It’s been ten months to the day since I married Wendy, which means that it’s time for me to post another sappy photo and take her out to dinner tonight. Happy tenth month-a-versary, sweetie!
Category Archives: Announcements
Auction for Tickets to the Biggest Charity Party in Town, Featuring Burton Cummings
July 24, 2006 – 3:51 pm
If you’ve got more disposable income than I do, like good ol’ rock and roll, parties and charity events, here’s an interesting thing to do this Saturday: Bridle Bash II, featuring Burton Cummings.
Bridle Bash II is a charity event/pool party held in someone’s back yard. This isn’t just any old back yard, but one in [...]
DemoCamp 8: Tuesday, July 25th at No Regrets
July 20, 2006 – 7:49 pm
We apologize for the short notice, but we’d like to announce the next DemoCamp, which will happen next Tuesday, June 25th at No Regrets (42 Mowat Avenue, not far from King and Dufferin).
As of this writing, the scheduled presentations are:
WildApricot - Web-based software that automates daily administrative routines for associations and non-profits.
Slot Available - Got [...]
I’ll Be Posting Later Today
July 19, 2006 – 5:25 pm
I’m at a geek workshop today — the “How We Built Flickr” workshop — so I’ll be posting later today. Now get back to work!
Tucows/Serious Magic’s "Cow Tipping Contest"
July 13, 2006 – 6:48 pm
(This article also appears in Tucows Farm.)
It’s a Contest!
The company for whom I work, Tucows, and Serious Magic, a company that develops video communication software, have joined up to launch a contest called “Cow Tipping”. Contest participants have to create a tutorial video on their favourite software, hardware or web service using Serious Magic’s Vlog [...]
Just So You Know…
July 13, 2006 – 4:26 pm
…the blog’s going to look a little weird for the next couple of weeks as I retool it a bit. I’ll make sure it’s still readable.
Mush Happens Tonight!
May 17, 2006 – 12:02 pm
Tonight’s the night! Mush, the follow-up drinkfest to the Mesh conference, starts at 7 p.m. at The Monarch, located in the heart of Little Italy at 12 Clinton Street. Never mind “Pinko Marketing” — this is “Drinko Marketing”!
After "Mesh" Comes "Mush"
May 12, 2006 – 4:49 am
You’ve got to hand it to Accordion City techies. Whether it’s DemoCamp, BarCamp or the Mesh conference, we can organize a great high-tech event in very little time. Now one of us — “Captain Pete” Mosley, whom I know from my days at Mackerel Interactive Multimedia — has put together a parody event: Mush: The [...]
BarCamp Toronto: Saturday May 13th and Sunday May 14th
May 9, 2006 – 3:32 pm
More high-tech goodness from Accordion City: BarCamp Toronto takes place from Saturday noon-ish to Sunday noon-ish. I’ll write more, but in the meantime, go check out David Crow’s blog entry and the BarCamp wiki. It’ll be a cool geek gathering, so as I like to say: be there and be square!
Toronto Ruby Users Group Hackathon Tomorrow
May 5, 2006 – 7:07 pm
The Toronto Ruby User’s Group is having its first Hackathon tomorrow at the Tucows offices. Tomorrow’s goal is to implement the functionality of libarchive and libtar as both a pure-Ruby version and as Ruby/C bindings to the libarchive and libtar libraries.
The hackathon will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Tucows offices [...]
