Author Archives: mfagan

randomness

work seems to be keeping me rather busy Yesterday I got around to fixing a several-month-old bug with my University of Waterloo search engine. Turns out the problem was Yahoo having changed their query parser. The query I was sending … Continue reading

Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Women in my newsreader

always read Tara Calishain Susan Mernit sometimes read Charlene Li Angela Beesley compare this to around 200 feeds in bloglines (which by the way, has gotten their act together). hmn, maybe I should resubscribe to Marry Hodder, I don’t quite … Continue reading

Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Globe4D

Globe4D – this is fantastic. For a while I’ve envisioned something quite similar, although mine involved projection from the centre of the sphere, rather than from outside it. Clearly their method makes more sense 🙂 Every school in the world … Continue reading

Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

She’s back!

The web is a funny place. I’ve never even met Danny Ayers in person, but I feel quite relieved that his cat Sparql has been found. and if you know what sparql is, then my readership has certainly shifted to … Continue reading

4 Comments

OpenSearch Update

I’ve been fairly busy at Microsoft, working, and hanging out with other interns and so I’m way behind on blogging about OpenSearch. Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 and Firefox Bon Echo are out, both with some degree of OpenSearch support. … Continue reading

Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Tantek’s Thoughts – Building Things

Tantek’s Thoughts – Building Things – I have no idea what Tantek has been working on, but congratulations on the imminent launch and being so dedicated to something. I can’t wait to see it.

Tagged , , , | Comments Off on Tantek’s Thoughts – Building Things

Aharef: Websites as graphs

Aharef: Websites as graphs – neat visualization. Via Tufte

Tagged , | Comments Off on Aharef: Websites as graphs

UW Priorities

UW Priorities – my schools’ Daily Bulletin from yesterday notes the priorities for the upcoming year: graduate expansion space income diversification international recruiting expanding professional program capacity strengthening industrial partnerships Now, I complain a lot about the school’s priorities but … Continue reading

Tagged , , , , | 6 Comments

Hidden Passages in your home

Another gem heard on CBC radio: Creative Home Enginnering. having a hard time thinking up tags for this post…

Tagged , , | Comments Off on Hidden Passages in your home

Useful sites for Torontonians

Listening to CBC Radio (Toronto) at work (ironically in Redmond, not Toronto) and an interview mentioned two neat sites. TTC Rider has lots (and lots) of useful information about the subway system, such as which car to get on so … Continue reading

Comments Off on Useful sites for Torontonians