Pay very, very close attention to what’s going on at CBC Unplugged. If you’re active in the field of labour relations, that site may just be a crystal ball into your future.

It’s the latest project from locked-out CBC producer Tod Maffin (whose name appears so often on these pages partly because he’s produced my pieces from time to time, but mainly because he’s doing such fascinating stuff). At… Read more...

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for Evan Leeson’s blog, blurt.info, the newest addition to my blogroll.

I’ve known Evan since we worked together in a squat concrete building known as The Bunker, on the grounds of the BC Legislature, during the last months of Mike Harcourt’s government and the first months of Glen Clark’s. We’d have long conversations about the Net and online technologies that… Read more...

Pat Robertson today:

A US TV evangelist has said comments in which he appeared to call for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez were misinterpreted.

Pat Robertson on Monday:

“If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.”

A rant follows.

You know how in the aftermath of 9/11, there was an… Read more...

A client just sent me a batch of files as background information. And my heart sank as I saw that procession of “.wpd” file extensions. Ugh: WordPerfect files.

There was a time when WordPerfect was the champion of the word processing world. That time was well over a decade ago, though, and Microsoft Word is now the undisputed leader while WordPerfect languishes in relative obscurity.

But every… Read more...

Okay, I can understand bowdlerizing words like f**k and sh-t and j@k$%m*ckled… but as the son of a Dick (as in “short for Richard”), I’m a little narked at what seems to be going on in this screenshot of the iTunes podcast directory:

I’m not sure if this silliness is happening… Read more...

Andy Budd is making iTunes smart playlists jump through some pretty impressive hoops, all in the service is keeping a fresh supply of music cycling through. If you’re starting to feel your tunes are getting stale, have a look at his techniques – they’re pretty impressive.

Meanwhile, he tosses off a quick aside that’s worth its weight in gold records:

Here is a quick tip that frustrated… Read more...

To echo Alex:

We’ve been delighted with our current hosts, Ace of Space, but as our site and domain empire expands, it’s beginning to look like it would be economical for us to get a hosting package that allows unlimited domains.

A friend recommends IV Hosting, which offers 3GB of space and unlimited domains for only US $99/year. A great deal, but not the most… Read more...

I was just pointed to the folks at gVisit.com, who run a clever service using Google Maps to show you the locations of the 20 most recent visitors to your web site.

Setting up is simple: give gVisit your web site’s name and URL, and they give you a little code snippet to paste on whatever web pages you’d like to track. Within an hour, you’re looking at… Read more...