Where you will find my (documented) thoughts, worries, concerns, and issues
Recent writing
For the last two nights, Critical Mass has run what are effectively recruiting job fairs over at the Roundup Centre. They’re weird things. We’d done them before when we were recruiting for a planned move to Toronto …
I cannot praise Jeremy Zawodny enough for having posted a very concise POV on respect for web developers. It’s not like we’re a collection of haphazard Rodney Dangerfields — we’re just largely ignored. Web development …
As if it’s not enough that Google Desktop regularly saves my heiny by finding long-lost files (I mean, really, why is it that Microsoft created two My Documents directories in XP, and then seems to randomly choose …
I’ve been blogging for a number of years now, going at it hand-to-hand combat style until about a month ago, when I took the bold leap to using WordPress. The decision to switch was made for two reasons. First, I was …
Many years ago, I was turned onto XHTML. Admittedly, without a full understanding of why. At the time, I was hardly in a place to object or complain, and did as I was told. In the years since then, I’ve come to …
Speaking of bugging, I ran into Molly again as I left Dave Bowman‘s presentation for lunch. (I swear Molly, I wasn’t waiting in ambush for you!) I had meant to ask her this question before Dave’s presentation, but we …
Physicists in New York working on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have created what they believe is a minature black hole. For the record, this wee beastie lasted 10 million, billion, billionths of a second. …
When someone decides to stay away from a defined direction, ignoring both precendence and the collective good, they are considered to have gone rogue. Microsoft, bastion of monopolistic behaviour in the software world, …
Today, early in the morning, JetsGo pulled the plug. I’m not surprised, really. They were an okay airline, not unlike WestJet, but they didn’t have the following WestJet has. (There’s Deadheads, and then there’s …
The dinosaurs died off because they couldn’t adapt. They couldn’t evolve fast enough to cope with a rapidly changing environment. As a result, “dinosaur” is often an apt description for any entity unable or …