Last Day at HPX

Today is my last day as Executive Director of the Halifax Pop Explosion.

Sometimes when you are really close to something you don’t see it the way the rest of the world does, and you cannot see how you are seen to be related to it.

I have been gratified …


Various things

I am going to Toronto on Wednesday for NXNE. Woot! Buffalo Tom at the Shoe on Thursday the 7th.

HPX got our Service Canada grants. The program is a total farce, now. They are giving everyone what they got last year, with no actual oversight or review. Garbage. So much …


God Damn the "New Government of Canada"

Here comes the new boss... same as the old boss.

From: Waye Mason [mailto:waye@halifaxpopexplosion.com]
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 1:26 PM
To: Stephanie Domet; Phlis McGregor; Stewart Young; Carmine Klassen; Steven Cooke; Dean Lisk; Stephen Claire; Tara Thorn; alexa@hfx.eastlink.ca; Dawn Marie Sloane; Peter Kelly; Leonard Preyra; Maureen MacDonald; mikesavage@ns.aliantzinc.ca; sgee@hfxnews.ca;


Captcha, spam story, Helen Hill

Bad enough that my popexplosion email was getting 220 spams a day, but all of us here at wayemason.com have been horrified to start getting comment spam by the tonne. Now, I made it so I have to approve any comments, but that just meant I had 300 unproved comment …


Of Myspace, Politics, and other

Short bullet posts seem order of the day today.

* I am amused how many dear old friends are suddenly on myspace... when Ben and I created our personal and HPX pages everyone was younger than Ben, and he was 23 at the time. Then slowly the core mid to …