Went to the Fraser Valley Ruby on Rails meetup tonight. Organized by a guy who now works under one of my ex-bosses from back in the dot com days, basically a group of geeks interested in the Ruby on Rails framework who get together and geek out. I’ve only been to two meetings so far, […]
Random Links of the Day Read Post »
Half the random videos that see posted are on Youtube (which is fine) and the other half seem to be from either Hulu, The Daily Show or Comedy Central. If you go to the former, you get a page which is then eclipsed by a big ass popup saying basically “you’re not in the US,
Things to Fix on the Web Part 2 – Location Read Post »
Seriously, this is nuts. Andrea calls me this afternoon at work and says there are “6 inches of snow at home”. I of course call bullshit as there’s nothing bug a light rain at work in Vancouver. Even halfway home on the train I was thinking that the snow was still no more than an
Threw a bit of a writeup and some pics from the meetup I went to last weekend up on my photography blog.
Vancouver Beginner Strobist Meetup Read Post »
Thought I’d start a quick little series of posts about things that bug me about the web today, and things that I’d love to see fixed and resolved in the next 5-10 years. Chances are these things will actually get worse and not better, but I figure I’d better start my wish list now. First
Things to Fix on the Web Part 1 – Downloads Read Post »
I have to admit that I read Perez Hilton, but just for the juicy gossip I swear! This time I appeared on (another) Microsoft layoff story. I’m actually almost a little bit excited as my ass is now being seen by I’m sure billions of people today. Wonder if Perez would give me half-a-penny a
Another Appearance, On Perez! Read Post »
Went out to Maple Ridge for some stuff today, ended up taking a minor detour up near my old stomping grounds and took some pictures. This one I didn’t mind that much. Horrible lighting conditions (shooting into the sun), but it worked out ok. I bumped up the colors and the midtones a bit, gave
Some friends and I went out to take pictures in downtown Vancouver a few weeks ago (when the fog was here)… got some nice ones and have them sitting in a ‘to process’ pile that I just haven’t managed to get my brain into getting to. Was doing some other stuff so I figured I’d
Got woken up this morning by Rex whining at me and knocking my glasses around on the bedside table. I sleepily told him to bigger off, it’s too early, let me sleep. He kept at it, and as a bespecticled person the paranoia of my glasses getting knocked onto the floor was enough to pull
Alarm Clock Cat… For The Win! Read Post »
Passed on from a conversation on IRC: <TechTygr> arykwrkn: I was in a meeting with Dev one day… and the VP of Dev asked me why I’m always sniffing a white-board marker during the meetings <TechTygr> I told him, “It’s so I can see things from your point of view”
Understanding Your Boss… From IRC Read Post »