Brring, Brring.

“Hello?”

“Hey, it’s me. Where are you?”

“I am in Niagara.”

“Oh.”

“Why?”

“I locked my keys in the house and I’m trying to find out who is closest. Clearly you are not.”

That was a phone call I got while we were on a day trip to the falls, to a winery, and to see friends.

Ian commented on my recent post about how I wrote a speech for someone to accept an award on my behalf. His comment reminded me that I hadn’t yet linked to his new blog.

Here it is: Integr8tif: Ian’s Innovation and Sustainability Blog

I write about how new opportunities can be created by changing how we approach problems and through the use of new tools, methods and ideas. I have spent considerable time working with communities in transition and helping NGOs and companies to find new strategies to create sustainable opportunities. My passion is in finding market-driven solutions that help people to improve their environment and communities.

The Record is reporting that the Waterloo Board of Governors rescinded the Radio Waterloo fee this week.

This week, the university’s board of governors rubber-stamped the cancellation of funding to CKMS-FM.

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The non-profit radio station has enough money to continue its operations until September, said station manager Heather Majaury. The station will do everything it can to keep running.

“I don’t think this is the end of the issue. I think it’s the beginning, to be honest. . . . There’s great hope the organization will survive.”

— Dark days for campus radio 3 Apr 2008

In some ways it is unfortunate, but the organization wasn’t serving students well, though students provided so much of its budget.

I am helping a friend with some patent work. The application got an “office action non-final” and we are working on the response, with the help of a lawyer. The language in some patents is funny. I guess they are written to be as general as possible but sill specific enough to get the patent. In one of the patents to which the office action refers it says:

The current time is provided by an internal time detector (e.g. a clock)