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Saturday, April 29, 2006
15:02 - Pigeons on the porch: A few more new pictures on Flickr....
Friday, April 28, 2006
10:28 - ...and now for some positive campus news: Come to Gert's for McGill's first annual Staff Appreciation Party,...
10:23 - Dave Shea's talk on CSS Project Management : Joe Clark has been doing a great job transcriping talks...
10:13 - More unrest on campus: Workers from a dozen McGill libraries, angry and discouraged with...
09:46 - Harvard plagiarist's book gets pulled. Finally.: Publisher to Recall Harvard Student's Novel: Just a day after...
09:32 - McGill pulls professor's site after posting Playboy pics : McGill prof Luc Devroye's website is offine. News is that...
Thursday, April 27, 2006
21:54 - Filed under "web sites I never thought I would need to look up": Toilet Tank Lids, Covers, Tops. One Thousand Used Replacements. Seriously,...
10:14 - The first YULBlog meeting: I just came across Mike's photoset of the first YULBlog...
10:00 - Free image editor for Mac OS X: Seashore is a free, open source image editor for Mac...
09:46 - New Canadian musician coalition : Canadian Music Creators Coalition. Their three (sensible, imho) guiding priciples:...
09:29 - Battlestar prequel: SCI FI Announces Caprica. Set 50 years before Battlestar. Cool....
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
21:54 - Reading diary: I've been remiss in keeping my reading diary up to...
21:36 - Testing station: Today I got to add another machine to my...
09:11 - Cornell students push for improvements: NYTimes: Cornell's Worried Image Makers Wrap Themselves in Ivy. In...
08:52 - Chocolate milk for grownups: A chocolate milk designed for adults! Neilson The Ultimate Chocolate...
08:49 - The expense of accountability: CBC: City to track employees by computer: A device, installed...
Monday, April 24, 2006
19:47 - Nothing is forbidden on Flickr:
11:11 - Three faces of human-computer interaction: Abstract: Human-computer interaction is considered a core element of computer...
09:16 - A bad experience gets worse: CBC Montreal: Expect long metro waits in coming years: MTC...
Sunday, April 23, 2006
19:33 - Flickr upload: I just uploaded a week's worth of photos to...
Friday, April 21, 2006
08:39 - Opportunities for web developers in Canada?: CBC: E-commerce growth continues; still a small part of total...
Thursday, April 20, 2006
16:45 - How to get Firefox/Mac to recognize tab index: I just spent the better part of an hour trying...
11:03 - Manhole cover:
10:58 - Mail.app ignores default browser setting: If I right-click on some selected text in Mail.app, I'm...
08:48 - The harmful rays of the Sun: Gazette: Catching a few rays just got riskier Sun worshippers...
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
14:20 - Terminal: I just caught myself scanning through a terminal command reference,...
13:31 - New Stephenson book not so new?: Yesterday while wandering through Indigo's I saw a book from...
09:19 - Seven hours in the car, each day: Cisco engineer gets prize for longest commute Mariposa resident Dave...
09:07 - : NYTimes: Germany Agrees to Open Holocaust Archive The German government...
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
16:52 - Glimmers of hope: No Free Lunch: We are health care providers who believe...
09:57 - Cleaning up the mess, we foot the bill:
09:52 - Downwardslide, continued: The Silencer (via Garret): The decline of Western civilization...
09:32 - Glad to hear it, wish I didn't have to: Prominent US Physicists Send Letter to President Bush: Thirteen of...
09:03 - Trading trees for condos: Gazette: Montrealers need room to breathe: The island's natural areas...
Monday, April 17, 2006
11:46 - Rusted wall:
Sunday, April 16, 2006
22:29 - Long weekend, BTW: I've been spending little time in front of the computer...
Thursday, April 13, 2006
12:58 - User-generated content:
09:07 - While not exactly role-model material...: Reuters: Child welfare agents clear Britney Spears. Their kid bumps...
09:01 - For-profit means just that: NYTimes: Google Chief Rejects Putting Pressure on China Many critics...
08:58 - Same idea, better tech: Bloggers running ads on their sites are the sandwich men...
08:35 - Sound preservation: CMS: Historians strive to save old sounds: With the help...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
11:25 - Firefox ads: Firefox Flicks. Created by fans. Of the three, Daredevil is...
10:11 - Thefts on campus: Thieves are a common feature of our campus, always...
09:38 - XMLHttpRequest now a W3C Working Draft: Dare Obasanjo (MS) notes that the W3C has published a...
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
22:10 - Word tricks: Me on Flickr: Mirrored text in Word....
09:44 - Photo flood: I uploaded a whack of new photos last night....
09:35 - Drug companies unethical? Say it ain't so!: Drug companies 'inventing diseases to boost their profits': "The practice...
09:28 - Installing Windows on MacBook Pro fixed some of the hardware problems: Ars: Heading off to Boot Camp: " For one, the...
09:13 - Calls to back away from paying out pensions: Gazette: Think tank calls for end to early retirement option:...
Monday, April 10, 2006
09:38 - When people you know become branding agents: My friend Chris, now a professor out at Dal, recently...
09:25 - Using VMWare for testing web development: I've been looking into the possibility of using VMWare to...
09:23 - News bits: Vista installed on a Mac Notes on soon-to-be-released MS Academic...
Saturday, April 08, 2006
15:44 - Work update: Looking back over the past few weeks of posts here,...
Thursday, April 06, 2006
11:43 - Getting close: This afternoon is the last class I'll be taking for...
09:02 - The cost of gold: NYTimes: With This Ethical Ring I Thee Wed: "Because most...
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
10:44 - Apple Boot Camp: Boot Camp is a utility that allows you to set...
09:45 - CSS Naked Day: Only on the index page, though. Details...
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
13:47 - Comparison of layout engines: This group of pages on Wikipedia is the only information...
10:53 - Garret has a bit too much time on his hands: Proof. :)...
09:16 - Gates' interest in CN: London Free Press: Bill Gates is top CNR investor: "Already...
Monday, April 03, 2006
15:16 - The role of communities of practice in the socialization of students to a profession: Here's the deck from my presentation at the Connections 2005...