Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn…
Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with…
I thought I would take the opportunity to highlight the need for editing technical documents (really, all documents).
Take these three captioned screen shots:
Apple’s well-known…
If you haven’t seen this yet, welcome back from the Moon!
When I saw this demo, I hit DND on my phone and watched this demo very carefully.
Google Wave seems to offer a lot of…
A few months ago, I asked the Identi.ca community what I could use to (more or less) securely synchronize my documents across the three major platforms (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows), for free. I…
Last week I attended the Free / Open-source Software Learning Centre’s (FOSSLC) SummerCamp 2009. Among the many interesting, informative seminars was a talk on the Gdium Liberty, a (nearly)…
Linux laboratory
A Linux laboratory (next to the Fibre optic lab) at Algonquin College I spotted while at FOSSLC SummerCamp 2009. Why doesn’t every school have one of these?
Posted…As I continue to learn to play this instrument—the erhu (二胡)—I’m learning its musical and social culture as well. The following passage is a comment on the video above:
An old blind man was playing this piece on a street the other day in Chengdu, Sichuan , China. Lots of people were gathering around him, listening to the music quietly in the street noise. A beggar went up to the musician, overturned all his pockets, and poured the contents into the instrument case. The beggar turned around. I saw his face, dirty, and full of tears…
This is not an altogether unreasonable reaction: I’m not ashamed to admit that this instrument has, in the hands of a professional, moved me to tears during live performances.
I recently discovered twtpoll.com, a free, no-hassle polling system originally designed for polling the twitterverse, though it certainly has promise outsite micro-blogging.
Following from a…
Just turned on server-status or server-info?
I have previously not made much use of Apache’s server-status and server-info functions, but recently I’ve found a use for them as traffic and…
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