VanCity, I'm so tired of you
I've been a loyal VanCity customer since I moved to Vancouver in the mid-90's. I wanted a local bank whose values seemed to match my own politics. I was...
Better redirection
For sites powered by the Pencilneck CMS, we've for ages and ages had what we called "Friendly URLs". These are common across CMS's, blogs, etc (some...
City-owned fibre: new revenue stream?
I was reading this article on Ars Technica about the town of Monticello, MN, who had tried to build its own 50Mbs fibre network after TDS (the local cable...
Installing root Certificates for ColdFusion
This another one of those post-this-here-so-I-don't-have-to-google-forever items. In May of this year, Verisign introduced a new intermediate root...
BCHydro Power Outage Alerts: A suggestion
Today, when the power went out at work, the first thing I did (after getting my laptop tethered to my phone) was to go to the BC Hydro Power Outages page,...
I'm a mean dad
Every night before bedtime, we read stories to Liam. Many nights, Liam will then take a book into bed with him to "read" (in quotes because 1, he's not...
Thoughts on Bill C-300
I was just listening to the debate on CBC's The Current between John McKay, Liberal MP for Scarborough-Guildwood and Jon Baird, president of the...
Minor site Tweaks
I've made some minor edits to the site: The biggest change is the header: I'm now pulling in a random image to be the background for the heaader - these...
My Photography Workflow
At BarCamp on Saturday, 2 of the sessions I took part in were led by John Biehler & Scott Prince. First, a photowalk in & around the Discovery...