Blog Posts

• Lots Going On!
  2025-03-26
• Bloomsday Halifax: Penelope at Home
  2024-11-17
• Bloomsday Halifax: Ithaca on Jubilee
  2024-10-27
• Bloomsday Halifax: Eumaeus at Freeman's
  2024-10-16
• Bloomsday Halifax: Circe on Gottingen
  2024-08-15
• Bloomsday Halifax: Oxen of the Sun at the Brown Hound
  2024-08-12
• Bloomsday Halifax: Nausicaa at Salter
  2024-08-09
• Bloomsday Halifax: Cyclops at Stillwell
  2024-07-23
• Bloomsday Halifax: Sirens at the Old Triangle
  2024-07-19
• Bloomsday Halifax: Wandering Rocks In Downtown Halifax
  2024-07-16
• Bloomsday Halifax: Scylla and Charybdis at the Central Library
  2024-07-15
• Bloomsday Halifax: Lestrygonians at Durty Nellys
  2024-07-09
• Bloomsday Halifax: Aeolus at the Nova Centre
  2024-07-03
• Bloomsday Halifax: Hades at Holy Cross Cemetery
  2024-07-02
• Bloomsday Halifax: Plumtree!
  2024-06-26
• Bloomsday Halifax: Lotus Eaters on Spring Garden
  2024-06-26
• Bloomsday Halifax - Calypso in Schmidtville
  2024-06-25
• Bloomsday Halifax: Proteus at Black Rock Beach - and Virtual Collectibles
  2024-06-24
• Bloomsday Halifax: Nestor at Point Pleasant Lodge
  2024-06-20
• Bloomsday Halifax: Telemachus at the Martello
  2024-06-19
• Busy Weekend!
  2024-05-17
• Bloomsday Halifax 2024
  2024-04-30
• Dune 2!
  2024-03-11
• Cory Doctorow on Blogging
  2024-02-21
• Dall-E Prompts Are "Woke" - And I'm Okay With That
  2024-02-12
• A Too-Brief Visit From Gretchen
  2024-01-25
• I Finally Found A Perfect Use-Case for AI Art
  2024-01-18
• New Year, New Runs (Hopefully)
  2024-01-09
• "Silent Night" Is Not Quite As Advertised But Is Still Pretty Great
  2023-12-14
• "Pure Brown Noise" for babies was the #32 most played track on Apple Music Canada
  2023-12-12
• I'm At "Have Yourself A Gothic Little Christmas" All Weekend
  2023-12-02
• The Kissinger Solace
  2023-12-02
• Some Good Summaries of the OpenAI Fiasco
  2023-11-27
• So. Many. Tabs. (And Some Reflections On AI)
  2023-11-23
• What All Those Cargo Ship Markings Mean
  2023-11-22
• The Joycean Ithaca Catechism GPT
  2023-11-13
• Catching Up On The Uncanny New AI Announcements
  2023-11-11
• Self-Careless: The card game about getting through the day
  2023-11-08
• News Is Breaking Threads and BlueSky
  2023-11-06
• My App Habits: Duolingo
  2023-11-05
• An Update On The Gibson App Van Halen Challenge
  2023-10-30
• Hal-Con 2023
  2023-10-27
• The Whales Have Been Saved, Captain!
  2023-10-24
• Some Things To Watch This Weekend
  2023-10-21
• The Moderna XBB.1.5.0 Shot Kicked My Ass - But That's Okay
  2023-10-20
• A Quick Road Trip to Lunenburg and Blue Rocks
  2023-10-17
• NeuroBlast CyberPunk HyperCard DiskZine
  2023-10-11
• My App Habits: Running
  2023-10-09
• Every Race I Signed Up For This Summer Got Cancelled By Bad Weather
  2023-10-06
• Social Media Engagement In Late 2023
  2023-10-05
• Nerd Nite Halifax!
  2023-10-02
• A Good Canadaland Podcast on Actual Progress in Reconciliation
  2023-10-02
• It's Van Halen Challenge Time!
  2023-09-29
• I'm Giving my "Punk Rock Software" Talk Next Week at The HFX.js Front-End Meetup
  2023-09-21
• Lovely Looping Guitar Video
  2023-09-18
• San Francisco Dream(force)ing
  2023-09-15
• Self-Help For The Already Helped
  2023-09-09
• Starfield and Mass Effect Andromeda
  2023-09-06
• Point Arena: The Wharf Master's Inn and the Coastal Trail
  2023-09-03
• Spook Country
  2023-08-27
• Worst Headline Ever?
