I've washed out and put away the ashtrays in my apartment. They were needlessly taking up space....
April 2005 Archives
Trackpad scrolling
Incredibly useful System Pref, iScroll2 enables trackpad scrolling in pre-2005 Powerbooks and iBooks. I just installed the most recent version (I had been running an old version which was less than fantastic), under Tiger, and it makes me very happy....
Rapid pen based text entry
This looks very interesting. Some 250 words account for over 50% of English usage. These words are mapped onto the AlphaTap layout so that you can type them with just one or two pen strokes. To become productive, you only...
Semantic File System and the U.S. Patent office
This is very very very bad. A data model represents semantic information associated with objects stored in a file system. The data model includes a first object identifier, a second object identifier and a relation identifier. The first object identifier...
Notification
I stopped by "the bar" quick tonight to drop off something for the owner, a friend of mine. While I sipped the free drink, Albert came over and told me how happy he was and impressed at how I had...
The keitais are coming!
Slowly over the past year I've noticed a subtle transition in the mobile phone handsets that have been available here in my home market. But today it really struck me as apparent: the keitais are coming. Not in features or...
The troll pile
I'm writing up a proposal for a potential client (weblogs / community site) who realistically will probably get a fair amount of trolls posting, at least initially. This worries them somewhat, but they are willing to hear any thoughts &...
Mismanagement in Montreal
It is raining outside. It has been raining heavily all day. A street cleaner just went by... TWICE. Not to put too fine a point on it, but... it is 10:00 pm, nowhere near the 9:00-to-10:00 am time slot where...
Goin' back to Cali
It appears I will be in California early next week. L.A. to be precise. I'm thinking I will do my usual "taking advantage of a paid flight" and perhaps stick around a bit longer. Take care of business then road...
Seekrit... aaagent man
Dav says he feels Agents will make a comeback. I agree 200%. We should talk Dav... ;)...
Graphical Command Line, precursory
I've been composing a post about "Graphical Command Line" interfaces, which what alot of "AJAX" enabled features on websites are, and what Quicksilver, a Mac application, is... but it's getting so long and involved and I just don't have the...
Nobody Knows - Dare Mo Shiranai
Precariously perched, Hope dies. The world is so cold, and chance rarely appears. Stunning and devastating. I cannot say more....
Birthdays in Tokyo
Unless my info is wrong, I have to wish Happy Birthday today to good friend Jim and awesome dude Gen. Considering the time-zone difference, and certain servers holding certain informations being in various places on the planet, I may...
Say it ain't so, Joe, please, say it ain't so...
Gaaaaahhh U.S. Senator Evan Bayh is a heartland Democrat with a proven and broad appeal, and a history of advancing progressive values in a heavily Republican state. First elected Governor at the age of 32 – the youngest in the...
1337
That is the number of unread RSS'd "articles" in my aggregator right now. "Mark all as read" Ahhh, much better....
Télé Sans Frontières
I was handed a small flyer by a street kid for a showing of Télé Sans Frontières short films. From their statement: Amener des jeunes à dire vrai et à porter leurs propos afin qu'ils se construisent, se réalisent et...
I took a walk
I took a walk this afternoon, through the Mile End. I had to go to the bank, and I wanted to get some mackerel filets. So I walked. Usually I'd drive, but today I walked. I must thank Steven for...
SMS training
I just received an SMS text message from my wireless service provider, Fido, asking me if I wanted to participate in a game-slash-contest. It provided the URL for more information: http://www.fido.ca/k/. In a nutshell, they've constructed a whole story whereby...
I'm flying!
Whenever I imagine I can fly, I immediately think "Ok, so, where do i go? How do I get there?" I imagine myself bopping up and down, "zooming in" and "zooming out" until I find where I wanna be. A...
Situating a Google Map picture
I was just flying around over Montreal with Google Map's fun new satellite pictures. My actual neighborhood as well as the one I grew up in are sadly in more blurry sections. However I found this dreary patch of my...
Ten times more storage
Hitachi announced a breakthrough of sorts and expects to have 1 terabyte 3.5" hard drives on the market within 2 years, as well as 20 gigabye 1" "Microdrives". Mark Federman alludes to, without going into details mind you, the disruptions...
Google Maps application contextualizes real estate
This is stunning. By combining Google Maps and craigslist housing listings you get a very quick visual contextualization of the economic distribution of population for a city; which the affluent neighborhoods, which are less so. Not that that is necessarily...
Yahoo! Term extraction for MT
So Jonas has gotten this working for WordPress, but I have some ideas of how to use it, somewhat differently, with Movable Type. I couldn't code Perl (or anything else really) to save my life so here is just the...
Rock paper scissor
(Left as a comment on a yet another thread about "what is a blog?") A sheet of paper, a pencil. What is scribbled on that piece of paper (and arguably the role the person doing the scribbling takes on and...
Another clever local
Welcome to Andrew Rose and his "the mass is secretly obsessed with nipple dream" weblog. Curling trumps Pope - Apparently CBC actually stands for 'Curling Before Christ'. Every channel I get (that's about 4) has coverage of the Pope's death—save...
what daaa?
Jean Snow reports on something funny, yet inevitable, happening in one of his english classrooms: What's a Cassette? there was one kid (about 7 or 8 years old) who took the cassette box and put it up to his ear....
Funner
Steven dreams out loud about where he'd like to be someday: I managed to hitch a ride on the floating city 'GCS New Mosul' by agreeing to give my presentation 'Safeguarding your cyberprivacy - without slowing down your interface' at...
Brain implants
Here we go, here we go, here we go yo! Guardian Unlimited | Life | Meet the mind readers: In that moment, Nagle made history. Paralysed from the neck down after a vicious knife attack four years ago, he is...
Purple Cross
There is a small mountain in the center of the island of Montreal called Mount Royal. At the top sits a lighted cross. It is visible from most of downtown and the east. Last night... Uploaded to flickr by Pumpkin...
Mark my words
(pun title intended) Tags* are Frameworks for Describing Resources... It's gonna happen, oh it's SO gonna happen. Actually, it's happening now. It's not the big software companies, it's not the big media companies. It probably won't follow any current specifications,...
Google who?
I was having this very conversation yesterday... with two separate people. Will be interesting to watch this "battle of the titans"....
I'm not gullible
It's just that when you don't believe anything, everything becomes plausible/possible. ;) Water on Mars I hate Japan...
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