Dive into the archives.
- Smitten Kitchen
My new favourite website is a feast for the stomach and the eyes, Smitten Kitchen by Deb Perelman with assistance from her husband Alex. I have it on my RSS feed list but you have to visit the site to appreciate the labour of love that goes into this site. I’m going to try to [...]
- Medal Count by Athletes and Population
Now that we’ve got some medals on the board I was interested in seeing what the points total would look like if we factored in the size of the team or the population pool that the athletes had come from to see how that changes the rankings.
- Giving Back
I recently started using the mobile location application / game Foursquare. It allows you to share your location with friends and earn points and badges for how often you share. Foursquare also allows you to integrate with your Twitter account to announce when you’ve “checked in” at a location, earned a badge or earned the [...]
- Chest Pain at Toronto General
4:00PM – At the office. Still experiencing mild chest pains from the night before. These don’t seem heart related but I decided to called Telehealth Ontario who had a nurse call me back five minutes later. Ran through a series of standard questions relating to chest pain and advised me to visit emergency at my [...]
- My Road to HD
For years I’ve watched with envy as others purchased their high definition flat screen televisions. Then a few weeks before Christmas my wife remarked that HD televisions had come down in price and would we be interested in purchasing one? Yes we would. We’re big movie watchers and have grown to love our PVR for [...]
- Please Explain AGO Policies
My wife and I renewed our lapsed AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) memberships this month and took our first trip to see the new galleries. I left the camera at home because I was fairly certain they had and still have a no photography policy. Upon checking in, I was reviewing their new policies and [...]
- Home Depot Service
After an eternity of searching for a matching fume hood filter it turns out that I have to special order it from Home Depot. As I said before, service keeps me coming back and Elaine at Home Depot Leaside went above and beyond.
I was transferred to her on the floor and she wasn’t exactly the [...]
- Medical Myths
As the family know-it-all it is my responsibility to pepper conversations with almost useless knowledge and myth shattering news.
It is with great pleasure that I pass along these recent medical revelations. Here’s the original study in the British Medical Journal.There’s a lack of medical evidence showing you need to down eight glasses of water [...]
- Python
xkcd on Python. My thoughts exactly through the lens of Django.
- Back to Camp
After missing a few democamps to put in time on my own software I managed to make it to DemoCamp15 held at UofT’s Hart House.
The Great Hall is a fabulous room though not necessarily the best for presentations due to it’s length and hard reflective surfaces making it a bit of an echo chamber. [...]
