I’ve been thinking about using SVG for some elements of my site. The lack of decent, free vector graphic editors for Mac OS has deterred me from going this route, however. This guide mentions the options available for using SVG for web page backgrounds.

“R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories […]. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered … Read more

The Globe summarized all the bills which died because of Harper’s prorogation in early 2010. There are 36 lost bills, collectively requiring just over 286 hours of debate. That’s weeks of time wasted, even on bills Conservatives supported, like bill S-5 which repeals the long-gun registry. Thanks for wasting taxpayer money on duplication, Stephen Harper! … Read more

Stephen Worth, Director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, recently did a guest-blogger spot on Boing Boing where he featured over a dozen music-related clips. Each clip is a breadcrumb to DVDs, CDs and other links which an interested reader should review. Worth’s point, and I share this view, is that even the recent past contains … Read more

My experience at a past company closely reflected the first few slides in this presentation. Ops and development didn’t seem to trust or respect each other. Ops resisted new code because they’d been bit by bad code before, and development didn’t think ops were doing their jobs properly. Thankfully, I was a developer who had … Read more