Nov 13, 2003
After almost a year, the Toronto election is finally over. And what an election it was! We were blessed with five leading candidates who had it all: experience, notoriety, charisma, strong (and oftentimes differing) political platforms, intelligence, and a passion for the city. Hell, if we could have somehow fused the best parts of each … Read more
Nov 12, 2003
I was lamenting to a co-worker today that Canadians, by and large, do not reflect much on the significance of Remembrance Day. For most, it causes no interruption. Should you happen to be on the subway which stops for the two minutes of silence, certainly. Otherwise, you might go through the day unawares. Read more
Nov 11, 2003
For me, the early days in November are some of the year’s most sorrowful. The first days of autumn have taken their course, felling the brown leaves from their trees, covering the green life of the grass and revealing death in the stark branches. The cold of the coming winter is in the air, but … Read more
Nov 10, 2003
How long has Tom Jakobek’s campaign website featured a list of Toronto weblogs? (Specifically, how long has this weblog been on that list?) Many of the listed weblogs are pro-Miller, and not one of them supports Tom Jakobek’s bid. Did Jakobek’s team even take a … Read more
Nov 8, 2003
I have been against the fixed link to the Toronto City Centre Airport from the start, thinking that it would lead to further expansion of the airport. According to John Barber’s column in today’s Globe And Mail, that was the plan all along. (Thanks to Read more
On a thread on the dev@hudson.java.net mailing list, many Hudson plugin developers posted public requests to be removed as component leads for those plugins. Requested plugins include: downstream-ext, instant-messaging, jabber, ircbot, console-column, dropdown-viewstabbar, dumpinfo-buildwrapper, cifs-publisher, batch-task, build-timeout, concurrent-build, ec2, emma, gant, hadoop, mercurial, persona, sauce-ondemand, script-realm, selenium, ssh-slaves, svnmerge, swarm, global-build-statsscm-sync-configuration, and clearcase.
An argument for CoffeeScript, with some links to non-trivial examples of implementations.
