Jul 30, 2002
It is as I feared, folks. Radio updates to Radio.root items overwrite prior changes to those same items. Someone made a change to the way blogrolls are rendered and away went my W3C compliance. If you want to freeze your Radio.root, I suggest you disable nightly updates by way of the Read more
Jul 29, 2002
After narrowly missing the effects of the Toronto garbage strike, successfully avoiding a Toronto heatwave, and surviving legions of Catholic fanboys and fangirls, The Pope boarded his plane early this afternoon and said farewell to Canada, most likely for the last time.
Ladies and gentlemen, His Holiness has left the country … alive.
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Jul 29, 2002
In the “Where are they now?” file, Will Smith AKA Fresh Prince has come to the defence of Slick Rick AKA The Ruler who is in danger of being deported from the United States because of his second-degree murder conviction 11 years ago. U.S. law requires … Read more
Jul 29, 2002
I’ve decided against spicing up the look of my weblog. The more I look at its present design, the more I like it. It’s clean and simple. Any attempts I have made to add graphics have just made my weblog look tacky. As we all know, less is … Read more
Jul 26, 2002
Those litigation-happy Americans are at it again. It seems that a group of rotund Empire State inhabitants are suing several fast food joints for serving unhealthy food. Consumption of the scrumptious morcels that those merchants sell has increased their weight, so the claim goes. As I see it, there are two main reasons why … Read more
The way I see it, Apple is distinguishing between appliances and computers. The iPod, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV are appliances. If performance on these appliances falters, Apple looks bad. The MacBook, iMac and Mac desktop line are computers. Apple knows people expect to do what they want with computers, and that bad things sometimes … Read more
“rpy2 is a redesign and rewrite of rpy. It is providing a low-level interface to R, a proposed high-level interface, including wrappers to graphical libraries, as well as R-like structures and functions.”
I’ve been thinking about using SVG for some elements of my site. The lack of decent, free vector graphic editors for Mac OS has deterred me from going this route, however. This guide mentions the options available for using SVG for web page backgrounds.
“R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories […]. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered … Read more
The Globe summarized all the bills which died because of Harper’s prorogation in early 2010. There are 36 lost bills, collectively requiring just over 286 hours of debate. That’s weeks of time wasted, even on bills Conservatives supported, like bill S-5 which repeals the long-gun registry. Thanks for wasting taxpayer money on duplication, Stephen Harper! … Read more