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Chris Campbell

Canada Day, 2009
Chris Campbell on Mon 06 Jul 2009 at 12:28 AM
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Thoughts on BC-STV referendum
Chris Campbell on Wed 13 May 2009 at 1:53 PM
I have voted in every federal and provincial election for which Ive been eligible. Each time I have voted for the same respective parties. And my vote has NEVER resulted in a seat being won, or had any
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Mind and Consciousness: Is it possible to design a machine with mental capacities
Chris Campbell on Tue 24 Feb 2009 at 2:21 PM
I wrote this essay in December 1998 for PHIL342a: Minds and Machines, an excellent course taught by Prof. Charles Morgan that I took as part of my undergraduate degree. Im now blogging it for posterit
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Batch image scaling with Gimp
Chris Campbell on Mon 16 Feb 2009 at 11:56 AM
Im currently working on a portfolio website for my dads paintings.  He gave me a ton of hi-res images that I needed to scale down to a maximum dimension of 400px.  I wrote this Gimp script to help au
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W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking
Chris Campbell on Tue 20 Jan 2009 at 11:50 AM
Last week Flock sponsored the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, and I had the honour of attending on behalf of the company. The purpose of the 2-day workshop was to help det
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Batch processing video frames with Gimp: A Scanner Gimply
Chris Campbell on Mon 05 Jan 2009 at 9:47 AM
This weekend I got the latest version of Gimp running on my Mac, and started playing with some of the artistic filters. I came across a combination that results in a look somewhat reminiscent of look o
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Playing with Gimp 2.6
Chris Campbell on Sun 04 Jan 2009 at 11:08 AM
I upgraded to the latest version of Gimp yesterday, and started playing with some of the artistic filters.  Here are the results of some messing around with Cubistic, GIMPressionist and edge detection
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STOP using your credit cards online — secure websites are no longer secure as o
Chris Campbell on Tue 23 Dec 2008 at 9:34 AM
Until today, doing online banking or using your credit card to make purchases online was generally safe as long as you made sure that the website was using https (rather than just http) and you knew a
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A White Almost-Christmas
Chris Campbell on Sun 21 Dec 2008 at 9:01 AM
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Another couple of beauties. Let me know if this gets boring…
Chris Campbell on Thu 20 Nov 2008 at 10:30 AM
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Happy Halloween!
Chris Campbell on Fri 31 Oct 2008 at 11:30 AM
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Winter daylight
Chris Campbell on Thu 30 Oct 2008 at 2:03 PM
One advantage of our shortened winter days in the Great White North, I get to be awake for some spectacular sunrises Blogged with the Flock Browser
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