Turns out that Hasbro is suing the dudes who made Scrabulous, and our sturdy friend Facebook has taken the bend-over-and-smile measure of locking down the application from anyone in North America using it. That means if you go to play Scrabble(R) today you’re stuck using the version with the real wooden tiles stashed in [...]

The result of sending a letter with your concerns about copyright to your member of parliament and various other influential ministers in federal government is NOT that they listen to your concerns, but rather that they put you on their mailing list and send you propaganda and notifications of exactly how they are ignoring your [...]

It’s your buddy Brad, here. Remember me? You came knocking on my door earlier this evening and caught me (slightly) off guard. Truth be told I really never expected to hear from you, well, apart from that generic pre-recorded phone message last week and the little hanger with your photo for my front [...]

About five years ago when we were living in the urban sprawl of Vancouver our apartment was burglarized. We were suddenly very alone and vulnerable. It wasn’t the stuff, so much. It was rotten-to-the-core feeling of being helpless and insignificant. It was the sleepless nights. It was waking up at [...]

December 11
I have a headache from looking after Claire on my own for three hours while Karin went out to a function. She screamed most of the time. Claire, that is. It was either gas, or it was because I can’t provide fresh milk. Either way, not much I can do [...]

A couple people asked why I don’t upload more photos to Facebook, rather than making people click over to my gallery site. Here are my reasons, and I don’t think I need to justify any further than that:
1. Users. Facebook needs a password. My gallery is open. As much as I’d find [...]

As far as thinly veiled larks against big-business (read: recording industry)copyright go, the one posted on slashdot this morning pointing at worldofends.com was a nominally interesting morning skim. It basically sums up (on the lines) some fundamental rules or concepts about what the internet is — an agreement with little mindless bits flowing moving [...]

VHS, CDR, DVDR, and CompactFlash — they all rack up a small percentage of their cost and send it on over to the good folks who administrate this kind of thing. I trust they are doing their jobs.

One wonders how many other places micro-wars are erupting from the normalcy of ideological clashes.

Lunch left me with little to do. I had sent some digipics to FutureShop but they weren’t ready yet. And, in a rush this morning, I left my current read sitting on my bedside table. To top that off, my Visor is laying vulnerable on the coffee table where I left it [...]

Thought the.first: technically as a writer, I am a copyright holder (check the swirl down low…)
Thought the.second: as a copyright holder (under these proposed US laws) I have a right to protect my content
Thought the.third: in order to protect my content I am (again, under these same laws) permitted to ravage the HDD of anyone [...]

Opening up the old copyright debate again: my further digging rounded up a story on some new US anti-pirating laws whose scope should finally suck the life out of the few remaining freedoms that are held by we pitiful citizens of Earth. And here is my dilemma: how do you justify the restructuring of [...]