Aug 6, 2002
While high-speed wireless access in Toronto might not be so great now (Clark Hornbell claims that we’re leaps and bounds ahead of Vancouver, however.) it seems like it could quickly get better. The rumours … Read more
Aug 6, 2002
I had a reasonably good weekend which included heading out to the Caribana parade on Saturday afternoon. I never thought it possible, but there was just too much booty. Everyone was dolled up and looking for some action, much like this article describes.
I find it a … Read more
Aug 1, 2002
As a follow-up to yesterday’s entry, Nelly Furtado did not win for best hip-hop/rap recording. Instead, K-OS won for his track Heaven Only Knows. I’ve had a listen to Exit, K-OS’ last, and first, album, and it’s pretty tight, containing a … Read more
Jul 31, 2002
Canada’s foremost hip-hop talent, Nelly Furtado, has been nominated for best hip-hop/rap recording at tonight’s 2002 Urban X-Posure Awards, Canada’s urban music showcase, for her track Turn Off The Lights. When I’m Like A Bird hit the airwaves, I was, like, “Man, this is a dope track. Check out that bassline.” It pleases me … Read more
Jul 30, 2002
Horrors of horrors, the lions are inbreeding! How can we as a responsible society let this happen to our animal brethren? Personally, I am appalled that this has been allowed to occur and urge everyone to boycott the Scottish zoo. This is proof positive of the moral depravity inherent in those of Scottish heritage! … Read more
A few people at work use SPSS to do statistical analysis. The language is (still) horrible. As of v14, however, Python can be used to access SPSS. This link contains a few starting points for Python-SPSS integration.
Back in November, Bill Bumgarner bought a sampler pack of safety razor blades. Week by week, he wrote a review of a different blade. The posts interested me, having recently switched to a Merkur razor. All blades have been trialled, and the results are in. Bill writes, “The Dorco, Derby, and Wilkinson Sword blades all … Read more
Ian Bicking introduces toppcloud, a light and simple deployment tool inspired by App Engine, but which strives to be better. I’ve been following development through Bicking’s toppcloud tweets, and it seems promising. I can’t wait to give it a try. Now if only I had something which needed to be deployed.
Apparently there’s a port of Freeciv (a Civilization clone) for the HTML5 Canvas. “Google Chrome 4.0 has the absolutely best performance results, while Internet Explorer 8.0 has by far the worst performance results. Firefox performs worse than Google Chrome and Safari. […] The results from Google Chrome are pretty impressive, over 10 times faster than … Read more
Here’s a nice article on one person’s attempt to reproduce the famed hockey stick graph from 3GB of tarballed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data using Closure. The author isn’t a climatologist, or even a scientist, so his differing output shouldn’t be a sign of manipulation. However, the post goes into detail as to how … Read more