guest post: Zagga Entertainment: Descriptive Video… On Demand

editor’s note: the following is being reposted with the permission of the original author. Zagga Entertainment: Descriptive Video… On Demand By: Kevin Shaw Remember the scene in Moulin Rouge where Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman sing to each other on top of the elephant? Or that amazing chase sequence through the subway in the Italian … Read more

a response to my dropbox support ticket about accessibility.

The following is the response posted to my support ticket e-mail to dropbox yesterday. From: David M. – Dropbox Support Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:28 AM To: Shane Davidson Subject: Dropbox Support – Re: interface changes do not always mean accessibility. ## IMPORTANT ## Text below this line won’t be added to the ticket … Read more

an open letter to dropbox, interface changes don't always mean it's accessible.

update: a response was received on March 14, 2013. as a longstanding user of dropbox, I’ve grown to love it, from it’s ease of use, to it’s support on so many platforms, windows, mac, android, and iphone. So when 2.0.0 was early released and put up as the perminant stable download I thought nothing of … Read more

everything explodes, and doesn't take customers with it. and other unrelated things.

I no how to blog? apparently, I do. If your smart, you’ll have noticed that thing that your reading and some of it’s associated services, hey zoe? you actually no how to update? miracles! Wait, I can’t actually talk because I’ve been lazy about updating this thing, more on the how and why in list … Read more

Squeeze" based Debian Edu version released

This scrolled across my desk thanks to a list. This may be of interest to some. Subject: “Squeeze” based Debian Edu version released Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:50:22 +0000 (UTC) Resent-From: [email protected] Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:49:01 +0100 From: Francesca Ciceri To: [email protected] ———————————————————————— The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ First “Squeeze” based Debian Edu … Read more

you didn't want the public to know that you can't manage your own networks?

As someone that’s been watching the rogers vs crtc go round and round since october, 2010, it came as no surprise when the following story rolled across my desk. CRTC Slaps Rogers for Throttling Non-P2P Traffic Posted by Jason Koblovsky on Saturday, January 21, 2012 – 01:38 January 20, 2012 – The Canadian Gamers Organization … Read more

the demise of qwitter: put into perspective by a well spoken blind individual.

Hello all; All of you may have heard about the demise of the qwitter project developed and maintained by christopher If not. I’ll simply quote the qwitter_hg twitter accounts last post. Qwitter Mercurial: Q: Closing up shop, it’s been fun.: 13 hours ago 9/19/2011 11:08:07 AM Qwitter Client after reading that, I got curious and … Read more

Why is that news article choosing this evening to roll across my desk?

Well ok. My floor. Since I don’t have a desk to speak of at this current time. . You know, because give it a few days and I won’t have a place to live. But we already went over that earlier. So let’s just um, go down here, use my limited web design skills, and … Read more