Monthly Archives: April 2008

Waterloo, Part 4: Keeping Up

A lot of people have asked how it is I keep up with everything going on at UW. My response is that actually I only keep up with less than one percent of what goes on, and doing so actually … Continue reading

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody – couple of things here I agree with, couple that I disagree with. To start with, I thought “journalists” calling non-fad web things fads was going to die years ago. The … Continue reading

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Virtual Earth / Live Maps: The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live!

Virtual Earth / Live Maps: The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live! – when I was studying for exams this past week, Live Maps, the team I worked with and will be returning to … Continue reading

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some public transit data notes

I started writing this post a few weeks ago and have mostly forgotten what I was going to write about. whups… Headway Wiki is a great wiki for public transit data, which accompanies the Headway blog. I added some links … Continue reading

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Unveiling Museum station

Unveiling [the Toronto TTC] Museum station – everyone may not like Joe Clark, but the world needs more people like him. People who care enough about the public good to do quality work on their own time for it, when … Continue reading

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contact management

so the problem of contact management is the opposite of new, and a lot has improved in recent years, but things still aren’t working for me my contacts are split like so primary list of contacts: Gmail. Auto-adding of addresses … Continue reading

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biofuel

random rant. biofuel is a bad idea, almost always, if not always. this has been clear since the ideas were first proposed, and confirmed with more and more studies. why does so much of the world not get this? to … Continue reading

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