A little more of London
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: A little more of London.] The first run of business today was food at Paddington Station. As it’s Sunday, not everything was open, and what few things were open weren’t …
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The Tale of the Missing Backpack
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: The Tale of the Missing Backpack.] As I wrote yesterday, my bag is missing. British Airlines didn’t deliver it along with myself to London, England, which has left me a …
London, and bag gone AWOL
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: London, and bag gone AWOL.] The flight out to London was great. Wow. I love British Airways — amazing service for an airline. So far above anything Air Canada could ever …
On five years at Critical Mass
Five years ago, I walked in the doors of Critical Mass, having basically no idea what I was about to get myself into. At the time, I wasn’t planning on being at Critical Mass that long. Chris and I had planned on going …
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On the passing of Pope John Paul II
I’m not a Roman Catholic. However, I will mourn the passing of Pope John Paul II. From a religious perspective, John Paul II had no direct influence on my life. John Paul II did not draw the line at religious direction. …
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How to get a web development job at Critical Mass
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 …
Give web developers respect
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 …
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Blogs as a content management system
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 …
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Google saves the day again
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 …
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Don't use br in your code
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 …