  2023-08-23
• Leveraging Place Over The Ages
  2023-08-20
• Glasses
  2023-08-15
• 90s Fad El Niño Is Back!
  2023-08-09
• Well, Since Moses, Actually
  2023-08-07
• Not Since Moses
  2023-08-04
• Same Site New Look
  2023-07-31
• Social Media's 2023 Shuffle, And Back to Blogging?
  2023-07-24
• Nova Scotia Heart
  2020-05-21
• My winning Toastmasters International Speech Competition talk
  2019-08-06
• 2016: What A Terrible Year
  2016-12-29
• FramePainting 6: Esterhase on the Phone
  2016-05-14
• FramePainting 5: The Orange Room
  2016-05-11
• FramePainting 4: The Pencil And The Bee
  2016-05-08
• FramePainting 3: Getting Comic
  2016-05-07
• FramePainting 2: Layers!
  2016-05-07
• FramePainting 1: I Have To Start Somewhere
  2016-05-07
• FramePaintings
  2016-05-07
• Cape Breton Liberty
  2016-03-03
• A Sunset Walk Around The Walls of Carcassonne
  2015-09-13
• Bloomsday in Halifax, Nova Scotia
  2015-06-28
• Carcassonne: Henry James vs. Viollet-le-Duc
  2015-04-06
• Bram: High Noon in Languedoc
  2015-03-26
• The Gardens and Light of Villelongue
  2015-03-16
• The Abbey of Villelongue
  2015-03-11
• Finding Meeples In Languedoc
  2015-03-09
• Pretty Pretty Montolieu
  2015-03-04
• Around Montolieu
  2015-03-03
• Montolieu: Village of Books
  2015-02-28
• The Venetian Simulacrum of the Doge's Palace
  2015-02-25
• The Gorgeous Rooftop Weed Gardens of Montolieu
  2015-02-23
• Why The French Always Say "Bon Appétit"
  2015-02-22
• From Saissac to Montolieu
  2015-02-21
• Shandrew the Ranger And The Ruins of Saissac, Fortress of the Trencavels
  2015-02-20
• Along the Rigole to Saissac
  2015-02-19
• Up To And Beneath Les Cammazes
  2015-02-18
• Random Travel Notes
  2015-02-18
• Saint-Ferréol and the Canal Museum
  2015-02-15
• Beyond the Bout du Monde: High Above Languedeoc
  2015-02-12
• Saint-Papoul and the World's End
  2015-02-12
• Up Into the Hills of Languedoc
  2015-02-11
• Hiking Along the Canal du Midi
  2015-02-10
• NS EMO
  2015-02-06
• Castelnaudary
  2015-01-29
• Arriving in Toulouse
  2015-01-28
• Farewell to Venice
  2015-01-22
• Churches Big And Small in Padua
  2014-11-03
• Padua's Palace of Reason is Kind of Insane
  2014-10-28
• Padua and the Scrovegni Chapel
  2014-10-26
• Imaginary Conversation Between Two French Robots About Giorgio Moroder
  2014-10-18
• The Grander Side of Venice
  2014-10-13
• The Venice Where People Live
  2014-10-12
• Venice: The Details
  2014-10-07
• Dogwhistling Wikipedia
  2014-10-06
• The Charming Decrepit Textures of Venice
  2014-10-06
• The Doge's Palace: "The Central Building Of The World"
  2014-10-05
• Venice - Finally
  2014-09-27
• On Our Way: Montreal to Brussels to Venice
  2014-09-22
• Exceptions At Montreal-Trudeau
  2014-09-19
• Europe 2014: Starting Out
  2014-09-18
• iTunes Festival 2013
  2013-09-01
• iPhone Animated GIFs
  2013-08-05
• Two Days In Yosemite
  2013-07-23
• California's Gorgeous Highway 1
  2013-07-17
• Walking the Golden Gate Bridge
  2013-06-08
• A New Start
  2013-05-17
• Iceberg Beer and the Newfoundland Insectarium
  2013-05-09
• Walking the Tablelands
  2013-05-07
• Hiking the Green Gardens Trail
  2013-05-03
• Epic Western Brook Pond Is Epic
  2013-05-03
• Bonne Bay
  2013-05-01
• Climbing Gros Morne Mountain
  2013-04-15
