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I’ve posted the photos from last weekend’s trip to Dirk & Christine’s cottage near Haliburton. Check out the leaves! Check out the wolves munching on beaver carcasses! The two mug shots here are their sons Sean and Kevin. I’ve also posted a couple of pictures of Hartford. Looks like I’ve only got a couple more […]

2002 10 28 tom Comments (0)

I’m looking forward to seeing Michael Moore’s new movie, Bowling for Columbine. He has a highly entertaining rant on his web site today about the sniper, the guns, and the guy in charge. Lots of fun. In other news, it looks like my last week in Hartford will be the week after next. I’ve got […]

2002 10 24 tom Comments (0)

By your search engine requests will ye be known. From the Dreamhost web server logs for my site, here are the search requests from this week that led people to tomleslie.ca: #reqs: search term —–: ———– 3: tom leslie 2: kelly baxter golding 1: book reviews no one lives forever 1: romantika party estonia girls […]

2002 10 23 tom Comments (0)

Another great weekend! On Friday I manned the door at the Exultate concert “In the Beginning”, which presented a wonderful collection of American choral music, featuring the Copeland work of the same name. It was a beautiful concert. Despite the fact that half of the bass and tenor sections were new to the choir this […]

2002 10 21 tom Comments (0)

Another important organizations from the standpoint of liberating content: Project Gutenburg is digitizing open source books so they can be downloaded off the web, anywhere, for free. And an interesting tidbit I dug up on copyright law in Canada: I could be reading it wrong, but doesn’t this mean I can copy a CD without […]

2002 10 17 tom Comments (0)

More from Lawrence Lessig: slides and voiceover commentary from a speech at an open source conference in July.

2002 10 16 tom Comments (0)

There’s a wonderful battle going on at the moment in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, over the future of the dread bill, the DCMA. At stake are a number of important issues, but basically it comes down to how long a creation can stay in private hands. With DCMA, the U.S. Government is trying […]

2002 10 16 tom Comments (0)

What a fabulous weekend we just had! In my Thanksgiving list for this year, I’m giving thanks for a lot of things, but near the top are giving thanks to those who made the weekend for me, Anne, and my parents. The Thanksgiving dinner at Anne’s was a triumph of organization, preparation and presentation. I […]

2002 10 15 tom Comments (0)

There’s an interesting Slashdot article this afternoon about the Canadian government moving online — creating digital certificates for all citizens to access their government files. One of the comments has a reference to a pgp keyserver at pgp.mit.edu that I should check out some time. I’ve always wanted a digital certificate. 😉

2002 10 12 tom Comments (0)

Saturday afternoon at Anne’s, in a kitchen full of great cooking smells. We’re preparing Anne’s annual turkey feast for a horde: 16 and a half (Maddy, not quite 1 year old). The bird has been named “Jean-Claude” and is roasting happily in the oven. A wonderful squash soup has been prepared with much toil, sausages […]

2002 10 12 tom Comments (0)