Last week, I wrote about my experiences using Notational Velocity and Simplenote to turn a collection of text files into a quick, searchable, cloud-based notetaking system. Today, I’m going to complain about what’s wrong with it. Now, to be fair, I’m quite pleased with the whole Notational Velocity package. Simplenote’s team are quick to respond to […]
Posts Categorized: Suggestion Box
On Haiti and Sarcasm
Dear CBC Commenter: I understand that “some of [your] best friends are Haitian” and that you’re only talking about the “bad ones” when you say “Canada will be overrun by gangs and HIV” if we fast-track the immigration process for Haitian refugees. I get that you’re not really a racist, I do. In fact, I totally […]
Catherine’s Vancouver is growing
While hanging out at a Main Street coffee shop this afternoon, I overheard a conversation between a mom and her four-year-old. “We can go out to the airport,” the mom said as they were leaving. “Oh, that’s a long drive!” Yes. Yes it is. With the opening of the Canada Line now moved up to August […]
Blogathon 2009: 3 killed, 14 injured. Also, kitty videos!
So this has been bugging me for a long time: Digg.com seems to have grown past the point of usefulness lately. Digg is ostensibly a link-sharing site, where the most popular sites people are reading and voting upon are promoted to the front page. The downside to this is that popularity does not equal relevance. […]
Won’t you be my neighbour?
For the past few years, I’ve lived in a Vancouver Special, chopped up into a few suites. My entire street, and in fact, most of my neighbourhood is like that, I suspect. It’s the sort of apartment realtors and landlords describe as “cozy”, but it’s decent. I know a few of my neighbours: There’s the […]
Suggestion Box: Attribution/ShareAlike/ActuallyTellMeAboutIt
Creative Commons covers almost all use cases apart from one revealed on Twitter this morning: you’ve granted others the right to use and remix your work, but how do you know if someone’s done it? Sure, it’s certainly courteous to do so, but they’re not necessarily under any obligation to let you know about it. With […]