Everyone's favorite dog, Tokkii, is now selling fantastic t-shirts for the ladies. Well, Tokkii's friend and provider of food and shelter, the lovely and talented Iva Olah, has started a small business making custom shirts.  •  Iva's making all of the shirts herself starting with American Apparel …

The title for this post has nothing to do with the band and everything to do with the heat. The only thing lamer than a weblog post explaining why one hasn't been posting on one's weblog is when the key excuse for such tardiness is the blinding heat. It's been over thirty degrees centrigrade now …

Almost a month ago, a mysterious pair of skis showed up padlocked to a bike post at the end of my street. They appear to be 1980s vintage alpine skis and have so far astoundingly survived unstolen through the hottest weeks of the year. So... I'm totally confounded. What the hell are these relics …

A kind visitor to this site brought it to my attention that the email address on the about page was returning all mail. I talked to our sysadmin today and low and behold someone had goofed up and one of the settings was incorrect. I'm not sure how long this has been the case, but I wouldn't be …

There's a hilarious CNN story today about a kid who figured out that he could trick his school-issued Texas Instruments calculator into converting decimals to fractions despite the fact that the function was meant to be disabled. Apparently the discovery has led to a massive recall to keep kids …

Please excuse the upcoming rant but it feels like it's forty degrees centigrade and I've had one in a long succession of bad experiences with Purolator deliveries.  •  Yesterday I received a call that the recall battery replacement from Apple for my iBook had been out for delivery but they were …

This past weekend I finally got to visit Algonquin Park for the first time. What an absolutely gorgeous part of Canada. I had anticipated an extraordinary wilderness park based on stories told by people I know who've visited, Group of Seven paintings, and by its reputation but it still outdid my …

Before I get this review of Dave Shea's book The Zen of CSS Design started, let me get an important disclosure and a shameless name drop out of the way as they kind of go together anyway. I had the good fortune of attending the FITC conference here in Toronto back at the end of April where Dave …

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 …