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5 user licenses for Confluence Wiki & JIRA Bug Tracking for $5

Monday, April 20th, 2009

I’ve you’ve been thinking about evaluating, or using Confluence or JIRA for a small team, now would be a great time to acquire a license.
Atlassian, a leader vendor (I have done many wiki deployments of Confluence: it’s a solid product), is offering a new multi-user license of their flagship product for just $5. Further, this […]

Heathcare Wikis At Toronto Public Library: Toronto Wiki Tuesdays March Meetup

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

http://www.meetup.com/TorontoWikiTuesdays/calendar/9716560/
This month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday speakers are from Toronto Public Library. They will speak about their work on Wikis for Healthcare
Date: 10 March 2008
Time: 6:30 for 7pm
Event Sponsor: Citadel Rock
When and Where:
6:30pm, Tuesday 10th March
See http://www.meetup.com/TorontoWikiTuesdays/calendar/9716560/ for location and sign-up
Synopsis
In a large public organization it can be a challenge to quickly adopt new technologies, especially […]

Knowledge Workers Toronto: Jan 28, 2009

Monday, January 19th, 2009

I’ve recently teamed up with Stephanie Barnes and Connie Crosby to put together a Toronto-based speaker series aimed at exploring and enhancing the world of the knowledge worker.
Our talk events, Knowledge Workers Toronto, aim at the practices and management to benefit the needs of the worker, such that the worker, […]

One Laptop Per Child: Cultural Impact in Peru

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Ivan Krsti recently returned from a grueling three-week stay in Peru, where he worked with the Ministry of Education team entrusted with the country’s 260-thousand laptop One Laptop Per Child implementation.
His story highlights how the OLPC project (which I reported on in 2006) is changing culture, getting kids to be more open and sharing […]

My complaint about Rogers to the CRTC, and their response

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The power that Rogers exert in the market for wireless, wireless data and broadband internet is utterly ridiculous. The competitive situation for these services in Canada has always been poor, but the situation was made much worse when they bought Microcell.
Since we’ve had GSM monopoly the ONLY way to use innovative GSM products is through […]

Macs can’t read LVM disks

Monday, June 16th, 2008

From a conversation on IRC’s #lvm channel:
MartinCleaver_: I have a ext3 in lvm filesystem on an external USB drive. How can I mount this on my mac? I have macfuse installed in case that can help.

[09:09am]bmr:MartinCleaver_, afaik, you can’t do that easily

[09:09am]bmr:the userspace parts of LVM2 will actually build/run on Mac […]

7 days, 1M signatures: petition supporting human rights and dialogue in Tibet

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

From the team at Avaaz:
Dear friends,
In just 7 days over 1 million of us have signed the petition supporting human rights and dialogue in Tibet - the fastest growing internet petition in history! After decades of injustice, the Tibetan people are crying out to the world for change, and the world is answering.
As China’s leaders […]

A new desktop PC for Virtualisation, osx86 and the New Year.

Friday, January 4th, 2008

My trusty laptop (an IBM X30) died a few weeks back. My data is fine but there’s something very unstable about the machine itself. After almost 5 years of intensive use, a survival from someone spilling coffee over it when I first came to Canada, and having accompianed me on many trips around this planet, […]

External USB Video card for PS3? RSX workaround?

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

I have a PS3 that I “won” for talking at Office 2.0. I don’t really play games - no spare time. And their’s no emulator to let the PS3 run Wii games, yet. So what do I use the PS3 for? Running Yellow Dog Linux as a general purpose home print and file server […]

Society of Internet Professionals: Talk - Weds 28th Nov 2007

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I’ll be giving a short talk at Social Networking night at Society of Internet Professionals on Weds 28th Nov, starting 6pm. I’ll discuss how wikis and related technologies work as open intranets and extranets, and how Social Networking techniques have and can been applied to wikis.
Their event will be at the Metro Convention Center, room […]