The Long And Winding Road To Our Current Election

I guess all this election talk got Ann all curious about the state of government up here in the great white north. It didn’t take long before she got, as she put it, more than she wanted to know. Hahhaa. She found a pretty cool article, so I thought I’d link to it.Here’s the article …

>Where All Our Local Candidates Stand

>Since Monday is election day up here, I figured this would be a good article to link to. The Guelph Tribune has been asking a series of questions to all the candidates about what they would do about this or that if elected. Their final question was “What will you personally bring to the table …

Invisible Captcha: Cool Or What?

So many times I hear about new captchas, and I cringe. We’ll be soooo screwed. Well, thanks to a conversation on Twitter, I heard about a pretty neat idea.the invisible captcha! Here’s how it works. People who are running their blog updates through Feedblitz and pay a wee bit of change can install this invisible …

My Interview On Accessibility Matters

Remember back when I said I would be on the radio? Well, I finally edited it down from the full hour to the relevant sections, and here’s the result. I left in the monolog by Susan Wheeler because I start joking about it when I start talking, so I felt it had to stay. Plus, …

A Song For Michael Sona

Oh me oh my we’re goofs. You’ll know why very shortly. Steve and I were just sort of standing around talking, when suddenly one of us started singing “My Sharona.” Then the other said “Hey! There’s a parody of that song in there, only all about Michael Sona.” You know who Michael Sona is, right? …

Bob Cole Calling The Henderson Goal

I don’t think you can live in Canada for any length of time without seeingPaul Henderson’s winning goal from 1972at least once. It’s shown all the time, and Foster Hewitt’s “Henderson has scored for Canada!” is one of those things everybody seems to know even if they don’t know they know it. But until now, …

This Is For The Birds, And It’s From Them Too!

I’m gonna cry. Seriously. Gonna lay down my head and cry. We try to write intelligent things on Twitter and on the blog, and between us, Steve and I have 250 followers or so. But a bunch of birds pecking on a bacon fat-covered keyboard get 2654 followers. Whyyyyy? I’m telling you, it’s like the …

This Is A Holdup…Note…That I Left Here…

the best bank robbing advice I can offer you all is don’t, but if you must, the next best thing I could suggest is when you leave, remember to take your note with you. Failing that, all that’s left isdon’t go back for it later like Matthew Dale Hudleston did. According to his plea agreement, …

We’re Done With Echo

Apologies for the rambling nature of this thing. I was writing thoughts down as they came to me and it got a little long. When JS-Kit bought Haloscan and turned it into Echo in 2009, I was a little concerned. What’s going to happen to my comments? What’s this gonna cost me? Am I, as …