visual laurel

a nearly full moon…

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:11:54 -0400

a nearly full moon…

spring evening

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:10:36 -0400

spring evening

Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor)

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:00:20 -0400

Tree Swallow

(Tachycineta bicolor)

Nothing like a relaxing garden … Walkerbrae House, Guelph,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:05:13 -0400

Nothing like a relaxing garden …

Walkerbrae House, Guelph, Ontario

Uptown Waterloo geese are famous for nesting in and around the...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:35:56 -0400

Uptown Waterloo geese are famous for nesting in and around the University of Waterloo. in the springtime. With such im-peck-able credentials it isn’t surprising to find them heading on over to CIGI

urban goose

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:27:18 -0400

urban goose

meow

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:24:44 -0400

meow

antique camera

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:20:54 -0400

antique camera

Bleeding Hearts My favorite spring flowers

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:19:20 -0400

Bleeding Hearts

My favorite spring flowers

barbed wire

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:16:54 -0400

barbed wire

3-D Printer at work on display at the Kitchener KWArtzLab...

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:15:51 -0400

3-D Printer at work on display at the Kitchener KWArtzLab makerspace

Feeding the plastic filament into the 3-D printer

Tue, 14 May 2013 04:12:19 -0400

Feeding the plastic filament into the 3-D printer

red winged blackbird

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:49:08 -0400

red winged blackbird

Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. Ontario’s Information and Privacy...

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:41:34 -0400

Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D.

Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner delivered the keynote speech “Access by Design - Time To Change the Paradigm” at the GO Open Data Conference in Kitchener, on May 11th, 2013.

Cavoukian has been working to promote the idea that privacy for individuals must be the default, and has introduced Privacy by Design to promote personal security and protect citizens from Surveillance By Design.

Although Dr. Cavoukian advocates for open data, I couldn’t find much in the way of free culture photos of her floating around the Internet. I’ve rectified that deficiency by uploading this image to the Wikimedia Commons, and posting it on her Wikipedia page. I’ve more photos of Ann Cavoukian and other GO Open Data presemters I’ll be posting on visual free libre over the upcoming weeks.

“Freedom and liberty are predicated on privacy.”...

Mon, 13 May 2013 02:31:48 -0400

“Freedom and liberty are predicated on privacy.”
~Ann Cavoukian
Privacy Commissioner, Ontario

Mamma Mourning Dove …sitting on the nest she’s built...

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:49:48 -0400

Mamma Mourning Dove

…sitting on the nest she’s built in the wall hanging planter.

Mourning Dove eggs I didn’t mean to startle the mamma bird...

Thu, 09 May 2013 02:47:00 -0400

Mourning Dove eggs

I didn’t mean to startle the mamma bird …

After I moved away she came back to keep her eggs warm.

A Mari Usque Ad Mare Canada’s coat of arms: a frieze on...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:05:54 -0400

A Mari Usque Ad Mare

Canada’s coat of arms: a frieze on the Federal Building, Kitchener.

photo by laurelrusswurm released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

…as close to outside as possible…

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:23:04 -0400

…as close to outside as possible…

Springtime Victoria Glen is a tiny forest preserved inside the...

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:18:20 -0400

Springtime

Victoria Glen is a tiny forest preserved inside the southern Ontario town of Elmira. It is only a few short blocks away from an elementary school and the downtown core.