Head over to Michael Gist’s site for information about a new bill that could be introduced as soon as tomorrow that will have huge impacts on peer to peer file sharing in Canada. The main bullet point is that file sharers would be fined $500 PER copyrighted file they shared.
I have a hard time believing something like this, at least in it’s current state, would get passed in Canada without any controversy.
I just got back from a Hawaiian vacation. Before I left, I waffled on what camera gear to bring. I had previously purchased a waterproof ‘bag’ that would fit my Kodak Zx1 camera but wasn’t too jazzed about using it since the back of the bag was blue rather than clear so while I’d be…
Bridges on Granville Island has been taken over and become the House of Switzerland during the Games. I attended their open house and got a preview of some of the things they have planned. The lineup was around the building: The place was PACKED! One neat feature of the House of Switzerland is the in-house…
This past weekend, my friends at GM Canada loaned me a red 2011 Camero convertible to drive up to Whistler to attend the Whistler Ski & Snowboard Festival, aka WSSF. Since the weather was perfect, it seemed fitting to strap the GoPro to the trunk and make a time-lapse of the trip up: The video…
The schedule is now live for Northern Voice 2012 so I thought it would be a good time to start reminding folks about it and to buy their tickets as they often sell out. I’m happy to announce that I’m hosting PhotoCamp for 2012 and I have a bunch of great folks lined up to…
Okay, not really at all but I couldn’t think of a better title. While I was lounging on the beach in Hawaii recently, two separate articles in which I was interviewed for appeared online (and possibly in dead tree form too – I actually don’t know). The first one was for the UBC Thunderbird Newspaper…
So yesterday, I said to not buy anything from Apple because today they’d be possibly announcing some new products. Well they did indeed announce a few new things and I bought one of them, the MacBook Air: It had been long rumoured that Apple would release a sub-notebook and I had guessed that it would…