Lazy Sunday
With us both coming off head colds, it was a lazy Sunday (except for the pancake outing and some grocery shopping). Afternoon naps, then home-cooked chili with fresh baguette followed by a bit of TV. I, Robot was on, and Damir watched it while I drifted around between kitchen and living room and office. I [...]
Fresh pancakes
On more weekends than not, Damir and I head down the block to Fresh on Spadina for brunch, which usually means their amazing pancakes. Not only vegan (which I don’t really care about), but macrobiotic (which I do): whole grains, no processed flour or sugar, and they taste amazing, truly the best pancakes that I’ve [...]
What’s in my sidebar?
I’ve had a couple of questions about how I create the sidebar to this blog, so thought that I’d document it here for posterity. First of all, I use the sidebar widgets WordPress plugin from Automattic, and a widget-friendly theme. After doing this for one blog, I would never again use a theme that didn’t [...]
Out come the long knives
Yesterday, in frustration at a post that I read by one of the mesh conference organizers explaining why they were yet another tech conference with no women keynote speakers, I wrote a post that parodied their unnamed reasons for this. I didn’t give a lot of background to this in the post, but it’s key [...]
WordPress 2.1.1 security hole
If you recently upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1, you might have a version of the code with a big security hole. WP recommends upgrading immediately to 2.1.2.
mesh: a conference by, for and featuring white men
Last year, there was a certain amount of noise about the fact that the mesh organizers managed to find only a tiny number of women speakers — 6 out of 50, or some such ridiculous ratio — and this year is not shaping up to be any better, with exactly zero women keynote speakers. It [...]
A bit of social unnetworking
In spite of my modified Skype description that has stopped most of the unsolicited requests for contact, there’s still a few morons who don’t get the message. I’ve decided to create a rogues’ gallery of Skype Scumbags on Flickr showing their requests; you can find the entire set (as it grows) here, and I encourage [...]
BPM blogging notoriety
I totally blew my blogging wad this week: 15,000 words in four days, which is some sort of record for me. With the exception of the previous post here about the Salton Sea that I did right after the flight to San Diego, all of it was for the Gartner Business Process Management (BPM) summit [...]
