Phishing is nothing new. But they keep trying new tricks. Here’s the latest modification (on top of the clever ASCII-Art form and spoofed email address):
The phishing email is apparently ©2010, The University of Calgary. Well, I’d sure believe that. We’ve been told to trust everyone who claims copyright, right?
I assume/hope there is a standing order to fire anyone on the spot for providing their account info to these moronic phishers.
Read MoreWhen Naheed Nenshi was campaigning for mayor of Calgary, he used Twitter and other social media extremely well. He was obviously tweeting/etc himself, rather than letting his PR committee handle it for him (as all other candidates appeared to do). Now that he’s been elected mayor, he’s still showing how to use social media effectively.
He’s the mayor of a major Canadian city, and he still makes time to engage with citizens on Twitter and other social media. Not as a way to manage spin, but as a direct democratic channel.
Read MoreI wonder if I can retrofit my current bike with handlebar flamethrowers…
Read MoreI manage or monitor a few servers, and it’s a good idea to keep an eye on how they’re holding up. The Linux `uptime` command is all I need - show me how long the server’s been up (or if it’s cycled recently - power hiccup?), and CPU load averages.
I just whipped up a dead-simple solution to let me embed the uptime reports from the servers into my retro homepage.
Read MoreI’m working on a project that involves building a website to organize and present a bunch of content. We could do it in raw HTML, but it makes more sense to use a content management system. We could do it in Drupal, but my ability to make Drupal look good is somewhat lacking. So, I’m using a site on UCalgaryBlogs to take advantage of Wordpress’ content management features. Here’s the basic how-to:
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that article has 63 citations, as counted by Google Scholar.
Read MoreOf the photos I’ve taken, this one has been by far the most published (actually, the entire landfill series has been rather popular). It’s been in books, magazines, videos, and a bunch of websites. This morning, I fired up my feed reader, and saw it staring at me again from a post on BoingBoing. Awesome. (although they blurred the photo a little when they resized it, but whatever…)
My MP for the last 13 years has been Rob Anders. The man is an extremist, and an idiot. But the Conservatives could run a lobotomized chimp and it’d get elected in my riding. This is the buffoon that cast the lone vote to block granting an honorary Canadian citizenship for Nelson Mandela in 2001 - claiming Mandela is a terrorist.
The latest bit of class from this cretin is in response to our recent civic election, where record voter turnout resulted in Naheed Nenshi being elected Mayor.
Read MoreThe next few years in Calgary are going to be very interesting. And by interesting, I mean awesome.
Read MoreThe Johnny Cash Project took the final studio recording made by The Man In Black, and had people contribute hand-drawn frames from a video shot for it, to be compiled into a fan-art video.
Through the Contribute section of the website, you are given 3 frames from the video, and some tools to draw your own version of them.
Your drawing(s) are then sent into the pool of available images for the appropriate frames of the video, and can be displayed in the final composition. Drawings can be voted up, or curated by the director.
It’s an interesting way to enable multiple submissions for a time-based presentation.
A great article by David Wong, thinking through some of the implications of digital distribution and copyright. Published in that champion of futurism and deep thinking: Cracked.com
> If you want to know what the future looks like, there it is. The future is going to hang on whether or not businesses will be able to convince you to pay money for things you can otherwise get for free.
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> Some of you think I’m about to talk about file sharing and DRM and the evil record labels. But that’s just a teaser of what’s coming. The world has changed. All the rules we were trained to believe about society from birth until now are about to go out the window.