I think I inadvertently insulted someone today, with one of those odd reminders of how some tech terms haven’t quite permeated the general lexicon as much as I think they have. I was talking about an upcoming meeting, one involving a few people involved in a much larger meeting later in the week as a […]
Entries from July 2008
A Blog Post: Beta Version
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: copyright reform · eh? · personal
Behind “The Waldo Ultimatum” (Part 1)
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments
The Where’s Waldo on WordPress blog has posted the first part of a three-part interview Matt Hoos and I conducted with blogger Michael Liss last month about “Where’s Waldo” and even thought it was a three hour discussion about Waldo, he’s somehow managed to make us sound reasonably coherent.
Tags: A series of tubes · personal
Ah man this is going to be stuck in my head all day…
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Feist teaches us about counting to a number bigger than three, but less than five…
Tags: A series of tubes · canadiana
Plight of the Beer Commercial Husband
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments
beer commercial husband, your plight is that of blindness to her plight. your only explanation you offer when she found you pouring kitty litter into the bathtub is a sheepish grin. you impulse-bought a motorcycle when the two of you were saving for a minivan, and your solution is to get a sidecar and a […]
Tags: congratulations · funnybooks · people I wish I were
Rocket Ace Moving Pictures: Questionable Choices in Corporate Retreats Since 2008
July 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Sorry it was such a quiet few days. I have a bit of a hard time tracking to whom I’ve said what (and where), but much of the RocketAce family decended upon San Diego last week to celebrate the wedding of Chad Thompson and Jennie Reichert. We were only a handful of cast and crew […]
Tags: congratulations · personal
C-61: Attack of the Comments Thread
July 9th, 2008 · 6 Comments
My previous post on C-61 sparked some interesting comments from Russell McOrmond (a programmer from Ottawa who raised some interesting points vis-a-vis software) and Tim Harwell (a musician from my hometown of Calgary who… just didn’t agree with a lot of what I said). Since I know many/most of you don’t read the comments – […]
Tags: canadiana · copyright reform · electronic entertainment · entertainment law · media ramblings
Bill C-61 isn’t great for producers either.
July 3rd, 2008 · 12 Comments
Yeah, you had to know this was coming. So here’s the standard disclaimer – I make the entirety of my income off profits from the exploitation of copyrighted works. Far from being a piracy apologist, I believe content creators have the right to monetize their creations as much (or as little) as they like. I […]
Tags: copyright reform · entertainment law · media ramblings