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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FunnyOrDie: iPhone 4 Video – The Deleted Scenes
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Finland: Broadband Internet is a legal right
Starting today, every citizen of Finland has the legal right to a 1Mbps broadband connection, meaning that providers are now required to make the connections available to everyone. The government of Finland has also promised to make good on its goal of getting every citizen with a 100Mbps connection by 2015, saying that they now…
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“Climategate” deflated, but the damage is done
“A lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still putting its boots on.” Some media outlets have finally come around to admitting their mistake in the “Climategate” fiasco, but it may be too little, too late. After the computer break-in that revealed supposedly damaging emails from scientists at the East Anglia…
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E3: Rock Band 3 Real Guitar Demo
This item is from a couple weeks ago so everybody probably already saw it, but this new Rock Band Real Guitar looks sick.
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A suggestion for the Pope
PZ Myers has a suggestion for the Pope in regards to his “outrage” over the Belgian raids of Catholic church offices: He’s doing everything all wrong. Here’s what he should be doing: he should be calling the actions of priestly sex abusers deplorable and wrong, and insisting that the church will do everything in its…
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Paris and London 2010
Danielle and I took a trip to Paris and London recently. I’ve been holding off on sending around our photo album because I wanted to curate it a bit more – I’ve whittled it down to mostly the better pictures, but I wanted to add some more captions and reorganize them a bit. We took…
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Mike Snow – The Rabbit
Loving the weirdness of this video.
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Elsewhere: When Fat-Free Makes No Sense
…or Why I NEVER Buy Reduced Fat Sour Cream! From the always great Fooducate Blog: Regular’s Ingredients [3 of them]: Cultured pasteurized grade A cream and milk, enzymes. … Fat Free’s Ingredients [12]: Cultured Lowfat Milk, Modified Corn Starch,Whey Protein Concentrate, Propylene Glycol Monoester, Artificial Color, Gelatin, Sodium Phosphate, Agar Gum, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Citrate,…
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More “Web-Like”
Jason Kottke on Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash: Jobs sort of circles around the main issue which is, from my own perspective as heavy web user and web developer: though Flash may have been necessary in the past to provide functionality in the browser that wasn’t possible using JS, HTML, and CSS, that is no…
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Bluesfest 2010: Lineup impressions (so far!)
Let’s start with what I called: Iron Maiden – I can’t really say I called this, it was all but confirmed weeks ago.. Going to be a legendary show, and a great way to kick off the festival! Ottawa, start your decibel meters!!! Crowded House – Another that was all but confirmed well before the…