by Rob Cottingham | Jan 31, 2007 | Environment
There’s this French initiative that has caught on well beyond the country’s borders: turning off our lights for five minutes in the evening on Thursday, February 1st. (That’s 10:55 am to 11:00 am our time here in B.C.)It’s meant to draw... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 26, 2007 | Technology
You know that song? The one that goes “la la la, ba dum, la la”? Dammit, what’s it called?A new service says it can tell you. Midomi uses a Flash interface that has you sing or hum a fragment of that mystery song into your computer’s... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 22, 2007 | Blogging
…and it’s full of little improvements. Probably the biggest one is in the posting interface, which is now tabbed, and lets you switch seamlessly from a WYSIWYG editor (which, mercifully, finally seems to work) to a modified HTML pane. The news is here on... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 20, 2007 | Second Life, Technology
Darren Barefoot’s done it again: a hilarious one-page send-up. The target this time is Second Life. And yet something about it strikes me as poignant. Maybe it’s the number of people out there who aren’t exploring their first lives with any sense of... by Rob Cottingham | Jan 15, 2007 | Vancouver
I’ve corresponded with Matthew Klippenstein a few times over the past few years, and found him to be an engaging, entertaining writer. Now I learn that, in addition to being an engineer at Ballard Power Systems, he’s also a playwright. So I’m pretty...
