Webnoize is running a story entitled 'OpenNap Server Operators Challenge Canadian Copyright Law' and the teaser is:

Refusing to disable a web server that enables copyrighted music file sharing, two Ontario college students hope to inspire debate in Canada over how the government should handle online copyright reform...

My favorite line of the article is this Brian Robertson quote:

If our legal people didn't think there was copyright protection in that area, we wouldn't have sent the letter in the first place.

I beg you to find a reference to any Canadian law in their letter to us.

The article also refers to Canada's third world like copyright laws, and the fact that Canada has the highest per-capita use of file-swapping services.

The funny thing is that when the reporter called I just spouted off like I normally do and didn't actually think they were going to run a story.. But they did since one of the New York guys mentioned it during our meeting.
[8:44:18 PM]

Brad asks 'What dumb things do your parents want you to do?'. Where do I begin!?

• Buy the family's used Neon when it was in fact at one time mine
• Stop drinking so much when I don't drink much
• To never ever indulge in recreational drugs. Yummy E.
• To post better photos of them (you'll have to send me one Dani.)
• To save for taxes and/or buy the Neon instead of buying digital cameras

We watched Volunteers yesterday. It was weird. Hey! We should put that video we did in Grade 11 online! (Who has a copy still?)

Both Brad and Tracy weighed in our new online registration system. Don't even get me started on how backwards Canada's most innovative university really is. Okay a quick list:

• No 802.11b wireless network when Western has one
• Can't pay my tution online when I can at UofManitoba
• Can't view my transcript online when you can everywhere else
• We have iMac labs
• You have to use Telnet to use the co-op access system (thankfully I'm not in co-op).

Langeman pointed me to Save Your Site from Spambots which I'll be reading after work.

Time to get back to the long afternoon stretch when I'm at my most productive during a 9-5 day. I think though I'm actually most productive in the 6pm-2am slot but that wouldn't fit with the schedules of my roommates and girlfriend.

Last note, I've received lots of positive emails after posting our CRIA response to Pho. Seems like everyone wants someone to stick it to the man. Especially now that Napster has a deadline and Napster abandons .MP3 for .NAP.
[12:50:30 PM]

Rate my Professors @UW. Wow! I've gotta work so I'll more fully comment on this this evening. (Thanks to Nat for the link)
[11:44:02 AM]

Gotta get some work done so reviews and photos from the BNL concert (w/the new camera) will have to wait.

Re: Permalinks. You can link to each day, just look at the format for the calendar. You can also permalink to each entry. I'll try to fix things up so that it posts a handy link for you all (the old site had permalinks.. how did they disappear??)

Toronto just lost the 2008 Olympic bid to Beijing. I don't care too much because who knows where I will be 7 years from now. But really how many people will be executed from now till Beijing hosts the Olympics? Maeve's pretty distraught that it's gone to a dictatorship. Which dictatorship will get it next? Cuba?

Dutch company offers vibrators to customers who buy mobile handsets.
[11:03:34 AM]

So about yesterday's non-entry..

See we went out to a show and on the subway on the way home Natalie started to look for her key which turns out wasn't in her purse. Maeve and I also did not have keys. This meant that yes, all our keys were in our locked apartment while we were not. Once back at the apartment we tailgated in and checked out the sign on the super's door which reads 'locked out?' which we had all seen but hadn't read. Basically the bottom line was that they could let us in but were under no obligation to do so! Now this super wasn't on duty but the one in the other building, 40 Alexander, was. So we went over there, tried his buzz up which told us that if it was 'an emergency' we were to knock on his door (first we had to wait to tailgate in). Is it an emergency being locked out of your apartment? 'Specially when they're under no obligation to let you back in?

While Natalie waited for someone to let her in the building I went to the Mariott to discover it was $140/night! Not good. But in the meantime Natalie had woken up the super and they were on their way to letting us in. On the way he told us that the locksmith they recommend for when you get locked out costs $130 for 'emergency' service!

It's interesting that losing a key could prove to be more expensive then losing your cell phone.

So that was our adventure.

Prior to it we had gone to see a Douglas Coupland play adapted from his book Life After God with Angie and her friends. The play was okay but aimed at people 10 years our senior (the real gen-x'ers). After the play we went to the Victory Cafe for a pitcher then to a sushi place for some raw fish (check out Sticky Rice).

Now it's back to work. And why hasn't Jonathan posted anything lately!?
[9:50:04 AM]

Some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are online. I never really thought about the amount of questions the weblog generated till today when I actually reflected upon it and noticed I got 4 today. Email me if you have any (or just want to spam me).

My camera is on it's way from Alberta. It was a bit of an ordeal since I had to fax them and I have neither a printer or a fax machine here (I do have a scanner) and neither Natalie, Aimee, or Mark could assist me.

Hey Angie! :P

Oh, and someone complained about the white background. Is it really too white??
[9:06:22 PM]

A new vice: Getting addicted to on-line auctions (via The Globe). Now if only I could get people so addicted to my (money making websites) that it'd cause relationships to fail and cities to fall.

Darryl pointed me to a rant he wrote on Spam: Spam, Spam, And (You Guessed It) More Spam. His proposed solution is sending back a bounce message. One of my friends Keith does that but I think the problem is that for the most part spammers are abusing open relays in which case they probably don't take note of the bounces. What we need is a reverse p2p spammer. It'd search out some valid contact info in the spam like a URL, email, or phone and then notify all 10 million of you buddies who procede to spam them the hell back.

This was also my first time on Darryl's personal site. Of course it shouldn't surprise me that he has his own vanity dot.com (instead of www.myownfunkylittlecorneroftheweb.com) because he's just like I am and probably more so than I realized.

He does the cottage thing, wakeboards, is a dot.com fanatic, big pho follower, but what most surprised me the most is that he wants a 29er. Well Darryl if you ever do find your 29er and need skipper (you're probably a skipper though) give me a call. I've been drooling over the 49er and 29er ever since they've been introduced. I'd also settle for an International 14.
[9:17:57 AM]

I'm going to start a frequently asked questions list. So send your questions in.

The other day I posted my @transpose.com email on this page. It's never been posted anywhere before and low and behold today I received spam for both it and mgoyer@fairtunes.com.

Now the other day John raised the point of 'imagine if 50% of the time you answered the phone it was a telemarketer'. Or even 75% of the time. You'd good stark raving mad and stop answering the phone and society would revolt. Now why doesn't that happen with email? Our contact@fairtunes.com receives about 5 spams for every legitimate email. It's out of control!

CmdrTaco once suggested that we charge to receive spam. $1/spam. Or something akin to postage for paper spam. That way the average person would be making about $200/month. That'd be enough to cover our co-lo fees!

Actually there's some e-gold thing out there that gave you an email address except you'd only receive an email if someone paid you a set amount in gold first. Would you pay a penny to email me so that I would never get spam again? I doubt it. But then we could setup some arrangement so that I'd just refund the money to you.. Hmmmm.

BTW, I hate forwards.
[11:43:02 PM]