dsamojlenko
dsamojlenko
@dsamojlenko@dave.samojlenko.com

I am a web developer at Canadian Digital Service, living in Ottawa. I write code with PHP, Laravel, Javascript, and Python, among other languages and frameworks.

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  • Thoughts on the debate

    So the english language Leaders Debate was held in Ottawa tonight. Just a few thoughts.. Overall, not much of a debate… more of a series of speeches and a lot of ignoring. The moderation was pretty poor, and the leaders rarely seemed to listen to what others were saying and rarely got into any real…

  • GhettoFabulous

    Am I Ghetto or am I Fabulous?

  • Ambushed

    I’ve been pretty busy these past few days, and today is no exception. So today, I’ll just reprint an editorial I read this morning in the local Sun newspaper. For all the flak this paper takes, I find it a refreshing change from the predominantly-liberal media elsewhere in this city (hell, in this country). They…

  • Seeing Red

    There are way too many Liberal and NDP lawn signs in my neighbourhood. I think it’s time to put in a call to my local Conservative representative and order up a giant blue sign. Just to mix things up a bit. The Liberal signs seem to be a favourite of local vandals, who’ve taken to…

  • Bubbles for PM!

    This seems as good an idea as any

  • The worst government we’ve ever had

    Jack hits the nail on the head. A Liberal minority government is the worst thing that can happen to Canada because it will be a Liberal / NPD partnership, the worst possible combination. If the Conservatives don’t win Canadians are in for the worst government we’ve ever had.

  • MINI Cooper vs Ford F150

    Wow. In a traffic accident, which do you think is safer? You may be surprised.

  • It’s the principles, duh.

    National Post: Why Harper will be the next prime minister.

  • good question…

    I was talking this over with a friend last night. Andrew Coyne hits it with this: “All in all, it would be hard to pick a worse time to call an election, as far as the Liberals are concerned: divided internally, stalled in the polls, in the midst of the biggest scandal in modern Canadian…

  • Yarrhh!

    Whoever’s doing the casting for Al Quaeda is doing a helluva job. I mean, a hook AND a lazy eye? eeeevil. Do you think maybe he got the hook first, and one morning when he was waking up, he went to rub his eyes and… awww christ.