(This article was also posted to Tucows Developer.)
Last night, the second Toronto
DemoCamp — a monthly series of meetings of
developers where they show the projects they’re working on — was held
at the offices of Radiant
Core in the “Liberty Village” area of town (the same
neighbourhood as Tucows). [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Jan
25
2006
Accordion City Geeks Gather at DemoCamp 2.0
Jan
25
2006
Interviewed by Canadian Press
Yesterday, Michael Oliveri from the Canadian Press conducted a phone interview with me about the election and Sam Bulte.
“So, judging from your blog, I take it that you’re pleased with the outcome of the election?” he asked.
“If you’re talking at the federal level, I wouldn’t say ‘pleased’. Maybe ’satisfied that the outcome was the least [...]
Jan
25
2006
Funniest Picture of the Election: "Spot the Liberal"
The picture below comes from Stephen Taylor’s blog — it’s a shot of strategists from the three major Canadian political parties: Susan Murray (Liberal Party), Brad Lavigne (New Democratic Party) and Sandra Buckler (Conservative Party). If I had to sum up the election results using only one picture, I’d use this one.
Jan
24
2006
Blogstravaganza This Friday!
The Preamble
Back in 1999 — this is the pre-accordion — I lived in a condo at the corner of Yonge and Carlton and sometimes got together with friends and friends-of-friends at Fiddler’s Green and talked over beer and pub grub. One particular night at the Green stands out in my mind: I think we all [...]
Jan
24
2006
Sideshow Bob Explains the Conservative Party’s Appeal
A couple of days ago, Damian “Daimnation!” Penny wrote a blog entry in which he speculated how various characters on The Simpsons would’ve voted in last night’s election. It’s an amusing read, and the comments range from the funny to the foamy (I suspect that that commenter is shopping for Asian mail-order brides and some [...]
Jan
24
2006
Sayonara, Sam
I’d like to thank my fellow voters in the Parkdale-High Park
riding for voting out Sam “Hollywood’s MP” Bulte and voting in Peggy
Nash.
Some of the credit should go to Cory Doctorow, Michael Geist, Ren Bucholz and the EFF/Online Rights Canada
and all the bloggers who
spoke [...]
Jan
24
2006
MARIJUANA PARTY LOSES AGAIN
God Answers Kathy’s Prayer: “Mmmmmmmmaybe.”
My occasional blog sparring partner, Kathy “Relapsed Catholic” Shaidle, wrote:
American readers can do their part by saying a quick (or not so quick) one for us, as today we have the chance to maybe, just maybe, turn around the doomed HMS Trudeaupia.
Perhaps a lot of people borrowed a line from St. [...]
Jan
24
2006
Oh Yeah, the Parties’ Colour Schemes
One more thing: American readers who may be following the election
(possibly my in-laws) may experience the same colour dysphoria that we
Canadians have when looking at colour maps of state election results.
That’s because the “red” and “blue” parties are essentially reversed:
Blue is used to represent the Conservative Party
Red is used [...]
Jan
24
2006
Voting in Canada, Explained
Time to Take Out the Trash!
“Time to take out the trash!” I said when I got home from work this evening. And because the nearest polling station to my place just happened to be in the lobby of our building, I did just that, after which I dropped off the garbage in the bulk garbage [...]
Jan
23
2006
ESRI/Bell Mobility Location-Based Services Seminar Next Week — Reschedule for the Afternoon! [Update]
Updated! The seminar’s been moved to the afternoon
(yaaaaay!). Read on for an explanation.
This was
also posted to Tucows
Developer.
Why ESRI and Bell Canada decided to hold a
developer seminar at 7:30 in the morning is a
mystery to me, but location-based services for cellphones (for example,
using your [...]