• Getting to Gros Morne
  2013-04-10
• Road Trip 2012: Aeropress Morning and a Smoky Home
  2013-04-09
• Road Trip 2012: Quebec
  2013-04-08
• Road Trip 2012: Montreal
  2013-04-03
• Road Trip 2012: Pingle's Nuclear Fun Air Farm
  2013-04-01
• Road Trip 2012: Toronto
  2013-03-31
• Road Trip 2012: The Mid-Western Food In My Mind
  2013-03-29
• Road Trip 2012: Chicago
  2013-03-28
• Road Trip 2012: The House on the Rock
  2013-02-28
• Automated Artist Statement
  2013-01-22
• Thoughts on the Nova Centre
  2012-10-21
• Road Trip 2012: Wisconsin
  2012-09-09
• Road Trip 2012: Minnesota - Land of My Ancestors
  2012-08-27
• Road Trip 2012: North Dakota
  2012-08-11
• Road Trip 2012: Prairies
  2012-06-17
• Road Trip 2012: Writing On Stone
  2012-06-11
• Road Trip 2012: Days of Heaven in Lethbridge
  2012-06-03
• Road Trip 2012: To Lethbridge
  2012-06-03
• Road Trip 2012: Getting to Edmonton
  2012-06-02
• starshipsstarthere.ca
  2011-09-09
• The Halifax Convention Centre and the Citadel View Symptom
  2011-08-16
• Video: Welcome to Remembary
  2011-03-19
• Remembary Sponsoring Podcamp Halifax
  2011-01-18
• All In One Place: My Summer Travel Posts
  2011-01-03
• Mapping My Trip
  2010-12-30
• Flying to Flaxman Island - Part 7
  2010-12-28
• Flying to Flaxman Island - Part 6
  2010-12-27
• Update on Remembary
  2010-12-22
• Flying to Flaxman Island - Part 5
  2010-12-14
• Flying to Flaxman Island - Part 4
  2010-12-13
• Flying to Flaxman Island - Part 3
  2010-12-02
• Flying to Flaxman Island - Part 2
  2010-12-01
• Flying to Flaxman Island - Part 1
  2010-11-30
• Ernest de Koven Leffingwell in the Arctic
  2010-11-12
• A Better View of Downtown Halifax
  2010-11-09
• What's Really Happening on Barrington
  2010-10-23
• Introducing Remembary for iPad
  2010-10-18
• Downtown Halifax: You've Got A Good Thing Going - Don't Mess It Up
  2010-10-14
• iPad-Friendly eBooks of Gracian's Art of Worldly Wisdom
  2010-10-13
• Bend Sinister Brought Their A Game to the Seahorse
  2010-10-11
• A Big List of Movies Worth Seeing
  2010-09-25
• Nova Scotia and Auld Scotland
  2010-08-25
• Edinburgh: Stratigraphic Culture
  2010-08-25
• Edinburgh Without Expectations
  2010-08-24
• EasyJet: Discount Class Conflict
  2010-08-17
• Berlin: World Cup
  2010-08-10
• World of Donairs
  2010-08-09
• Berliner Ensemble
  2010-07-30
• Berlin: Museums
  2010-07-27
• Berlin: Ghosts of the Past, Visions of the Future
  2010-07-26
• Flaneur in Berlin
  2010-07-25
• Berlin: Finding the Best Wurst
  2010-07-21
• Istanbul: Overwhelmed by History in the Hippodrome
  2010-07-17
• Istanbul: That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea
  2010-07-14
• Istanbul: The Topkapi Palace and Harem
  2010-07-13
• Istanbul: Mosques
  2010-07-06
• Istanbul's Basilica Cistern: Gorgeous, Creepy, Nerdy
  2010-07-05
• Istanbul: Hagia Sophia
  2010-07-04
• The Streets of Istanbul - II
  2010-07-02
• The Streets of Istanbul - I
  2010-07-02
• Munich Airport: Legoland mit Bier und NapCab
  2010-06-27
• Heathrow Airport: You Are In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Different
  2010-06-27
• Getting Ready to Travel
  2010-06-08
• Quick Advice on Canadian Indie Music
  2009-05-25
• My Favourite Roadside Sign
  2009-02-12
• Well That Explains a Lot...
