It’s the first Friday of October, which means that it’s Catmas again! Catmas is the day on which you’re supposed to post pictures of cats — any cats, they don’t have to be yours — to your blog.
Want some funny cat pix? Go check out the official site of Catmas, Catmas.com!
I’m going to be tied up with an ICT Toronto meeting this afternoon, so there won’t be much blogging here until the evening. In the meantime, can I point you to the Catmas blog?
Over at the Tucows Blog, there’s a podcast in which I chat with Bill Ford, Tucows’ Director of Billing Services, about the upcoming version of Platypus, our billing and invoicing software for web hosting providers and internet access providers. If you’ve got a web hosting company or ISP and you need a good billing solution, this is the podcast for you!
Don’t forget that this Friday is the holdiay to celebrate that most bloggy of blog activities: posting pictures of cats on your blog! Join us in the fun!
For more about Catmas, go check out the holiday’s official site, Catmas.com.
In this age of laser printer and computer typography, it’s important to understand kerning — the spacing of characters in a proportional font. Otherwise, unintentional gaffes can arise:
(Thanks to dreamattack and Miss Fipi Lele for the photo!)
Remember, Catmas is this Friday! If you have a blog, that’s the day on which you are obliged to post a picture of a cat on it.
If you feel the need to be inspired or just want to see funny cat pictures, go to Catmas’ official site — Catmas.com — right now and learn about the dangers of overfilling the kitty litter box.
I work in the part of Toronto called “Liberty Village”, an area made up of old warehouses, most of which have been converted into offices and living spaces. It’s where Cory Doctorow last lived before he moved to San Francisco back in 2000, countless television shows and feature films have been shot here (the upcoming Hairspray movie being the latest), a number of high-tech and television and radio facilities are located here, and let’s not forget the “Porn Alley” designation given to the area by a hyped-up Dateline NBC report. It’s rapidly becoming one of those former factory neighbourhoods turning into live/work/place-to-go areas. One parallel that comes to mind is Vancouver’s Yaletown.
This neighbourhood is located a good distance away from Accordion City’s “clubland”, and a dimly-lit railroad underpass and a little-travelled stretch of Dufferin Street bordering on Parkdale (which still is contending with its seedy rep) separates it from the nearest evening destination area, the Drake Hotel/Gladstone Hotel zone. As such, it’s an unlikely place to put a club, but that’s just what happened: there’s a queing-up area, complete with permanently-mounted outdoor heaters, that leads to the entrance of a newly-renovated building at the corner of Liberty and Fraser streets:
The club has no signage just yet, but a laser-printed sheet of paper that read “MARO DELIVERIES HERE” suggests that its name is “Maro”, and a little Googling confirmed the name. Apparently, it had its grand opening last Friday, with the Fifth Annual Booby Ball taking place there.
According to a recent events listing, the people behind Maro were also behind Brasaii, Brant House and West (I’ve only been to West). These are all pretty upscale places, and from the looks of Maro’s front entrance, it’s catering to the same market:
It’s an interesting addition to the neighbourhood. I wonder its being located in this neighbourhood is an attempt to duplicate the “Meat Packing District” club scene in New York. I’ll have to drop by one evening and see what it’s like inside.