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Wednesday, May 31, 2006
14:37 - IE7 on Vista to be known as IE7+: IEBLog annouces that IE7 on Vista will be known as...
11:38 - Flickr: Montreal:
11:01 - Reading Diary: Steven Erikson's House of Chains. I've already started Midnight Tides,...
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
10:16 - Terrasses exempt from smoking ban: An article from today's Gazette notes: Even terrasses with canvas...
Monday, May 29, 2006
10:00 - Convocation 2006: Today, Nathalie and I convocated, both of us receiving our...
Friday, May 26, 2006
12:51 - Crossing bikepaths (Flickr):
09:55 - Amazon opens beta on two new stores: Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) notes that they have recently opened...
09:30 - An omen: CBC: Time stands still on Parliament Hill: The hands of...
09:22 - Bar owners' legal representation playing dumb: CBC: Bar owners gather for smoking-ban pep talk. There seems...
09:13 - Use of broken English reported: It struck me as odd (and amateurish) that this CBC...
Thursday, May 25, 2006
22:12 - RSS feeds weaken experience of the web: It struck me this evening that relying on my aggregator...
09:42 - Harvard's new school of engineering: Inside Higher Ed: The Technology Mosaic: Harvard this week announced...
09:18 - The black MacBook should have black accessories: I was watching this video of the MacBook at NYTimes.,...
09:08 - Time to revise library late fees: CSM: Is the lifting of library fines long overdue?. It...
09:01 - PM believes everything he reads in the paper: Globe: Iran summons Canadian envoy: The spokesman refused to say...
08:52 - PM wants to control the dialog: CBC: Harper says he's finished with Ottawa press corps: Prime...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
09:32 - A few links: Busy morning ahead, but here are a few notable links...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
22:05 - Parking:
14:11 - Opposition to Da Vinci manufactured: New Yorker: Hollywood Heresy: The Sony strategy, following the Sitrick...
13:01 - Ethanol production uses more energy then it creates: Cornell ecologist's study finds that producing ethanol and biodiesel from...
11:28 - Privilege:
10:32 - New ILL service at McGill Libraries: McGill students can now make use of Columbo, a web-based...
09:58 - Commercial Art from the 50's and 60's: Plan 59 is "a family-friendly Web site dedicated to the...
09:38 - Joe Clark on WCAG 2: To Hell with WCAG 2: In an effort to be...
09:02 - 9000 operations cancelled at the last minute: La Presse: 9000 opérations annulées l'an dernier à Montréal. What...
08:51 - High temperatures in the arctic: CBC: Scientists note stunning loss of Arctic ice, snow: Phillips...
Monday, May 22, 2006
21:33 - Lengthening the food supply chain: Why the chicken crossed the ocean -- twice (via Garret):...
20:35 - Dangerous Packaging: Wired News: Tales From Packaging Hell: The stubborn plastic casing...
20:19 - Long Weekend: Today is the first of the summer holidays. In Quebec,...
Friday, May 19, 2006
11:21 - Japan follows US lead in fingerprinting visitors: BBC: Japan passes fingerprinting law: Japan's parliament has approved a...
11:13 - ThinkPad/Lenovo PCs banned from classified US networks: BBC: US government restricts China PCs: The US State Department...
09:41 - Ars gives the MacBook 9/10: Ars: Apple MacBook : That being said, the similarities in...
09:12 - UN calls for US to close Guantanamo prison: BBC: US 'must end secret detentions': The US has maintained...
09:02 - Canada pushing to reform selection process for UN chief: Gazette: Canada wages lonely battle for UN overhaul: But no...
Thursday, May 18, 2006
12:50 - Raised Fire Hydrant:
11:50 - AiC reformed: Billboard: Guests Join Alice In Chains At Free Show. I've...
09:31 - Derek P. not impressed by MacBook : Back in Black: But the MacBook black is a flat,...
09:16 - Two more years: CBC: Canada's stay in Afghanistan extended by 2 years, despite...
09:11 - Students finding more ways to cheat: NYTimes: Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech. A...
09:00 - MacBook info from Apple.com message boards: I spent a bit of time this morning looking through...
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
23:00 - Macbook flakey finish: DailyTech:Black MacBook May Be Flaky, Literally: Some users report that...
22:32 - Before GameBoy...: There were handheld videogames!...
21:52 - John Siracusa on MacBook's glossy display: And we all shine on: Maybe you don't think glare...
21:38 - Note on Flickr design changes: My favorite change to Flickr's design (so far) is the...
11:23 - It's official!: Click image for details......
11:08 - New, stricter anti-smoking laws to be enforced: CBC: 'Undercover' inspectors to enforce smoking ban: Health Minister Philippe...
10:00 - MacBook first impressions: Macworld: Apple's new MacBook. Positive, and no mention (yet?) of...
09:40 - Flickr outa Beta: ... and into Gamma! Several changes to the interface, all...
09:33 - Perspective: Mother Jones (via Garret): A More Dangerous World? Think Again....
09:22 - The challenge of finding quality organic foods: CSM: As 'organic' goes mainstream, will standards suffer?: [While] some...
09:16 - Montreal's blue-collar workers feel picked on: Blue-collar workers feeling the heat: Drawing from a questionnaire sent...
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
12:45 - Macbooks replace iBooks: The MacBook looks nice, especially the black model. Looking at...
