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RT @michaelgeist: Cdn booksellers want gov't to block Amazon from building Canadian distribution network. http://bit.ly/aITwCg
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RT @M_Ignatieff: The Games revealed the longing of Canadians for moments like this, when we feel we are one team undivided: http://lpc.ca/OPED
Boo NBC: #van2010 closing ceremonies broadcasted with 3hr delay and then preempted by lame 'The Marriage Ref' premiere.
Just noticed LED rings by the YVR airport like in Coal Harbour. Gold, woohoo! Terminal is full of cheering and applause after curling.
I recently watched a Frontline episode on avatars and virtual worlds that summarized some really interesting research going on at Standord's Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL). This short clip is a good overview: The projects underway at VHIL show a lot of really exciting potential for collaboration in virtual worlds. They have a number [...] Read More…
Senate reform in Canada has received newfound attention lately thanks to Stephen Harper's recent appointments that give the Conservative Party a plurality in Parliament's upper chamber. Conservative dominance in the Senate increases the likelihood that pending Senate reform legislation will be approved, notwithstanding any challenges to legislation's constitutionality by the provinces. According to recent polls, [...] Read More…
My initial reaction to the Google Wave demo at I/O was luke warm. C'mon, it's just a nifty UI over publish/subscribe messaging! Along with pubsub, the federated aspect of Wave---the seamless integration of users across multiple domains---is just standing on top of vanilla XMPP. From a cynical point of view, Wave is [...] Read More…
One of the reasons that Twitter has become so popular is that it is a successful ambient awareness tool. With each tweet from a friend or person of interest, you get a subliminal sense of what he/she is up to. Each tweet also represents an opportunity for ad hoc, informal communication between Twitterers: In [...] Read More…
Good news! I'll soon be starting a software engineering gig at the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, a non-profit biomedical research organization. ISB is full of really great people and they're doing some exciting work in proteomics and computational biology. I'll be joining the Shmulevich Lab and I'll be starting [...] Read More…