From a personal standpoint, holidays such as Thanksgiving have always confused me. After all, it is an arbitrary holiday that’s slotted in a more or less convenient spot to either placate the plebs, or encourage copious amounts of consumer spending. I have no problems with this as I enjoy both placation and consumer spending. What confuses me most ( Read more... )

Perhaps it’s simply a reflection of myself, but it seems like everyone I see is continually exhausted. Let me clarify myself. I know I’m exhausted and have good reason for it. I just never seem to stop doing something, and there’s a perfectly good explanation for that. [I'm crazy.]

I think it’s safe to assume that I’m crazier than most people, and ( Read more... )

Wow…it’s been over half a year since I last blogged here. Seems like the months have come and gone as fast as the planes that fly our skies.

A lot has happened since the beginning of the year, and I feel like I’m slowly continuing my upward spiral into insanity…of the good variety. Let me share some of them with you.

• I picked up an iPad. It’s ( Read more... )

Those whom I speak with on a regular basis knows that I care pretty deeply about my privacy. In fact, much of what I’ve been doing (as well as much of my recent behaviour) has been driven by my current stance about online privacy.

And what is this ’stance’, you may ask…

Well, it’s simple. It’s also been reiterated time and again by those more well- ( Read more... )

It’s no secret. I was a pirate. Not the kind who roamed the Seven Seas in search of loot to pillage. No Sir. I’m a new age pirate. I dive deep into the vastgness of the net in an endless pursuit of data. Yes, my fellow friends. I was once a software and data pirate.

But no longer. I have hung up my digital cutlass and have lain fallow my bandwidth ( Read more... )

I received a mass distribution email from Charlie Angus, MP [NDP, Digital Affairs Critic] regarding the need for ACTA transparency and public consultation on the subject. If you haven’t heard much about ACTA, it’s an international treaty on copyright that is being negotiated in secret with little or no oversight into the issue. I encourage you all ( Read more... )

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2010 is here, and apparently, it hails the beginning of a new decade. With it, the new year brings renewed hope and revitalized vigor to tackle the problems and challenges this year will present. It will be exciting times and I look forward to it.

Besides, these few nascent hours of 2010 are already tons better than most of the previous year.

Let ( Read more... )

It’s hard to think about this past year without drawing up feelings of pain, anger, tiredness, and sorrow. It’s been a rough year; rougher for some, granted, but this year has certainly hit me pretty hard. The only way for me to describe it is that my world simply burned. To a crisp. It’s an odd, but not overly negative feeling, and I’ll let you ( Read more... )

As much as I want to pepper this post with my usual [lack of] wit, I’m pretty tired. I didn’t get much sleep last night after the Wedding and Reception. Let’s just say that the wedding was delightful and wonderful, and the reception that followed was tasteful, funny, and all-round entertaining.

Congrats to Liz and Chris. My best wishes to both of ( Read more... )