http://blog.jdlh.com Helping business go global, live from British Columbia Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:06:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the cheers still resound outside my apartment, from the street party below, let me report on my own Olympic sport: police-spotting. It's like bird watching, but for police agencies. Some 118 different police agencies from across Canada came to the Vancouver area as part of the $900 million 2010 Olympics ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2010/02/28/olympics_police/ I just resolved a problem which has been an annoyance for two years. I'm posting the details as robobait in the hopes it will help others. Our family network includes a Samba file server hosted on an NSLU2 server appliance by Linksys (now a part of Cisco). A long time ago ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/12/28/nslu2-modtimes/ A colleague from Green College, UBC, freshly graduated with an MFA in Poetry, but also with work experience in editing and publishing, is looking for a job in the Lower Mainland. At a party yesterday, we talked about the Vancouver (British Columbia) social media scene, and how she can get ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/12/14/social-media-scene/ I'm giving another talk at the Vancouver Joomla User Group started up recently. This group started this summer, and is now attracting a steady level of participation. It's great to see a Joomla! community developing. Here’s the coordinates: Getting in touch with your Joomla's inner database Monday, 30. November 2009, 18:30-20:30h. At ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/11/30/joomla_database/ During July-Sept 2009, the Government of Canada held public copyright consultations, with an eye to writing new copyright law. They asked for submissions addressing five topics.  Here's one of my submissions, on "Competition and Investment". It's hard to tell what will become of these consultations. My submission did eventually show ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/11/30/copyright-competition-investment/ I just figured out a solution for a problem setting up a piece of Windows freeware on my computer, and I'm recording it here as robobait so that others can benefit from it. I use the wonderful Exact Audio Copy (EAC) software to rip my CDs to FLAC files, as part ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/11/10/eac_file_creation_error/ During July-Sept 2009, the Government of Canada held public copyright consultations, with an eye to writing new copyright law. They asked for submissions addressing five topics.  Here's one of my submissions, on the "test of time". It's hard to tell what will become of these consultations, because the government may ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/10/31/copyright-and-test-of-time/ A Vancouver Joomla User Group started up recently. We're experimenting with what format will serve us well. For this month's meeting, I'll give a talk about staging servers (details below) and we'll have plenty of time for networking and Q&A. I there there's lots of room for more Joomla content ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/10/08/joomla_staging_server/ During July-Sept 2009, the Government of Canada held public copyright consultations, with an eye to writing new copyright law. They asked for submissions addressing five topics.  Here's one of my submissions, on "Copyright and you". It's hard to tell what will become of these consultations, because the government may fall ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/09/30/copyright-and-you/ One of the many nice touches of the Django framework is that it provides tools and instructions to make a standalone Django documentation set from its distribution.  (Django is an application framework for the Python language that helps with database access and web application.)  Standalone docs are great for people ... http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/08/06/django-docs/