Personal website of Michael Glenn
- Flash 10 Still a Poor Performer on Macs and Linux
YouTube recently switched to a widescreen format and while browsing around to test out the quality I was still shocked at the poor performance of Flash on a Mac, specifically with video. The playback is jerky and constantly pauses in both Firefox and Safari. Restarting the browser helps a bit but by no means solves [...]
- 2.2 Podcasts – Right Order but Download Flaw
The iPhone 2.2 update brought a handful of new features including a few updates to the iPod application.
I gladly realized after a day of listening to Podcasts that episodes appear in the order they were downloaded. This means that you can start at the oldest and not have to skip backwards to listen to the [...]
- Rogers un-connected calls?
For the past few weeks I’ve noticed a higher percentage of calls to my iPhone on Rogers that go straight to voicemail without ringing the phone.
These occur in metro Toronto (at least) with full 3G signal strength. I am sometimes actively using the phone either with data or an application but more often than not [...]
- The Developer Hat
Recently our small team’s development schedule was seriously slipping. Although the Mythical Man Month tells us adding resources doesn’t make a project go faster I had enough product and domain knowledge to speed things up and start coding.
It’s been been almost a year since I’ve been coding as part of a project and since that [...]
- 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. [...]
- 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. [...]
