Jan 9, 2003
The Globe & Mail: Maher still politically incorrect.
And yes, big surprise, Maher still stands by his original 9/11 statement: “As far as what I said and patriotic fervour, to me that was patriotic. To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Who’s your real friend? It’s the … Read more
Jan 9, 2003
The Web Standards Project: Check, please!. Checky is a Mozilla add-on which facilitates document validation through one of 18 different services. The validation service is selected through the context menu and the current page is validated in a new window or tab. What’s more, you can bundle several services to … Read more
Jan 8, 2003
The Motley Fool: SUVs Deemed “Uncool”. Glancing through this article, I just had a vision of an ad for a compact car, such as the Mini. Picture this:
SCENE: An almost full parking lot. A white man in a suit sitting alone in a giant dark-coloured SUV near … Read more
Jan 8, 2003
Following Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynote speech, there has been much hubbub about Apple’s new web browser, Safari, not to be confused with Internet Safari, the kid-friendly web browser put out by Heartsoft. Dive Into Mark probably has one of the better … Read more
Jan 8, 2003
The Globe & Mail: Toronto effects firm wins Academy Award. Alias/Wavefront will be presented an Oscar honouring scientific and technical advancements in film-making. It’s about time Canadian special effects shops received some recognition.
Congratulations to everyone I know who works at Alias/Wavefront, even though they probably won’t … Read more
OpenParliament.ca aggregates an MPs Twitter statuses, press mentions, blog posts, bill votes and appearances in the hansard. It’s an excellent resource with a clean interface.
Everyone knows serif fonts, but do they know the different types of serif fonts and how they evolved? This article explains the differences between old style, transitional, modern, slab and Clarendon serif fonts and provides links to free implementations of those font types.
“Spring Python is an offshoot of the Java-based Spring Framework and Spring Security, targeted for Python. Spring provides many useful features, and I wanted those same features available when working with Python.”
It looks as though Spring Python is an alternate to WSGI. Perhaps I don’t understand what Spring Python buys me that a few … Read more
CalendarPicker is a great-looking slim jQuery calendar widget with scroll-wheel support.
Bahar Niramwalla offers some tips for looking good in portrait photos. While her suggestions focus more on makeup, they are of interest to photographers to help their subjects look their best.