saturday brunch with blueberry pancakes at the original pancake house. yum.

We had been meaning to update the appearance of our blog for a while, but since it also required upgrading WordPress, I kept putting it off. Today I finally got around to it–the technical side that is. The creativity part is obviously thanks to Sherwin. Hope you all enjoy the new look!

The following chart pretty much speaks for itself… it plots water usage in Edmonton two Sundays ago (Feb 28, 2010), during the Canada-U.S. Olympic gold medal hockey game (click image for link to article):

Many months ago I posted a video (here) by Clay Shirky, a very perceptive commenter on the social effects of technology. Yesterday I found another talk of his on a different topic: the idea that the challenge we face today is not so much “information overload,” but “filter failure.” That is, the problem that the internet introduces is not that we have too much information (since that problem has been with us since the printing press), but that it is tearing down the natural barriers that used to limit information flow (giving rise to the notions of ‘quality control’ in areas like publishing, and of ‘privacy’ in our personal lives).

The video is ~24 minutes. If you get a chance to watch it, I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts, especially regarding how the need to “manage information flow” (as he puts it) has affected your life.

like all other canadians, we were really excited to watch the US-Canada gold medal game on sunday. we had some friends come over for the game, and although they weren’t hockey fans, by the end of the game they were really into it, especially when US tied it up in the last 24 seconds of regulation.

feeling nervous.

victory!

goodbye olympics!