Monthly Archives: September 2009

Quiet civility

Today David Eaves is writing about an experience he had in a meeting recently: The day long event included 180+ leaders and interested parties from different sectors and was supposed to cap off discussions that had been going on about the future of British Columbia. But rather than be an open dialogue, the discussion was intensely [...]
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Getting what we paid for as Canadians

Jesse Brown is guestblogging over at boingboing, and he’s asking a question I’ve asking for a long time: The real question here is, since CBC content is funded by the public, shouldn’t the public own it? Or at least have access to it? Actually, the CBC archives are just the tip of the iceberg: the overwhelming [...]
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Rereading Chesterton

Tonight I found myself rereading Chesterton’s Orthodoxy.  I bought it recently, only to find that I already owned it.  And as I read it, I remembered reading it before.  I also remembered the feeling it brought to me then, since I’m experiencing it once again now. Chesterton is a great writer.  I could turn to almost [...]
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On the way to thinking

Today I came across a great post by Eugene Wallingford, in which he considers what it means to teach thinking, especially in the context of students studying computer science and software.  He writes: Today one of my students tweeted that he had started doing something new: setting aside time each day to sit and think. This [...]
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Inane babble, because the world is inane and insane

so over lunch, an older guy in a big black car comes along, parks in front of my house, gets out his lawn chair and lunch cooler, and has a leisurely lunch under my tree. (ctyler on irc) Don’t be fooled by people who tell you that social media like Twitter is pointless dribble, inane [...]
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Extra Curricular

I’m just back from the first lecture in our Seneca Mozilla Open Source courses.  Chris and I are team teaching it this time, and we spent today introducing our way of working, and what open source is all about.  This year we’re going to try and film our talks and demos, and we’ll be posting [...]
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Graffiti

This quote from Jon Stokes in a 2003 post on Ars sums up exactly where I’m at today: Even though I find it to be extremely relevant, there’s simply no way to glaze over the pretentiousness of putting a Derrida excerpt on the front page of a tech website, or any website for that matter He adds: So [...]
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Mozilla and Education, Fall 2009 edition

Today, as students and professors make their way to a new set of classes, we reopen Mozilla Education for Fall 2009.  Last year we had more than 60 students from around the world get involved in Mozilla projects as part of their course work.  We saw both individual students looking for a chance to practice [...]
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Vignette of Home School

This was a throw away anecdote, but I enjoyed the nod nevertheless.  President Obama on his time being home schooled: I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided [...]
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A bridge

Tomorrow I go back to teaching for another year.  I’ve been on holidays for most of the summer, at home with my family, who have also been home.  It’s been both a busy and relaxing summer.  And tonight, as I watched the sun set on my last full day of summer, I went for a [...]
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