- Outsourcing war
Wednesday 24 September 2003
\<!\[CDATA\[This is a bit scary – the globalisation “companies are evil” crowd will love this one: Private military contractors are being hired to support American troops in Iraq.
- Free phone calls at Dartmouth
Wednesday 24 September 2003
From Slashdot: After upgrading their network infrastructure and doing some testing over the summer, Dartmouth University is making free voice over IP available to incoming freshman .
- Like a horse
Wednesday 24 September 2003
Eric just gave me a great testimonial on Friendster – now if only more people knew what he knows.
- Cardboard computer
Monday 22 September 2003
My friend Pat Griffin built [cardboard computer](http://www.backwardsfish.com/japan/cardboard.html) – although “built” might not be the right word.
- Finding Nemo
Sunday 21 September 2003
Sydney is really beautiful (obligatory Melbnian comment: yeah but it’s expensive and the people aren’t as nice).
- Guess who didn’t win the sandcastle competition?
Saturday 20 September 2003
- Whoops.
Friday 19 September 2003
Maybe they didn’t do anything bad [after all.](http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1063836612213&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154) If this was [Fark](http://www.
- Canada’s number 3
Wednesday 17 September 2003
Here’s something I already knew. Canada is #3 in the world in terms of broadband penetration , behind only South Korea and Japan.
- Not as dumb as it sounds
Wednesday 17 September 2003
So some guy has invented a glow in the dark lightbulb Right, okay, before you start making bad jokes, think about it a minute, gentle reader.
- Daddy longlegs
Tuesday 16 September 2003
> This is a genre-joke. It’s a Canadian gay joke. If you’re one or the other you might get it.