The Farm — the blog I’m paid to write — has a
new, more sensible, URL:
The original URL, http://dev.r.tucows.com
will always work, but at least this one’s a little easier to
remember.
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Just asking
I have a couple of questions that are at least tangentially related
to issues being brought up during this, the federal election season
here in Canada:
- Education: Could somebody please tell me why standardized testing
is supposed to be a bad thing? Keep in mind that I’m not talking about
any specific standardized tests, but the actual concept itself, which
seems to get a number of people’s knickers in a knot. I’m actually
having trouble seeing why it’s as bad as the it’s-the-end-of-education
crowd (whose Venn diagram circle has severe overlap with the I-majored-in-underwater-basketweaving crowd) says it is. - Toronto Island Bridge/Bizjet airport: Could somebody please tell me why the island bridge, if built, would do more harm than good? (I admit that I bounce back and forth on the Island Airport issue from month to month).
Feel free to use the comments; that’s what they’re there for.
My co-worker and friend Scott Murff
— newest member of Tucows’ Research and Innovation group — turns the big three-oh today. In honour of
his birthday, his involvement in videogames and his fondness for Asia,
I dedicate this photo (which I found on HoopaJoop) to him:
Level up, yo! Clearly this is some secret level of Super Mario World that I missed.
Happy birthday, dude!
We’ll be celebrating his birthday tonight at the West Lounge Bar (510 King Street West, on the north side, just west of Bathurst). It’s a bit South Beach-y; this review says to dress up and be nice to the clipboard-carrying gatekeepers (who loved the accordion last time I was there).
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Story forthcoming
There’s a story behind this photo and its photo album that I’ll post a little later on tonight. In the meantime, go have a look at the album or enjoy the slideshow!
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APIs in Near-Obsessive Detail
Geek break!
Over the next little while, I’m going to be covering all manner of APIs
in near -obsessive detail. If you’re a programmer, I’m going to be your
new best friend. Watch this space for announcements.
Be sure to check out the blog I get paid to write — The Farm — where I’ve started to examine the classes of wxPython, starting with the humble wx.MessageDialog and Linus’ favourite debugging tool, the stdout/stderr window.
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Carnival of the Canucks #20
Not only is it the first of June, it’s also time for another edition of Carnival of the Canucks, a Canadian blogger-hosted festival of Canadian links!
This edition’s host is Jen at her blog, Circadian Shift. In it, she covers:
- The upcoming federal elections in Canada
- Food (including the battle between Krispy Kreme and Tim Horton’s)
- Insights and helpful hints
- and good ol’ Canada, including the fact that her Canada includes Accordion Guy (and Raging Kraut, too!). Thanks, Jen!
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Thank You
My thanks to all who sent emails and left comments about Granddad and his diary entries.
I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I did, and if it inspires
some of you to write your own personal decalogues and purpose-in-life
statements, even better.
To the nice young lady who yelled “My Canada includes Accordion Guy!” from a streetcar as it passed by: thanks! That made my weekend.