Bookmarks for November 28th
These are my links for November 28th: A city that thinks like the web, slides + audio « commonspace – Great news for participatory government in Toronto: a promise to open up TTC data and other good stuff, from the Web 2.0 summit at City of Toronto earlier this week. Games at Sporcle.com – Waste [...]
Canadian Blog Awards
Tomorrow is the last day to vote for my business blog, Column 2, in the Sci/Tech category of the Canadian Blog Awards. Get over there and vote!
WordPress 2.7
I’ve just installed WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 on this site, as a test before I roll it out to my business blog. If you see any weirdness with it, please let me know by adding a comment.
Bookmarks for November 20th
These are my links for November 20th: Red Rocket for the iPhone – Only as Good as the TTC is at Staying on Schedule – Some tips on using the Red Rocket iPhone application (I love this app). I really wish that BlogTO would publish full feeds; I was reading this on a plane last [...]
Toronto’s Yesterdays
My friend and neighbour Doug Taylor has just finished his latest book about the history of Toronto, There Never Was a Better Time: Toronto’s Yesterdays. It covers the history of an immigrant family in Toronto during the 1920′s, a dynamic time of urban expansion in the city. Doug is doing a reading from the book [...]
Bookmarks for November 13th
These are my links for November 13th: CanLII – Canadian Legal Information Institute – Search publicly-available Canadian court documents online.
Lest we forget
Today, my father — a World War II veteran who turned 84 two days ago — will march in his small town’s Remembrance Day parade. His knees are too bad these days to do the entire parade, but he’ll march from the church service to the cenotaph for the wreath-laying ceremony. Joining the Canadian Navy [...]
T-Fal Vitacompact Food Processor/Blender review
A couple of weeks ago, I realized that the old Black&Decker ShortCut food processor was ready for retirement: a crack along the blade housing meant that it tended to get stuck on the shaft, requiring some bad words and a pair of pliers to get it apart. To be fair, it has served me well [...]
