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- 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 [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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. [...]
- Nuit Blanche 2007
Saturday night’s Nuit Blanche was fantastic. I’ve uploaded my Nuit Blanche photos and was amazed by the number of Flickr photos streaming in as the morning moves on. I did a search for “Nuit Blanche 2007” and as I was paging I thought I was seeing either lots of duplicates or a Flickr bug. Turns [...]
- Tim Hortons Pay Pass
During my morning commute I decided to stop by Tim Hortons. Their King and Victoria location is now accepting Mastercard and Mastercard’s Pay Pass. Just no Interac. I suspect this is because Interac is too slow and would cause increased lineups and lost business or because Interac fees are too high for people purchasing coffee. [...]
- Genius!
Previously I have had serviced performed on my laptop at Carbon Computing but recently I decided to try out the Apple store Genius Bar when I suspected a battery problem on my MacBook Pro. I’ve had the machine less than a year but the battery was already down to less than an hour charge and [...]
- Hockeynomicon
The best quote of the month goes to Mike Shaver. “I have come to believe that the Vancouver Canucks are the Neal Stephenson of playoff hockey: they start out strong, but can?t write an ending to save their lives.” – hockeynomicon I stopped reading Stephenson after the dissapointing ending to Cryptonomicon.
- Power Saving Disincentive
Toronto Hydro is asking for a rate hike because they wish to recoup a 10.4 million dolloar loss in revenue due to reduction in power usage for the last year and a half because of an energy conservation program. Now an average increase of $2.07 per month isn’t a huge increase but isn’t this a [...]
- HTML and CSS Contract
A Toronto web design firm (not mine) is looking for an HTML CSS freelancer for a one week contract position at approximately $40/hour starting ideally starting this Monday February 26, 2007. Please contact me if you’ve got the skills and are interested.