12:14 - Desk detail:
09:35 - Our burden: Filipino anger remains over reprimand of boy: The Filipino community...
Monday, May 15, 2006
13:02 - Must-have util for Windows switchers: If you are switching from Windows to Mac OS X,...
10:24 - The Dark Side of Web 2.0: Tim O'Reilly notes that the potential dangers asociated with Web...
10:13 - Shutting down comments on blogs: Via Karl: Blog et commentaires, l'ouvrir et les fermer?. For...
09:48 - On plagiarism: CSM: What is the price of plagiarism?. While I would...
09:26 - My new workstation: Click for notes....
08:57 - The Rules: This morning on the way into work, I passed by...
Sunday, May 14, 2006
23:26 - Quebec smog warnings: Watch this space!...
22:24 - Firefox 2 Alpha: Reading through this review of a recent Firefox 2 alpha...
22:13 - Memorable calculators: Click through for my story, and share your own....
Friday, May 12, 2006
15:45 - Comments may be on the way out: Today I've been getting a higher then usual amount of...
13:37 - Hal > DRI: Congrats to Hal on his new job! Always good to...
10:52 - Brin/Google does not like being taken to task: Nicholas Carr's describig an exchange that took place during Google's...
10:38 - Moving day, part 2: Today we're unpacking in our new office. I've got my...
Thursday, May 11, 2006
21:31 - Exploring Flickr: Photos tagged with trs80. Awesome! Does this picture mean anything...
21:19 - Flickr Update: I just finished adding a number of photos to...
21:15 - Moving day: Today was moving day at work. The movers started packing...
10:01 - Yahoo! on browser support: The Yahoo! Developers Network has a great article up describing...
09:16 - Nutbar arrested: Billboard percher surrenders to police Overnight, police pulled up a...
09:14 - Deal for new metro cars to be annouced soon: Bombardier gets metro deal: Economic Development Minister Raymond Bachand and...
09:05 - Forecast: Environment Canada predicting hot, dry summer for almost the entire...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
09:52 - Self-absorbed moron scales bridge: I have no patience for anyone who thinks that scaling...
09:45 - Upgrading the Mac: Dell 2007WFP 20-inch LCD: Another of my Mac updgrades was delivered at the end...
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
22:05 - Alex Bosworth on the potential dangers of Web 2.0: Alex Bosworth: Trust, Morality, and Software Services: It's possible, and...
20:42 - Before Web 2.0 was the Web Economy: From the archives: web > web economy bullshit generator" href="http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html">Web...
14:08 - Information on upcoming anti-smoking legislation in Quebec: The government site, Loi sur le tabac, has a lot...
10:10 - Headlines that make Steve Jobs cringe: CBC: Computer company beats Beatles' suit. Computer company!?! This is...
08:32 - Follow-up: Spammed at the source? : It does appear that the spam links that I came...
Monday, May 08, 2006
21:24 - Reading Diary: 84, Charing Cross Road: Last weekend, while browsing through "Britian", I came across a...
16:37 - Upgrading the Mac: Apple Keyboard: This morning my new mouse showed up. This afternoon, the...
11:41 - Spammed at source?: Click photos for details, and to offer a possible...
11:04 - Upgrading the Mac: MS Optical Mouse: The first in a number of pending upgrades to my...
10:38 - Serving up user-agent specific CSS: How difficult would it be to have functionality built into...
Saturday, May 06, 2006
23:05 - Thoughts on Slavery 2.0: I've been thinking about Karl's post on Slavery 2.0: Companies...
22:28 - ClearType works with Trinitron CRTs: Although I believe I mentionned this a while back, I...
Friday, May 05, 2006
10:11 - Karl ditches Flickr: In his essay titled Esclavage 2.0�: Eux, nous et moi,...
09:38 - Contemplating my next camera: I've started to think about replacing my current camera with...
09:29 - Video-game industry in Montreal seeking talent: Video-game executive calls for better links with cultural sectors. Bottom...
Thursday, May 04, 2006
09:37 - The risks of invoking the 80/20 rule: In a post on the principles of development, Karl takes...
09:05 - Problems with laptops in classes: Professors want their classes 'unwired': "As a teacher, you can...
08:55 - CBC ups its podcasting content : Although most of what is there appears to be "Best...
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
12:45 - If I wanted to go back to the command line...: After flipping through a few of the O'Reilly books on...
09:20 - Federal budget: Summary: Here's the summary of the federal budget for 2006 that...
09:03 - Doing the right thing: Publisher drops 'Opal Mehta', ends book deal The debut novel...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
10:40 - Credibility of academic journals questionned: NYTimes: For Science's Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap The journals rely...
10:32 - Lynx on Mac OS X: For some reason, I didn't think that the Lynx text...
09:54 - More on Google's Hypocrisy : Jeremy Zawodny, Google's Double Standard: However, if that's what Google...
09:46 - Henry Petroski on design failure: NYTimes: Engineering a Safer, More Beautiful World, One Failure at...
Monday, May 01, 2006
20:24 - Please bear with us: I'm going to be working on improving the XHTML of...
15:17 - CVS Update Working Copy - What those letters mean: At work, I use CVS through BBEdit to access our...
15:05 - Statistics Canada puclications now free: Last week, StatsCan made all of its publications available online...
09:11 - Google Hypocrisy: New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles: The new browser includes...