What Keeps Me Up At Night.

Just back from a short road trip to Toronto and I must say, I’ve got serious trouble sleeping. It is the time zone change you ask ? No. Is high strees from all the work ? No. It is too many ideas cramming my tiny brain ? No. It’s an owl.

Audio proof. Tomorrow, on the BigSnit podCast.

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Talk Like a Pirate Day

It only comes once a year, and it’s here. Talk Like A Pirate Day.
If you’re a little rusy on your pirate word-power, check this Pirate Glossary.
If you need ‘em to decorate your workspace, there are pirate images here and here.
If you’re looking to for just the right get-up for today, I particularly like the DELUXE pirate hat, not to be confused with a regular pirate hat

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Feline Domain?

The pet owners will be lining up in droves for this one. The newest domain to get the go ahead is .cat - this from ICANN or Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It’s meant for “individuals, organizations and companies that promote the Catalan language” but like the .tv domain, watch it get picked up for all sorts of other uses. I’m betting cool.cat and hep.cat will go fast. Our cat’s already pestering me for his, but Ozzie’s going to have to wait.

At the same time, ICANN deferred again the idea of creating the .xxx domain for porn sites, despite some logical arguments that having their own domain would help clean up other parts of the name space.

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Node Thy Neighbour

The Neighbornode gives your home wireless network a job as the local welcome wagon. Its a great idea, particularly for high density areas. Here’s the pitch from the nodesters…

These nodes transmit signal for around 300 feet, so everyone within that range has access to the board and can read and post to it. This means that with a Neighbornode you can broadcast a message to roughly everyone whose apartment window is within 300 feet of yours (and has line of sight), and they can broadcast messages back to you. Boards are only accessible from computers that go through the local node.

Right now the nodes are set up to run off a Linksys wireless router. Can blind-node-dating by far behind ? More info at neighbornode.net/index.html

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Hour of Power

Heavenly.

There’s something about spending the week working with bits that makes spending a weekend spent working with a power washer one little piece of heaven. Flame on.

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RSS feed for Bigsnit now Feedburner

I’ve switched the syndication (RSS) to a Feedburner feed - this lets me track usage better and also saves work with the podCast listings at iTunes.

The new RSS feed is : http://feeds.feedburner.com/bigsnit
please use this instead of the old one. There is also a link in the sidebar to this feed.

Thanks !

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Mobile Number Portability - CRTC wants to hear

Earlier this week I wrote about Richard Branson’s full page ad regarding mobile phone number portability in Canada. Now the CRTC, the federal regulator, is asking for comments on the situation. Here’s the CRTC invitation or grab the PDF here.
The papers may not be discussing it, but others are - notably Michael Geist in Ottawa.

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