Sydney Australia Screen Saver
December 30, 2005
Next to Vancouver and San Francisco, Sydney Australia is one of my favourite cities.
Here’s a little New Year present for anyone wishing they were there.
Get the screen saver here. Unzip the file and run the setup. It will self install.
Sorry, Windows only 
Santa Still at Work
December 29, 2005
No rest for the new Trim Santa. Spotted hard at work at Granville Island.
No Bed Time Stories for Bears
December 29, 2005
Living here on Vancouver’s North Shore means living with black bears. With the mild weather, and an abundant supply of easy-pickings (read garbage) some of the local black bears are sticking around for the winter instead of heading up into the snow for a sleep.
Personally, if I had the option of sleeping for a few months or spending my days working, I know which way I’d go.
Despite the great work of the North Shore Bear Network and the Get Bear Smart folks, too many people continue to leave bear-tempting-goodies out, things like garbage and bird feed.
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December 28, 2005
I finally get to do something with Roland ! Yah!
Roland Tanglao from Bryght and I will be hosting a session on Podcasting for New Media BC.
It’s coming up January 26th, at the Vancouver Film School on Homer.
If you’re wondering what podcasting is all about, how to do it, and what it can do for your company, this will be a great session.
20 $ for NMBC members, 30 $ for non-members. Register at New Media BC
Sphere: Related ContentA Vancouver Screen Saver for Christmas
December 24, 2005
Here’s a screen saver full of pics from around Vancouver taken over the last couple of weeks. It’s great if you’ve got a big monitor or two.
Native size is 1920 x 1277 but will resize to fit your monitor.
Unzip the file and run setup. It will self install and comes with some controls you can tweak if you’re so inclined.
Sorry, it’s Windows only
Download the .zip file here.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Spam Generated Content
December 24, 2005
Today I decided to do something productive with all that spam. I’ve got at least 4-thousand emails filtered away, the spoils of the last couple of months of spam.
I’ve opted for a fresh new approach.
It’s a variation on Re-use/ReCycle.
No sense filling the trash bin with all that content, as useless as it may be.
So, I decided to create a new musical genre.
I call it SGC. Spam Generated Content.
Here’s what you do.
Take the subject line, plug it into a text-to-speech synthesizer, then lay down some tracks.
Presto.
I admit, it’s not exactly the wall-O-sound…but I’ve got enough raw material here for years, and there’s more showing up every day.
Here it is, my Christmas present to the Internet. Oh, and if any of you spammers want to share the royalties on this sure winner, just let us know who you are…
The Spam Song - Runs 2.30 (bigsnit - mapl)
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Ben Garfinkel gets Graphic
December 23, 2005
A couple of days ago I mentioned an email exchange with Ben Garfinkel from Industral Brand Creative.
Ben sent me a copy of the latest edition of Graphic Exchange in which he writes about blogging. You can get a pdf copy here, or visit the Graphic Exchange web site.
BTW: The irony of Ben emailing me to get a surface mail address so he could send me hard copy of an article about blogging didn’t escape him.
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