Jun 8, 2004
I keep forgetting to comment on this year’s Becel Ride for Heart. You can be sure that I finished it, although I almost missed the start time. Vic’s rear tire suffered a puncture and I accompanied him back to the Cyclepath tent to have it replaced. The pit crew finished … Read more
Jun 6, 2004
I was just flipping through the channels on TV and caught the tail-end of Brian Mulroney reminiscing Ronald Reagan on Larry King Live. When Mulroney was done, Larry King signed him off as “the former Prime Minister of Great Britain.” Ouch.
Update: CNN keeps transcripts of all Larry King Live shows and, thankfully, … Read more
Jun 3, 2004
From The Globe And Mail:
Mr. Arron said he tried to get Mr. Harper to give a clear answer [on whether he would use the notwithstanding clause to take away the Charter rights of gay and lesbian Canadians] at a rally in Guelph, which he was attending with volunteer Bob Smyth.
Mr. Arron was shouted … Read more
May 25, 2004
On June 6th, 2004 I will be riding 50km along the DVP in the Becel Ride for Heart. Please sponsor me for the ride. Those who donate more than $10 online will immediately receive an electronic tax receipt by … Read more
May 5, 2004
This sounds fun. Joe Gregorio of Bitworking has issued a Pascal String Challenge which requests weblog entries of precisely 255 characters. Those who programmed in Borland Pascal will remember that strings could be no larger than 255 characters in size.
Some great texts here.
I hate using the Google Docs editor. It reminds me of Word, and not in a good way. I generally don’t care about formatting, so using Vim to edit my Google Docs is ideal for me.
AceTax was recommended to me by a co-worker.
“execnet provides a share-nothing model with channel-send/receive communication for distributing execution across many Python interpreters across version, platform and network barriers.”