Archive for February, 2005

Ummm … 43 things is very cool … go see it. Here’s my first thing; I’m a horribly goal-oriented person, and I’m sick of postponing my life until I do X or achieve Y, mostly because every time I actually do achieve X, there’s another X ready and waiting to take its place.
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The web is going nuts over Jesse Jame’s Garrett’s latest essay on Ajax web apps, and I blogged it myself, if a bit tangentially … But I was thinking tonight as I was revisiting the concept and turning it around in my head: how would I feel about this if I was Macromedia? Not...
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Ever thought of taking a hike … and not coming back for 4 months? A business associate of mine, Dave Baggenstos, is doing exactly that. Very cool.
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The phrase “papers, can I see your papers” brings back one massive conglomerate image in my mind of the hundreds of cold-war spy movies I’ve wasted my time on … the hero/ine is stepping onto the train or walking through the street in some Eastern bloc country with a totalitarian government. But that could...
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Speaking as a Canadian of relatively recent European descent, Europe is really ticking me off these days. What’s bugging me? European hunger to sell methods of killing people to China. Maybe I’m just stupid. But I have this impression that Europe thinks it’s a kinder, gentler place than, for instance, the US of A....
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The last 3-4 posts on my blog to the contrary, I swear I am not on a bug-hunting binge right now … they just keep popping up. Finder (the windowing app for Mac OS X) kinda went crazy today. Every time I moved an icon or a window, it left tracks somewhat like a...
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Ajax applications (Asynchronous Javascript + XML) are the hottest topic du jour, due to Jesse Jame Garrett’s essay on the topic a few days ago. (Offtopic: I hate being scooped by Slashdot! I noticed the Ajax article a few days ago off a link at Peterme, and was going to blog it …. but...
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I saw a Google error today for the first time ever …. Mike Skovgaard, one of our developers, found it first. Screenshot follows, as proof:
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I attended the Vancouver Enterprise Forum tonight for the first time. It’s a bunch of people who are related to the technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurial worlds who get together every month around different topics. This month was cleantech, or green energy. Not really my specialty, but the speakers were interesting. They included Jeff...
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iPhoto’s slowness is turning a great iApp into the Achilles heel of Apple’s digital lifestyle. It’s just so easy to start using, that – amazingly enough – people actually use it. And what happens when you do? Frustration and disappointment, to a degree. iPhoto is still cool, don’t get me wrong. It’s just dog-ass...
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I went out star-gazing last night with some astronomical binoculars I purchased a month and a half ago. We’ve been having the most incredible beautiful clear sunny days here … and clear sunny days mean clear night skies – an amateur astronomer’s delight. I made my way down to McDonald Park, a nice reasonably-dark-sky...
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I ran across this Dilbert quote in the coursework for my ETEC (education technology) 510 course today: Change is good – you go first – Dilbert Love it!
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I pop my name into Google from time to time to see where my blog comes up, among other things, and I always find something interesting. Such as this article on the movie “The Passion of the Christ, to which I responded almost exactly one year ago. Click the link under Insider Letters on...
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I’m currently in the Master of Educational Technology program at UBC, and was doing some research on a paper tonight. And I just found a nice new method ….
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Forbes had a very good story on the cancellation (boo, hiss) of the NHL season today, in which Michael Ozanian correctly blames Bettman – not for being a poor negotiator or lousy boss – but for greedily following expansion money and losing the league in the process. This particular quote is very interesting, particularly...
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