  2009-02-06
• Poland: Gear from the Army Museum
  2008-09-30
• Poland: Warsaw's Palace of Culture and the University Library
  2008-09-28
• Poland: Warsaw
  2008-09-23
• Poland: Winged Hussars
  2008-08-14
• Poland
  2008-08-13
• What's awesome about Toronto
  2008-06-07
• Possibly the best sentence in the English language
  2008-05-19
• QUOTE: We Shouldn't Have Music Anxiety
  2008-05-13
• Now *that's* Santa Cruz
  2008-04-25
• Small Town Newspaper Headline Dada
  2008-03-29
• Great Quote from Seth Godin
  2008-03-10
• McSweeney's: My Pet Peeves
  2008-01-28
• Shindig!
  2008-01-09
• Dresden Dolls / Die Mannequin / Friendly Rich at the Phoenix
  2008-01-05
• In Store for 2008: Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth?!
  2008-01-01
• Coffee Updates: Urbana and Far Coast
  2007-12-28
• Canadian: Walking to Tim Horton's Through a Blizzard
  2007-12-16
• Lighting as language
  2007-12-14
• TSOT Ruby/Rails Project Night
  2007-12-12
• IE is pants, pure and simple
  2007-12-07
• Passport Canada's Secure Enterprise Software
  2007-12-05
• DemoCampToronto16
  2007-12-04
• Faulty By Design
  2007-12-04
• Buynlarge.com - brilliant!
  2007-11-29
• Joey Starts at TSOT and Jeff goes 37Signals
  2007-11-27
• How To Doom Your Own Industry
  2007-11-27
• It's Sigmoidal, Stupid!
  2007-11-26
• Quick Update on Secured OS X Mail
  2007-11-18
• Alpha Geeks and Jedi Hooligans
  2007-11-17
• Now Fake Steve is Getting Close To Home
  2007-10-29
• Nice Rant on the Sanctity of Farming
  2007-10-21
• They Must Have Been Reading This Blog
  2007-10-16
• Well, so much for Reddit
  2007-10-14
• Zipcar: My Other Car is a Mini Convertible Named Munster
  2007-10-14
• XKCD Job Interview
  2007-10-10
• John C. Dvorak Misses It
  2007-10-09
• Protecting Your OS X Mail With Encrypted Volumes
  2007-10-03
• Fake Steve Jobs hits it
  2007-09-20
• My Favorite Bit From Herodotus
  2007-09-20
• Enterprise Software - like on the spaceship, right?
  2007-09-20
• So why, again, are you taking so long?
  2007-09-16
• That sounds about right for Oberlin
  2007-09-06
• Music, With Occasional City
  2007-09-06
• How to do Google Maps-Style Scrolling Windows with JavaScript and DHTML
  2007-09-06
• The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill
  2007-09-01
• Want a Rails Job?
  2007-08-10
• Quote of the Day
  2007-08-06
• Witty and Vibrant, Sensitive and Cranky
  2007-07-27
• Facebook, already - geez
  2007-07-26
• The Bolivarian Republic of Wednesday and Pudge
  2007-07-20
• Venezuela: How To Have A Good Party
  2007-07-14
• It's a PHONE that runs UNIX!
  2007-07-14
• Congratulations Pat & Chris!
  2007-07-13
• About Venezuela: Traffic
  2007-07-11
• Venezuela Stuff Coming Later - But While I'm Recovering...
  2007-07-10
• My most popular posts are un-published!
  2007-07-02
• ... that creepy ass botox-phenomenon
  2007-06-29
• Prototype Library and JavaScript
  2007-06-26
• Godin LG Hmb - my new guitar
  2007-06-16
• Safari For Windows - What Apple Missed
  2007-06-14
• Joel Corrects Himself In Mid-Post
  2007-06-11
• Yorkville's Summer of Love with Gucci
  2007-06-03
• Update: Coffee
  2007-05-27
• RJS / AJAX Highlight Colouring in Rails
  2007-04-30
• Looking Real Good!
  2007-04-29
• Post-something Post on Big Bags
  2007-04-14
• Disclaimer
  2007-04-09
• Analgesic Code: Backtrack
  2007-04-09
• Baby Steps With EMACS
  2007-04-07
• Back in Santa Cruz
  2007-04-06
• You know, I agree that we should worry about Global Warming...
  2007-04-02
• Life Tip: Digitize Your Documents
  2007-03-12
• Nifty OS X Finder Enhancement With Little AppleScripts
  2007-02-15
• Toronto DemoCamp 12
  2007-02-06
• Wednesday and Pudge
  2007-01-30
• Rails Pub Nite - HAML Cake!
  2007-01-19
• BAAX!
