Nov 25, 2002
So you’ve ditched the phonebook in favour of Canada411 and life is grand. Within seconds, you’ve got the phone number and address of that hottie you’re stalking. A few clicks and a cut-and-paste later, you pinpoint your target’s location with the help of MapQuest. Easy, yes, but tedious and somewhat slow. Wouldn’t it … Read more
Nov 24, 2002
This is a little stale, but it’s classic. I heard a recording of this sketch on CBC’s Metro Morning a couple of days ago. It’s a new take on the classic Abbot & Costello routine Who’s on First but with George Bush and Condoleezza … Read more
Nov 23, 2002
This past Thursday night Steve “Dry” Walker and myself went to see Richie Hawtin and Sven Väth at Turbo nightclub in Toronto. The event was part of a tour to promote their … Read more
Nov 21, 2002
Some years ago when I was in university, a friend asked me “Do you ever get the feeling that you’re living in a bad cyberpunk novel?” I feel that way now, more than ever, especially after reading the headline “Miss World riots escalate“. Just when you thought that life on … Read more
Nov 20, 2002
Check this weblog out and then view the source. This makes my XHTML1 strict weblog look like bad HTML with Netscape extensions, and it even validates as XML and also validates as RSS. How cool is that? Seriously, this is what it’s … Read more
PiCloud makes it easy to run long-running Python code in a distributed environment. Just pass your function to the cloud and it executes in a queue. Your Python job can make use of a large but limited selection of packages.
I really like how OkCupid shares their statistical data. In this report, they correlate ethnicity with reply rate. The conclusions? Women of African descent reply the most but get the least replies. White men get the most replies but reply the least. White women and those of Asian and Hispanic descent prefer white men. The … Read more
The global disease alert map at HealthMap displays isolated and nationwide outbreaks of disease based on news reports and curated personal accounts.
“This image is a ‘balloon race’. The higher a bubble, the greater the evidence for its effectiveness. But the supplements are only effective for the conditions listed inside the bubble.
You might also see multiple bubbles for certain supps. These is because some supps affect a range of conditions, but the evidence quality varies from … Read more
Branch By Abstraction is a development technique whereby an introduction of a destructive change is preceded by an abstraction phase. This abstraction phase involves abstracting the affected code, updating its dependent code to use the abstraction, introducing a second unit-tested implementation, updating the code again and, lastly, deprecating and destroying the old implementation. I did … Read more
