. UPDATE (40 minutes in). Complaint the first: For various reasons, I use a … Continue reading One Week
I am still trying to resist the Facecrackbook. The invites keep flooding in. Mostly I am afeared of pictures from my youth, fueled by young hubris and much liquor, being tagged with my name once I’m there. And some things are just best left in the past. But other than that – while I’m feeling … Continue reading Crumbling
Thank you for being environmentally responsible Originally uploaded by peechie. It’s been a long while since I’ve purchased inkjet cartridges. I don’t print all that much and they only end up needing replacement every 12-16 months. In the past, it’s actually been cheaper to buy a new printer (since I generally buy the cheap, crappy … Continue reading Greenery