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Monday, June 15th, 2009This is totally cool! I’m not a Twitter user, though I’ve been watching with some interest as it has become a huge social phenomenon. I think much of what it gets used for is a waste of time and clogs people’s mental space. But this is one time when I can’t help but say “praise […]
The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics
Monday, March 16th, 2009Written by the Computer Ethics Institute (whose website is now defunct), posted on the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) site: 1. Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people. 2. Thou shalt not interfere with other people’s computer work. 3. Thou shalt not snoop around in other people’s computer files. 4. Thou […]
Online community?
Friday, March 6th, 2009The first of my bi-monthly articles as Comment magazine’s technology columnist has been published online. This column’s focus is technology and community: http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/897/ There is no forum for commenting on articles there (ironic for a publication called Comment, eh?), but I invite your responses here.
The future according to Microsoft
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009A friend of mine collected several videos by Microsoft envisioning the future of technology. http://yapdates.blogspot.com/2009/03/future-according-to-microsoft.html There are some cool ideas there. I was intrigued to see that in Microsoft’s view of the future, people will still walk into a bank brank and interact with a human being when getting a loan. Handshakes are not a […]
Doing technology is Kingdom work!
Monday, December 29th, 2008I came upon a recent wall post on the “Christians in Technology” Facebook group: “For ‘Caesar’ I do server maintenance. For God, I am a Sunday School teacher.” I couldn’t let that go by without a comment. I believe that whatever we do in the world we do for God. Kingdom work is more than […]
The End of the Internet
Saturday, November 15th, 2008These are some of my favorite “end of the internet” pages: http://www.weirdity.com/internet/eoti.html http://mdesmond.com/end-of-the-internet http://www.endoftheinternet.com http://shibumi.org/eoti.htm http://home.earthlink.net/~thesandpit/misc/the_end.htm http://webnme.com/endoftheinternet.html
Serendipty
Saturday, November 15th, 2008My cousin, who is a librarian, recently sent me this quote from Annie Proulx: “I mourn the loss of the old card catalogs, not because I’m a luddite, but because the oaken trays of yesteryear offered the researcher an element of random utility and felicitous surprise through encounters with adjacent cards, information by chance that […]
Think Critically, Act Ethically
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Last week (November 3-7) was National Media Education Week in Canada. The Media Awareness Network, who organized it, posted this video to help publicize it: Here are some excerpts from their website: Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate – able to critically understand the nature, techniques and impacts of media […]
Discipline for the Technologist
Sunday, August 24th, 2008I am not sure whether there is an accepted generic term for those of us who have vocations in technology: programmers, web designers, games developers, software test engineers, database administrators, network administrators, IT managers, and computer geeks of all kinds. I will use the term technologists. Co-blogger Wan Phek How and I (both technologists ourselves), […]
A Prayer before Logging onto the Internet
Monday, July 21st, 2008Saint Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636) is the patron saint of computer technicians and Internet users. He was the Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades. A great scholar, he was the first Christian writer to compile a summa, or encyclopedia, of universal knowledge. It was cross-indexed, so it could be considered […]
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