The Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad

June 22, 2009

Click the table below to get a closer look at the table that tells you when it’s time to throw out those condiments. And yes, Hollandaise sauce doesn’t last terribly long.

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Happy Father’s Day!

June 21, 2009

Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there! May you never receive the Father’s Day present advertised below:

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All Che Guevara T-Shirts Should Have This Caption

June 19, 2009

Seen at “Diaper-eze”, a baby clothing store in Bloor West Village, in the west end of Accordion City.

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Hello from Ottawa!

June 17, 2009

 The view from my hotel room.
I haven’t been to Ottawa in 20 years. The last time, it was to visit a girl, and it ended badly. Every pedicab and rickshaw guy in town was in love with her and wished hot death upon me during my visit, and in the end, she decided that she [...]

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Ottawa Coffee and Code at Bridgehead This Thursday!

June 15, 2009

I’m going to be in Ottawa this week doing a presentation on web accessibility, so I’m taking advantage of my being there and declaring a Coffee and Code event for this Thursday, June 18th at the Bridgehead Cafe at 109 Bank Street (at the corner of Bank and Albert). It’ll run from 12:00 noon to [...]

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The “employment.nil?” Ruby Job Fair

June 11, 2009

This article also appears in my personal tech blog, Global Nerdy. Although the topic is about a job fair for Ruby programmers, I thought it would be good to post it here, as it’s a great example of grassroots community action.

One of the pillars of the Toronto developer scene is the Ruby/Rails community. They’re an [...]

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City Hall’s Badly-Photoshopped Family

June 11, 2009

Accordion City has a reputation for its great blend of different nationalities, races and cultures, and it’s one of the reasons I love this place. However, there are times when the folks at City Hall, in their well-intentioned attempts to be inclusive, seem to be trying a little too hard. Case in point: how the [...]

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There’s Still Time to Register for “Make Web Not War”

June 9, 2009

If you’d like to know more, see yesterday’s article about Make Web Not War. If you’d like to register, visit the registration page.

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Penguin Classics Deck Chairs

June 9, 2009

For the avid reader or literary poseur who likes to lounge outdoors: Penguin Classics Deck Chairs!

[Found via Jennifer Tribe.]

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I’m Serving Tea This Way From Now On

June 9, 2009

Photo courtesy of “supermezzo”.

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“Make Web Not War” in Toronto This Wednesday!

June 8, 2009

I’ll be at the Make Web Not War web development conference taking place in downtown Accordion City this Wednesday. For more details, see my post on Global Nerdy or Canadian Developer Connection.

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Oedipal Airlines

June 8, 2009

They ran some weird ads back in the late sixties and early seventies…
Click the ad to see it at full size. Image courtesy of “knutmo”.

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“employment.nil”

June 6, 2009

In case you’re:

a programmer who works with the Ruby programming language
looking for work
available to get down to Toronto’s “West Queen West” neighbourhood soon

you might want to do what I’m doing in a couple of minutes (as of this writing): heading down to the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West, at Dufferin) to [...]

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Fifty Reasons to Love Accordion City

June 5, 2009

For years, I’ve been singing the praises of Accordion City, which some of you like to refer to it by its nickname, “Toronto”. Yes, it’s a little short on the kind of attractions that make it a big tourist destination, but as my friend Cory Doctorow says: “It may be short on things that [...]

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The “Make Web Not War” Accordion Video

June 3, 2009

One of the nice things about my job is that they actually ask me to incorporate the accordion into it. Yesterday, we shot this video featuring me on accordion promoting the upcoming Make Web Not War event happening next week right here in Accordion City. Think of it as another of my contributions to Accordion [...]

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A Busy Day

June 2, 2009

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.
It’s a busy, meeting-filled day for Yours Truly down at the local headquarters for The Empire. Here’s a (slightly edited) photo that I took at our big Evangelism team meeting around 3:30 this afternoon:

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