Archive for September, 2007

Remake/Remodel

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

I hope I haven't used this Roxy Music song as a post title before... While assembling my upcoming conference papers, I've been twiddling with this blog on the side in lieu of regular updates (well, alright, I've also been focused on the dupobs release schedule - you can listen to ...

Vancouver Free the Net.ca

Monday, September 17th, 2007

I'm involved in the Vancouver Free the Net.ca initiative (though there may be disagreement over whether "initiative" is the appropriate word to describe it). VanFreetheNet is setting up ad hoc mesh networks in various parts of the city, partly in response to inertia and other issues related to the City ...

U.S. Justice Department values ISPs over people

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Ah, I see the baldfaced ignorance of an administration that invades Afghanistan and Iraq has trickled into the sphere of Internet regulation as well (Thanks to Flo for pointing me here).. To wit: "Regulators should be careful not to impose regulations that could limit consumer choice and investment in broadband facilities" ...

Ex-Perry Mental Geekery

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Nice to be back in the swim of things. I just put a final report out the door on a research project that I'd been working on for 14 months. It was a difficult project - one that didn't always go as planned, that got intermittently sidelined by other events ...