March 2005
Know Where Your Children Are?
So, it turns out that my father studies something interesting enough to warrant publication on Salon.com's newswire. He's a professor at the Atlantic Veterinary College and specializes in the world of sealice and farmed salmon. It's always interesting to see the topic picked up in the national (or …
Pumping Iron
I finally got a chance to watch Pumping Iron last weekend, which I've been meaning to see for ages. It's basically the story — which I use very literally — of Arnold Schwarzenegger's pursuit of his sixth Mr. Olympia title in 1977. Someone kindly lent me the 25th anniversary special edition of the …
Mexican in the Snow
Not able to be in Austin, Texas for SXSW this past week, it seems appropriate that I've managed to have a southern themed food weekend here in Toronto instead. • I just discovered El Trompo in Kensington market with some visiting friends yesterday. It's a delicious taqueria almost up to College …
One Step Closer
As of today, I'm one step closer to being a full-time mac user. I just bought a pretty little twelve inch iBook that I figure I'll be using about a third of the time in parallel with my Thinkpad. It's really nice having two quiet little systems that can share my desk with room to spare for all of …
NextMedia Festival 2005
Over the past few weeks, I've been working on designing the interface for the upcoming NextMedia International Interactive Media Festival that's going to be in Banff at the beginning of June. It's been a fun, if slightly ironic, project to be working on and the preliminary site was launched just a …
Wireless Code 10
Just a warning, this post is going to have little or no interest for almost anybody except hopefully for the few beleagured souls on the web who have suffered the same wifi problem I've been experiencing. I'm mostly putting this up here on the off chance that someone will come across it and find a …
You Pimped My Firefox!
According to its bling designers: "Pimpzilla is a theme for the browser Firefox. It's also probably the most tacky & overdone piece of GUI design out there, aimed solely for true internet-connaisseurs [sic]. If you are into fur and lot's [sic] of bling, this is the theme for you." The bejewelled …
Such Dizzying Heights
Via the venerable boingboing comes an absolutely incredible composite photo of Toronto taken from above the CN Tower. Squiggle (the photographer's Flickr name) compiled this shot of the whole downtown, waterfront, and environs from photos taken from the CN Tower skypod, 443 m above the ground …
Favourite Favicons: Nine
What the heck, here are a ton of additions to the favicon collection I started what seems like ages ago. There are some really stellar examples here. I just ran into the Hotwheels one tonight to top off the new additions at thirty and who would have thunk that everyone's favourite German …