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Welcome, Emaya Cleaver

Today, at 7:24am, after 3 hours of hard labour, our baby daughter Emaya Cleaver was born at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto. Andrea and Emaya are doing well’ Tayden – our almost 3 year old – is a happy brother, and … Continue reading

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WikiSym 2010: Call for Papers, and Call to Industry

The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration WikiSym 2010 website July 7-8-9 in Gdansk, Poland. Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia Foundation projects, Wikimania 2010 website). Peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library. Important dates March … Continue reading

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Are you 40+ and will video game for the first time just for Rock Band Beatles Edition?

Hi all – can you forward this through your networks? Any Beatles older fans (40s, 50s, 60s) so excited about The Beatles: Rock Band that will start gaming for the first time because of its release? In case you don’t … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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Knowledge Workers Toronto: Jan 28, 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 … Continue reading

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One Laptop Per Child: Cultural Impact in Peru

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 … Continue reading

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My complaint about Rogers to the CRTC, and their response

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 … Continue reading

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Macs can’t read LVM disks

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … Continue reading

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