Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

Once again SOLEfood was in the Vancouver Sun as they announced they were building a new larger urban farm in a much more visible  location than Hastings and Hawkes. This is of course good news to see on Twitter and main stream media. I was involved during the gestation period of the project that became [...]

I didn’t bring my cord to upload my pictures from my iPhone but if you hustle down you still might be able to get free coffee!  Apparently I was the first person to order a Cafe Mocha from the barista on duty.  I see some other bloggers and W2 supporters, even saw a City Planner [...]

So sometime in the last 24 hours a Tweet appeared on my phone from one of Vancouver’s more famous writers talking about a tool released by Edelman.  It so happens I know some people who work in the Vancouver office as the non-profit I used to work for actually had them as advisors on some [...]

Although I took the time to write an entire blog post on open source software, I realized I posed several questions, which I didn’t bother answering.  They weren’t exactly rhetorical, they were examples or at least indicative of the questions I’d been asked regarding open source software in job interviews. Remember I’m still unemployed! Despite [...]

Last night I went to Net Tuesday‘s event. It was good and very well attended, but none of the speakers addressed how locational based services (LBS) could be used for social good. The speakers talked about how locational based services can help you find a restaurant or a cafe, plan a meeting, better enjoy a [...]