Hey Adobe!

Thanks for nothing.

Yesterday was Internet blackout day. To do my little part I followed Wikipedia, 2600, Reddit and a host of other by blacking out my site.  So just how many people were inconvenienced by what I did?

Copyfraud is now available in Canada. Shortly after blogging about the American experience I'm now noticing an instance of Copyfraud north of the 40th Parallel. I can't take credit for finding it myself, I read about it on the Excess Copyright blog.

 Just recently SOPA became a big deal.  If you haven't hear the basics Michael Geist provides a snappy overview.   The intersection of copyright and internet access issues have really come into the main stream in the past year or so.

My Presentation Material for the EZProxy Virtual Users Group Meeting. Using Javascript, UserAgent detection, and CSS I made a simple mobile interface.

"Re-Purposing OpenURL Meta data to create Journal OPAC records" Or "Taking Fuzzy Data from a Black Box, crossing your fingers and putting it in the OPAC

via Prezi

I still remember the first hack that I witnessed with my own eyes.  My buddy we'll call him 'G',  and I were sitting in front of a computer in our High School Grade 10 programming class. Some of the specifics escape me but it was an amazing bit of computer work.  

One sure fire way to get in trouble on the net these days is to use plaintext instead of SSH.  We've all learned that with Firesheep someone in Starbucks can assume your identity on Facebook while you drink an over priced coffee.

Officially ported the IAScraper to GitHub.  Soon to be ported to Python.  Yup, GitHub and Python, I'm really getting out of my comfort zone.

One day my work email suddenly didn't work on my phone.  Despite grumbling under my breath and swearing a lot to myself I managed to fix the problem, it wasn't pretty but thankfully things work better now then before. Basically I got skunked by a patch to Exchange 2010 SP1. It was a Bell Samsung branded Android 2.2 device.