Without even time for a “Berlin Diaries Part II,” we’re back in sunny Kitsilano… to the news that the hard drive on our desktop computer is kaput.I’ve had a computer’s hard drive go south before — a laptop that happened to be holding the only copy of every speech I’d written in the 1997 federal election campaign. Poof: gone.Ever since, I’ve been a little paranoid about data storage. But it… Read more...

Frequent fliers with Air Raincoast will remember a post from a while ago about how hard it was to get kicked off the mailing list for the glossy publication eWeek, from the fine folks at InfoWorld.

I received successive e-mails in the winter and spring of 1991 imploring, wheedling and threatening me — all in the hopes that I’d give them permission to resume mailing a huge, plastic-wrapped, not-entirely-useful… Read more...