Something excellent that I've realized over the last year: I've got time. Read More…
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a bit of time 30th
a good year for canadian racing? 23rd
Three Canadian racers placed in the top 15 during training runs at the Lake Louise World Cup downhill, including Jan Hudec, who led with the fastest time. Sweet! (anecdote: I vaguely remember Hudec training with our little Red Deer racing club a few times before being ushered off to Banff Academy for bigger, [...] Read More…
information aesthetics blog 22nd
I'm starting to do some background preparation for my research and I've been digging around a bit for resources on information visualization. Today I came across this super excellent blog: information aesthetics. I love the "Moveable Type" installation in the lobby of the New York Times building. There are links to a [...] Read More…
peeved 19th
It's rare that my blog takes on such a combative tone, but tonight I'm fuming and I can't help it. To the individual driving a white van who hit a young woman cycling near Seaton & Shuter tonight and then just drove off: seriously, are you even human? Rest well knowing that she's [...] Read More…
music is my boyfriend 18th
It's not so far from the truth. This song is so ridiculous and awesome: "music is my boyfriend ... music is my beach house ... music is my king-sized bed." It's almost as if the band (CSS, from Brazil) wrote it as a commission for the great new iPod Touch commercial, but they're [...] Read More…
something non-technical 12th
Somehow a lot of the recent writing on here has been related to technical things. It might be a sign that I should get out more? Just to diversify the content, I dug out a few photos I took recently that I thought were fun. This painting on a concrete wall near my friend's [...] Read More…
writing GUIs for Mac OS X 6th
OK, so I wrote my first Mac OS X GUI application last night. It was mostly a "depth-first" exploration of how easy it is to write an application for OS X. I feel like somehow I slept through the last few years and didn't notice that GUI building has become a lot more [...] Read More…
leopard on my mac 6th
I installed Leopard on my mac last weekend. Overall I think it's just kind of OK. Read More…