Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Imagine a hobby.
Imagine a game where you push little toy soldiers around on a table.
Imagine two people do this at the same time, it is a game.
Imagine one person wins and one person loses.
Imagine that sometimes a group of people get together and play several games to determine the big winner.
Now imagine several tournaments across [...]

Today is the day, Welfare Wednesday, it is estimated that several hundred thousands of dollars are spent on illegal drugs on this one day in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. I’ve been working down here for a while now so I’ve seen them come and go, but today there are even more drug dealers out than [...]

I work for a non-profit and recently I’ve learned that Google and Vertical Response offer in-kind grants to use their AdWords and mass mailing services respectively. We were already a client of Vertical Response using it to send out our HTML newsletter. I’m not sure we can use all the credits they are [...]

Apparently Microsoft has a new search engine called Bing.com, what happened to Live.com? Anyway people are apparently using it, I think I got a referral or two from it, but I get quite a few referrals, mostly from Google in various countries.
I tried it out on a few searches I care about: “Muskie McKay”, [...]

I was at City Hall again this morning, supporting W2 Community Media Arts Centre, representing BOB as my boss was off at the social venture institute.
Today was actually easy, it was all the time and effort people put in that got us to today. I joined the process about a year or so ago. [...]