TransitCamp picked up by MSM
Last Sunday’s TransitCamp gained main-stream media coverage in today’s Toronto Star: …last Sunday’s Transit Camp, a day of out-of-the-tunnel thinking on how to improve the Toronto Transit Commission, specifically, its clunky website, its shelters, its subway cars and the way it communicates with its riders. The 100 or so campers were young, in their 20s [...]
Post Punk Kitchen
I was searching for a recipe using soba noodles tonight (I had mislaid You Are What You Eat and The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics, although I have since found them), and discovered Post Punk Kitchen, a vegan recipe site with a great recipe for Ginger Peanut Soba Noodles. I made it with almond butter [...]
Getting women into technology jobs
My post earlier this week about Alec Saunders’ sexist demo scenario at DemoCamp 12 (criticism that he took quite gracefully) led to both a blog post on his part, then an email and Skype discussion between us. The topic of our private discussion quickly turned to that of hiring women in technical jobs, with Alec admitting [...]
Rocketing to the airport
When I flew home yesterday from Jacksonville (where I’ve been blogging all week on my business blog about the ARIS ProcessWorld conference), I thought that I’d give the Airport Rocket a try. It’s TTC route #192, an express bus from the airport to Kipling subway; it only stops once or twice along the way and [...]
BarCamp for another generation
I was talking with a late-50′s American today about the whole BarCamp/TorCamp environment. “So why are you so excited about it?”, he asked. I fumbled around trying to find an answer that would fit his context, and finally came up with “It’s like the 60′s, only with results”. He seemed satisfied with that.
A mouse in the house
Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to go away somewhere nice and warm in the middle of winter. I’m off in Jacksonville, Florida this week, so ended up having a Skype text chat with Damir earlier today while I was between conference sessions: [10:24:29 AM] Damir says: caught a mouse last night[10:24:39 AM] Sandy says: a [...]
The Boys of DemoCamp strike again
Although not (I think) as bad as the incident at DemoCamp 9, I found a not-insignificant level of sexism in one of the presentations at last night’s DemoCamp 12: Alec Saunders of Iotum was demonstrating their Talk-Now service, and his demo scenario involved himself and three (presumably fictional) others: Frank, John and Jill. Frank, he [...]
Not bad for hotel DSL…
…once I got it to play nice with my firewall. Although the Flickr uploads of the magnificent ocean view from my window are going to be a bit slow.
I (heart) Seat Guru
The last few flights that I’ve taken, including the one to Jacksonville that I’ll be on in a few hours, I’ve taken advantage of the airlines’ web check-in. All of them are pretty much the same: I login to the airlines website, or use the locator/confirmation number on my reservation to call it up if [...]
