Toronto’s linuxcaffe is a great place to escape the cold and soak up the rays… well, more like metabolize the wi-fi waves. Combining coffee and computer code, the linuxcaffe is serving up a potent elixir for those partial to a tasty byte.

The salt of the earth and a pillar of the Annex computing community, linuxcaffe provides free wi-fi to the adjacent off-leash dog Park (available year-round but more user-friendly during non-tobogganing weather). Check it out, but don’t take my seat by the radiator

linuxcaffe is located at 326 Harbord Street (at Grace) in Toronto. Phone: (416) 534-2116. Email: contact@linuxcaffe.ca

Monday - Friday: 7ish to 11ish
Saturday: 10ish to 11ish
Sunday: 10ish to 5 pm.

“The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.”
- Andrew Carnegie

Ryerson University presents The Ethics of Intellectual Property: Copy Rights? as part of its Ethics at Ryerson Speaker Series (on Advertising, Branding and Intellectual Property Issues Across the Professions). Speakers are Marcus Bornfreund (CC Canada) and Susan Crean (Creators’ Rights Alliance). Please join us for this interesting and timely discussion!

Thursday, January 24/08: 12 - 1PM
The Arts & Letters Club
Ryerson University: 14 Elm Street, Toronto

Free Admission - Lunch Provided
RSVP to Joan Yolleck (416) 979-5000 x4194

Here’s another terrific poem from CC Canada Poet Laureate John Hoben. Early Spring: Meditation on Bare Alders can be found in the most recent issue of Inscribed: A Magazine for Writers. We are thrilled to republish it here under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence.

Early Spring: Meditation on Bare Alders
by John Hoben

With heavy hand
I am searching for that
one perfect sentence;

while over reticent alders
the sky is
still sleeping;

and, like a great
unseen
river flowing,

lulls me into
a deeper
calm.

Born and raised in Musgrave Harbour, a small fishing community located on the North East Coast of Newfoundland, John is currently a PhD Candidate in Education at Memorial University in St. John’s. Check out his previously blogged poems Salmon Falls, At Close of Autumn (for Li Po) and Banting Lake.