My old workplace, Tucows, is holding a job fair this Saturday here in Toronto. They’re looking for customer service representatives and tech support analysts to join the herd. Tucows is a great palce to work — I worked there for four and a half years as their Technical Evangelist, racking up a lot of valuable [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Mar
26
2008
b5media is Looking for a New Director of Technology
Farewell, Aaron
It’s official: Aaron Brazell, the Director of Technology for b5media (where I hold the title of Nerd Wrangler), is leaving to pursue other projects. When he joined the company, it was a startup literally operating out of a garage and running on shared hosting. We’re now a blog network of over 300 blogs with [...]
Mar
26
2008
New Accordion!
Photo by Sean Galbraith.
A couple of days ago, Sean Galbraith was cleaning out his parents’ house and came across his mom’s old Hohner Verdi IV accordion. She told him that it had one oiwner prior to her and she believes it’s from the early 1960s. She hasn’t played it in about 15 years and suggested [...]
Mar
25
2008
Metronauts!
Last year’s TransitCamp — an unconference where both citizens interested in Toronto transit as well as Toronto Transit Commission people could meet and discuss ideas and solutions — was not only a success; it also spawned a number of spin-offs, including similar conferences in San Francisco and Vancouver.
This year, TransitCamp returns under a new name, [...]
Mar
25
2008
Ding Dong: Good Pastries, Unfortunate Name
The Ginger Ninja and I visited Ding Dong Pastries and Cafe (in Chinatown, at 321 Spadina Avenue, just south of Baldwin) this weekend and were stunned by the prices: most of the single-serving cakes and buns are priced between 60 and 80 cents. We picked up a sesame ball, two tall “paper cup cakes” (sponge [...]
Mar
24
2008
Sex Scandal Cheat Sheet
Since it’s going to be a hellzapoppin’ election year in the United States, it’s likely that we haven’t seen the last of the political sex scandals as each candidate’s team is probably digging up dirt on the opposition. You might find Matt Bors’ little cheat sheet below handy…
Comic by Matt Bors.Click the comic to see [...]
Mar
24
2008
“The North Shall Rise Again!”
I love the differences between the cool-as-ice South Korean soldier (in blue) and the annoyed-as-Hell North Korean soldier in the photo below:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
(By the bye, why do all Communist armed forces look as if they shopped at the same second-hand store?)
Mar
20
2008
The Credit Crisis, in a Single Picture
A couple of readers have sent me email asking if there a more concise way of illustrating the “Credit Crisis”/”Subprime Meltdown” than the 23 comic panels in my earlier posting, The Credit Crisis, Illustrated. There is a single illustration that captures the essence of what caused the crisis, although it’s missing a lot of the [...]
Mar
20
2008
R.I.P. Paul Scofield
Click the photo to see the obituary.
A Man for All Seasons wouldn’t have been the same without you, big guy.
