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A beginner’s guide to multitrack audio recording
Recently, ukulele pals Tony and David asked if I might be interested in putting together a little workshop, aimed at singer-songwriters, explaining the basics of multitrack recording, editing, and mixing. “The goal,” Tony said, “would be that someone who had never recorded before would be able to leave with enough confidence to make a simple [...]
Thou shalt not share
Earlier this year, I wrote about sharing WiFi with my neighbours through a small mesh network, and how glad I was that Teksavvy’s Customer Agreement & Internet Usage Policy doesn’t explicitly forbid sharing or redistribution. Well, that’s about to change. Effective May 1, 2011, Teksavvy’s instituting new “Terms and Conditions of Service” that (among other [...]
$2.99
Once upon a time, I was in a rock and roll band called The Canaries. This past week, Tristan found a copy of our first and last recording at the Value Village near Queen and Logan. I’m not quite sure how this correlates to fame and fortune.
Back to the Future
I’m a sucker for nostalgia, as evidenced by GRTTWaK. So, you can image my delight when Jenna sent me a link to a series of photographs by Irina Werning called BACK TO THE FUTURE: I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start [...]
Google algorithms use public usernames to link profiles
My CBC tech column this week is about new research from the French National Institute of Computer Science that looks at how using the same public usernames across multiple websites could lead to unwanted online profiling. The point of the research was to demonstrate that username profiling techniques are possible. Well, now they’re out in [...]
An animated Homer
The Compass (“The Newspaper of Trinity and Conception Bays”) has a lovely feature article on my pal Tristan Homer called An animated Homer: In his time with 9 Story Entertainment, Homer has been able to work on several popular shows, including Max and Ruby and Wibbly Pig. The latter was nominated for a Gemini Award [...]
Stranger Danger
One more reason not to talk to strangers, at least on Facebook. They’re launching a new feature called social authentication, and if your friends list is full of people you don’t actually know, you could be locked out of your account: Instead of showing you a traditional captcha on Facebook, one of the ways we [...]
Just plain Sackville?
I grew up in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fielding questions like: “Why Lower Sackville? Is there an Upper Sackville?” Of course, there are no fewer than three Sackvilles in Nova Scotia: Lower, Middle, and Upper. But now, Residents in the Lower Sackville area of Halifax Regional [...]
Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids 10
Four years ago, as a New Year’s resolution, I decided to host “an evening of drinks, laughs, and adults reading funny, sad, and/or embarrassing things they wrote as children.” That evening turned into a series called Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids. And in about one month’s time, we’ll gather for the tenth installment, [...]
PureText
If, like me, you’ve been driven to the brink of insanity by janky text formatting during a copy/paste manouver, you’ll appreciate PureText. It’s a tiny little Windows app that I’ve been using for the past few weeks on my CBC PC. Copy anything to your Windows clipboard, and PureText will strip all formatting: This includes [...]