links for 2007-04-27
X1 Discussion :: View topic – How to jury rig local disk indexing A possible solution to the X1 “no external drives” problem, in case Google Search doesn’t work out for me. (tags: tools productivity) Desktop Tower Defense The latest time-wasting game (tags: fun)
Yahoo Desktop Search becomes less useful
I’ve been using Yahoo Desktop Search for a couple of years (a relabeled version of a product from X1) and have found it indispensable: I turned off Windows’ unusable and slow disk indexing processes and use YDS many times each day to find email and files on my system. There were a few glitches, such [...]
links for 2007-04-26
Intellicast’s Radar Loop for Traverse City (tags: toronto weather)
Gardiner Museum of ceramics
I finished my week of culture by visiting the Gardiner Museum on Saturday — Canada’s only museum dedicated to ceramics, from early Mesoamerican through the invention of porcelain in early Chinese dynasties to contemporary ceramics. I’ve visited the Gardiner before, but not since the major renovation that added a third floor, considerably more exhibit space [...]
An evening of opera and operetta
In stark contrast to the previous night’s Rocky Horror Show, Friday evening I attended an evening of opera and operetta, featuring Geoffrey Butler, a friend of mine who is a professional tenor. Geoff has a powerful voice, and my favourite memory of him is during one rather drunken dinner party at my place years ago [...]
Net Neutrality’s big chill
Neutrality.ca is off the air, with the following message: Thank you to all those who have supported our websites. Due to increasing legal concerns resulting from our public participation in the Net Neutrality debate, we have at this time decided to shut down the operation of these sites. We have no comment for the media [...]
A Tale of Two Musicals
I often go months — or years — without seeing a musical stage production, but somehow I’ve managed to see two in the last month. The first was We Will Rock You, based on the music of Queen in the same sort of way that Mamma Mia is based on Abba’s music: the songs and [...]
links for 2007-04-16
Boing Boing: Canada’s DMCA coming in this spring? Cory Doctorow on the proposed Canadian digital copyright law, and why it’s just as stupid as the US counterpart, the DMCA, which prevents you from accessing digital content that you legallly own on your own devices. (tags: canada music) other blog ยป Open Source Feminism Women in [...]
Google spamming me in real life
When I receive postal mail at the PO box address for my wine club, I know that something is weird — the PO box is only emptied every few days by another one of the (volunteer) board members, and I only see him every couple of weeks, so anything that I want to receive in [...]
What’s the emoticon for ambivalence?
I saw this in large poster format in an apartment window while on the train in from O’Hare airport to downtown Chicago earlier this week: My first thought that was this was a marketing campaign created by men, but it turns out the company behind it is a small group of women. I find it [...]
