Well, this is nice: it’s a news release announcing my joining TSOT. It’s not 100% technically correct (we’re a team of Ruby on Rails developers, not PHP developers), but hey! I got a news release all about me! Whoo-hoo!
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Nov
30
2007
DemoCamp 16 — Monday, December 3rd
Sometimes it’s hard to believe, but it’s true: this Monday, December 3rd, we’ll be hosting the 16th DemoCamp at the Toronto Board of Trade (located in First Canadian Place). What started as a boardroom gathering of a couple of dozen Toronto-area developers showing their current projects to their peers has grown into the city’s [...]
Nov
30
2007
The Pug Factory
I know that I’m going to get angry letters from pug-lovers, but this comic was too amusing not to post…
Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Nov
29
2007
Vintage Ad Against Using Recorded Music for Movies
Back in the 1980s, I was a regular reader of Keyboard magazine. I always rolled my eyes at the two-page ad spread usually near the middle of the magazine that bore the headline “Don’t let them do DAT”, a campaign whose purpose was to keep DAT — that’s digital audio tape — recorders out of [...]
Nov
28
2007
The World’s Most Difficult Housemate
Craigslist is eating newspaper classfied ads sections’ lunches not only because it’s free, but also because you can write a really long classified ad. Instead of having to resort to shorthand, the way have to with newspaper classifieds like the example below…
WANTED rmmate for 2 bdrm 2 bath apt. No smkrs, pets ok. Avail Dec [...]
Nov
27
2007
Scenes from Day 1 at the New Job
The New Company
The “mascots” from the SororityLive and FraternityLive home pages. Party! Whoo!
My new company is TSOT, a little start-up specializing in social software. The company’s first products are SororityLive and FraternityLive, social software with special features for people in — you guessed it — sororities and fraternities. It’s pretty interesting software, and it doesn’t [...]
Nov
25
2007
Assrockets and Opportunities (or: Why I Changed Jobs)
Why I Changed Jobs: The Best Guess
A number of people have approached me — both online and in person — and attempted to guess what it was that made me consider leaving my Technical Evangelist job at Tucows, a job that I enjoyed and to which I was well-suited.
The person who came closest, a “long-time [...]
Nov
24
2007
Vanity License Plate Combos You Can’t Get in New York State
Here’s a list provided to me by my friend Miss Fipi Lele showing the combinations that you’re not allowed to get when applying for a vanity license plate in New York State.
The reason many of these are banned is obvious to me, but some I just don’t get. For instance, why isn’t 157A allowed? [...]
Nov
24
2007
The Problem With the “Buy Nothing Day” Site…
…aside from the fact that it promotes “Buy Nothing Day”, is that not only does it have pop-up advertising, but pop-up advertising for a chance to win a shopping spree in Paris:
Screenshot of the “Buy Nothing Day” site and its pop-up advertising. What a load of crap.
Critical thinking has never been a hippie strong suit, [...]
Nov
23
2007
Scenes from a Job Fair in China
Here are a couple of photos taken at a job fair in China that took place earlier this year. It’s no place for the crowd-phobic, and you’d better bring a book (or five) to pass the time:
Click the photo to see the whole set.
Click the photo to see the whole set.
[Found via Reddit.]
Nov
22
2007
Happy American Thanksgiving!
This is available as a t-shirt at Woot.com — click the picture to find out more.
I’m in the States celebrating American Thanksgiving (the Canadian version was last month) with the in-laws. Happy Thanksgiving to my American family, friends and readers, and if you’re deep-frying the turkey, be careful!
Nov
22
2007
He’s Not Clear on the Concept
A scene from the movie Coyote Ugly.
Coyote Ugly Saloon — the New York City bar that inspired the movie, which in turn inspired a number of franchise bars bearing the same name — is about to open a branch in Accordion City’s “Clubland” area.
The National Post reports that Don Rodbard, president of the King-Spadina Residents [...]
Nov
21
2007
Citizen’s Insertable Swiftness Manifest
Being the day before Thanksgiving, today’s a busy day at airports all across the United States. If you’re flying today, the Citizen’s Insertable Swiftness Manifest will guarantee that you’ll breeze through security*!
* Straight into the body cavity search room, that is.
Nov
20
2007
Conservapedia Obsessions
What are the readers of Conservapedia, the “conservative” answer to Wikipedia, most obsessed with? According to their stats page as of November 20, 2007 at 4:26 p.m. EST, the top 10 most viewed pages are:
Main Page [1,895,008]
Homosexuality [1,476,964]
Homosexuality and Hepatitis [516,039]
Homosexuality and Promiscuity [416,430]
Homosexuality and Parasites [387,291]
Homosexuality and Gonorrhea [327,815]
Homosexuality and Domestic Violence [319,852]
Gay Bowel [...]