  2007-01-19
• With a Good Search You Can Be Organized
  2007-01-18
• Something people seem to have missed in the Steve Jobs Keynote today...
  2007-01-09
• Analgesic Code: Rails Test Progress
  2007-01-08
• New Year's Greeting 2006
  2007-01-08
• My investment finesse
  2007-01-07
• I *thought* the USA was getting a bit more authoritarian...
  2007-01-01
• The Big and the Small at DemoCamp 10
  2006-12-15
• Interesting facts about eBay's infrastructure
  2006-12-14
• Sassafraz Burning
  2006-12-13
• Sony shoots itself in the foot. Again.
  2006-12-13
• McSweeney's does Coffee Shops
  2006-12-12
• New! Improved! With Formatting!
  2006-12-12
• Farewell to Santa Cruz
  2006-12-10
• The Microsoft Strategy Wins Again - This Time in Gaming
  2006-12-10
• Why Toronto is Cool
  2006-12-06
• Things that make you feel safe at the airport...
  2006-12-03
• TIBCO General Interface: Web 2.0 is the new Visual Basic
  2006-11-30
• More On Avoiding SQL Disasters
  2006-11-14
• Three ways to avoid disaster with manual SQL statements
  2006-11-13
• Email - From a Mountain to a Molehill
  2006-11-12
• More on Far Coast
  2006-11-07
• Far Coast
  2006-10-23
• "Well, this oughta be different"
  2006-10-23
• Crabby Rant About Cellophane At Shows
  2006-09-21
• The Ring Cycle
  2006-09-21
• Flying on 9/11
  2006-09-13
• Opening the Four Seasons Opera House
  2006-09-13
• Two Great Tastes...
  2006-08-27
• RSS and the Three Popes
  2006-08-25
• Nano Redux
  2006-08-25
• Baked Astronomers
  2006-08-21
• All About the Flow III: How I Handle Music and Podcasts
  2006-08-17
• All About The Flow II: How I Handle RSS
  2006-08-16
• All About The Flow I : How I Manage Email
  2006-08-14
• The Last One Lingers
  2006-08-14
• Intolerable Cruelty
  2006-08-13
• Toronto DemoCamp8 - 'All of our tags have RSS feeds!'
  2006-07-30
• PHP expected T_ what?
  2006-07-30
• A Quick Trip to Space and Back - WOW
  2006-07-10
• That was weird
  2006-07-06
• Puppet Show and Gatling Gun
  2006-07-06
• DAMIANUS CONVAVUS
  2006-07-06
• DemoCampToronto7
  2006-07-05
• RMagick - oh the humanity!
  2006-07-03
• It's the Little Things - ajax_collection_select and Rails 1.1
  2006-07-02
• Quote of the Day
  2006-06-26
• The Front Lines of the Coffee Wars
  2006-06-13
• Back to School
  2006-06-13
• iTMS Without Pity
  2006-05-27
• New Mix Tape - Side B
  2006-05-21
• Dinosaurs in Cringely
  2006-05-21
• Mix Tape May 2006 - Side A
  2006-05-20
• It's the Cup Holder
  2006-05-15
• Post Spec - my talk at BarCamp Toronto
  2006-05-14
• At BarCampTDot
  2006-05-13
• Putting the Soft back in Software
  2006-05-12
• Things I learned at TRUGHat
  2006-05-10
• Contact Festival
  2006-05-06
• Back In Toronto
  2006-05-05
• iCal: The Lickable Cron
  2006-05-05
• Amazon.com Getting Clever
  2006-05-02
• Almost Famous
  2006-04-30
• Pop!Tech
  2006-04-29
• Firefox Web Developer Plugins
  2006-04-27
• Silicon Valley Ruby Conference Redux
  2006-04-26
• Surprise surprise
  2006-04-25
• Now With RSS!
  2006-04-25
• Silicon Valley Ruby Conference - Day 2
  2006-04-24
• Silicon Valley Ruby Conference - Day 1
  2006-04-23
• Yes, Virginia
  2006-04-23
• Dresden Dolls
  2006-03-12
• Reading Sideways
  2006-03-04
• Errormail
  2006-01-25
• iTMS
  2005-11-10
• Ironcoat
  2005-11-07
• Vertebrae
  2005-10-14
• Travel
  2005-10-14
• Serenity
  2005-10-01
• Market
  2005-09-29
• Scratching
  2005-09-27
• nano
  2005-09-23
• First
  2005-09-23