My Niece the YouTube Star
My niece Meaghan gave the graduation speech this past week. It has been posted to YouTube in a fine montage by Christina. In addition to her speech making honours she picked up a total of seven awards including athlete of…
Month June 2007
Extending Firefox
I don’t normally blog about Firefox extensions. I have far too many installed, but this latest one is something that should have been a part of Firefox on install. If you are running Firefox, you owe yourself to test this…
Digtal Band-Aid
Better Micing
Timesaver
Append .com etc
Famine Rememberances
Last weekend Toronto dedicated a starkly breathtaking park/memorial to the Irish Famine immigrants of 1847. Ireland Park was opened by Mary McAleese, President of Ireland and features a rather striking memorial wall made up of glass bricks commemorating those who…
Space and Scale
There is a great discussion at Bricoleurbanism on the absence of people-scaled spaces in Toronto’s urban streetscape. The discussion takes as a starting point construction hoarding on two sides of the street near Bloor that inadvertently created a humane street…
Amusement
Strange Photos
Medieval Crime and the Modern Database
I attended a great talk by Steven Bednarski of St. Jerome’s University today. His CV lists UQAM, York, Toronto as places of experience. His framing question today: How does a social historian make use of a research database? Bednarski explains…
A Wine Worth Noting
While at the Second Cup today and I got a good tip on a rather intriguing grape from Hungary – kekfrankos . Toni Burzotta tells me that it’s one that will appeal to people that appreciate a well structured, smooth…
Cluttered?
Photo Gooder
More Multitouch
IR Laptops
Sleep
Better and Right