Miscellanea

Power struggle (Apr 24, 2008)
Our offices are under construction for the next few days. While most of our staff are working from home, I need to stay in touch with our contractors. So I've gone Bedouin, setting up my laptop in various coffee shops...

Continuous partial affection (Mar 13, 2007)
For the past couple of months I've been thinking about continuous partial affection. It's not a Big Idea or anything; it's just an obvious play on a popular concept. Plus the words themselves have pleasant connotations. Compared to continuous partial...

Log file goodies (Feb 26, 2007)
About five years ago (!) I posted about how people had registered domains for the top 25 misspellings of "Britney Spears." The post included a list of the misspellings. So every time Britney Spears does something outrageous I see an...

Earlier Posts

Dear Traveller... (Feb 25, 2007)

Natas (Oct 30, 2006)

Leaf blowers (Oct 24, 2006)

Popular photos, constructive interference and the Crocodile Hunter (Sep 4, 2006)

The Entertaible (Aug 30, 2006)

"You're in oil country" (May 28, 2006)

Playoff fever (May 2, 2006)

White moose (Feb 17, 2006)

Cascading Style Shirts (Sep 2, 2005)

Alberta's Centennial (Aug 31, 2005)

Recently enjoyed (Jun 22, 2005)

Be a Block View Driver (Apr 7, 2005)

Create your own crime scene (Jan 12, 2005)

Things you shouldn't have to explain to your kids (Sep 30, 2004)

Contrast (Sep 24, 2004)

Aggregators are the devil (Sep 15, 2004)

Bill Smith's rejected campaign slogans (Sep 8, 2004)

Edmonton storm photos (Jul 13, 2004)

Summer (May 18, 2004)

Project Grizzly (May 15, 2004)

Liebermans (Apr 7, 2004)

The semantics of honking (Mar 30, 2004)

Writing the Web (Feb 5, 2004)

Cold snap (Jan 26, 2004)

Hinterland Who's Who (Oct 21, 2003)

Dreamland Skateparks (Oct 20, 2003)

Urban camouflage (Sep 29, 2003)

Navelopia (Sep 22, 2003)

Testing... (Sep 22, 2003)

Job, a hip hop treat (Aug 25, 2003)

80s skate news round-up (Aug 19, 2003)

Same-sex marriages (Aug 14, 2003)

Howard Rheingold on CBC (Aug 8, 2003)

Lego games (Jul 30, 2003)

Charlottetown, PEI photos (Jul 21, 2003)

Live from C'Town (Jun 19, 2003)

Active Edmonton (May 30, 2003)

Steaming Mounds of Linky Goodness (May 18, 2003)

New new echo chamber (Apr 25, 2003)

SARS & SMS (Apr 5, 2003)

The future of marketing? (Mar 25, 2003)

Alberta's "Internet adoptions" (Feb 12, 2003)

NASA seeking public's help (Feb 1, 2003)

Careleft (Jan 27, 2003)

Three is the magic number (Jan 5, 2003)

"Just a wee note" (Nov 11, 2002)

Motor City Madness (Nov 3, 2002)

In My Amazon Gold Box... (Nov 1, 2002)

Real Email I Have Sent (Oct 12, 2002)

Powers of Ten Day (Oct 10, 2002)

Harry Potter's Magical Vibrating Broom (Sep 10, 2002)

Tweaks & Fixes (Sep 7, 2002)

The Bizarro Me (Sep 3, 2002)

Toronto the grimy (Jul 5, 2002)

MT (Jul 1, 2002)

Adieu Indigo (Jun 24, 2002)

SESOBS (Jun 23, 2002)

Sorry (Jun 1, 2002)

Word of the Day (May 29, 2002)

That's Mr. T, not Master T (May 27, 2002)

Weird (May 25, 2002)

Stephen Jay Gould has died (May 21, 2002)

Bling Bling (Apr 11, 2002)

Luck (Apr 4, 2002)

All aboard (Apr 3, 2002)

Quotes (Apr 1, 2002)

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