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First the iPhone 3.0 update implemented new podcast-friendly playback controls (identical to a post I made last year on a tech site (that I can’t now find) on how I wished they worked) – now Google has finally enabled image searching only within photos which are “creative commons” licensed! As someone who uses a lot […]

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So I’m back from my two-day sojourn into the heart of darkness of government. The CRTC net neutrality public hearings have a couple of (big) days to go yet. I think the joint CFTPA / IFTA team did a tremendous job in preparation and all we can do now is hope that we at least […]

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Very interesting day in Ottawa yesterday preparing for the CFTPA presentation to the CRTC today. Lots of involved conversation with extremely intelligent individuals… I’m coming to the startling realization that this “government” of ours actually entails a lot of hard work. Who knew? Having probably read, spoke, and thought more about the myriad aspects of […]

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[ Update 07/20/09 – According to the support staff at Skoobysoft, surplusmeter does not monitor tethering traffic… this is surprising since it’s done a fine job for me (I even tested it by downloading some files of known size and comparing the results), but others are having problems with it… see the comments below for […]

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I felt bad about not doing a Canada day-specific post last week so this feels pretty good. I had an uneventful trip to Ottawa today (an aside – why is it that just knowing you have a flight to catch at some point in the day – no matter when – always makes the whole […]

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Simon Owens of Bloggasm dropped me an e-mail today to let me know about a recent post he wrote about the “value” of a single link from the Huffington Post. He (rightly) uses it to point out some of the many absurdities of Richard Posner’s now-infamous blog post (the one about making it illegal to […]

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