http://www.strangelyentangled.com Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:56:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't posted in awhile, mostly because I've been lazy, but at least I can claim that life has been pretty eventful over the past month or two. We just finished our move to Port Moody, BC - a little suburb of Vancouver near Simon Fraser University. Downtown Vancouver was interesting ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/08/30/new-city-new-car-same-old-blog/ According to this CNN article, due to increased costs in transportation (ie: rising fuel prices) Americans drove 9.6 billion miles less in May 2008 than they did in May 2007. Think about that for a minute. 9.6 BILLION miles. That's a big number, isn't it? How big? The average distance between the ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/07/29/americans-make-fewer-trips-to-the-sun-in-may-2008/ Defective by Design, the "militant wing of the Free Software Foundation" (my words) isn't happy with the openness of the iPhone platform. In response, they are advocating the physical equivalent of a Denial of Service attack against Apple Stores around the world. They want people to book multiple 10-minute slots ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/07/26/free-software-foundation-wants-to-dos-apple/ Here is my first post from my iPhone using the new Wordpress for iPhone client. So far I like this app. Basic post support with tags, categories, multiple blog support, etc. Looks like it can handle photo uploads too. Not bad for a first release. http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/07/22/first-post-from-iphone/ Well I caved in and bought an iPhone 3G. I wasn't going to. Really. Honest. OK, well not at first that is... Sure, the local Fido store was our first stop after we got back from vacation on July 11th. But it's not like we camped out in line. We showed up ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/07/17/got-my-iphone-3g/ Well it looks as though summer has finally arrived in Vancouver. Lots of sun, nice warm temperatures (thankfully nowhere near as hot as Ottawa) ... I think it's time I dig out those old rollerblades and take 'em for a spin tonight. In other news: I purchased an HP2133 subnotebook. It ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/06/30/summer-is-finally-here/ Last Sunday (June 14th) was Car-free Vancouver Day, and Nat and I celebrated by buying her a new bike. Actually, I'm really not sure how that happened because we were supposed to be looking for a bike for me. But somehow she lucked out and is now the proud owner ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/06/20/car-free-vancouver-day/ In my previous post I published a form-letter response that my friend Sam received from Dick Harris, the Cariboo-Prince George MP. Since the response was fairly long, I thought I would publish my analysis/comments in a separate post. Minister of Industry Jim Prentice is obviously trying to put a very pro-Canadian ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/06/13/analysis-of-dick-harris-copyright-act-response-email/ My friend Sam sent an email to her MP (Dick Harris, Cariboo-Prince George), detailing her concerns regarding the proposed amendments to the Canadian Copyright Act. She has give me permission to post the form-letter response she received: Dear Samantha,   As an individual who enjoys the arts, as well as, an enthusiast of ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/06/13/response-from-a-bc-mp-re-copyright-act-amendments/ Well it's all over the news now. Jim Prentice, the Canadian Minister of Industry recently unveiled his proposed amendments to the Canadian Copyright Act, and they're terrible. The amendments are even worse than the US DMCA, and if enacted into law, would make it illegal to do things like watching ... http://www.strangelyentangled.com/2008/06/12/canadian-copyright-act-amendments-act-now-or-youll-be-a-criminal/