Category: Life

Keep in mind the source when watching this. It’s pretty well known that tuition fees have increased far beyond inflation. Was post-secondary education simply just too cheap in the eighties? Is there more to this? Or is it a question of the Ontarian government going the wrong direction? In any case, it has some pretty damning footage of Dalton McGuinty.

How do you kill a blog you love? By forcing it’s owner to hire an attorney, because you decided to sue someone who posted a comment for slander. That’s pretty much what’s happening here, with the popular blog ShoeMoney.

I hope to God that this is a small part of a much larger picture: a multi-faceted slander case.

‘Twas fun. After seeing four bands perform, we headed to the Honest Lawyer. You can see all the photos here.

 

 

 

 

So it’s 3PM, and I have a massive University report due the day after. What do I do? Well anything but, of course! This is specifically the period when I’m most productive in all my other projects – when I’m procrastinating about doing homework.

My victim this last Wednesday was recording a TWAT Episode on GIS & Remote Sensing. It’s basically a quick fifteen minute introduction to the world of Geographic Information Systems and satellite data. You can preview the show here. It should officially be released over the next month or so.

TWAT is, according to the website:

T.W.A.T. is a hardcore tech daily internet radio show that has multiple hosts, guest, and topics. There are 1000’s of internet radio shows that talk about what the hosts had for breakfast. This one is going to be HARDCORE TECH. The mortals wont understand it, but then again, it isn’t for them, its for us. The shows only have to be five minutes long, but the hosts are welcome and encouraged to go over that limit.

After a year’s worth of promises, I’ve finally completed the *new* *dynamic* Ottawa 2600 website. This beats the old website (here), which was static. You had to edit the HTML pages manually to update news and meeting info on the website. While that manual-labour aspect could of been handled by a Bash script, this new PHP-based system is just easier. Editors can write new entries, which are updated throughout the menus of the site automatically.

Plus it looks cool. The code base for this was not mine – I used a WordPress Theme called CLI 1.0 by Rod McFarland. It’s very clean, well organized, code. For instance, he didn’t have support for parsing the ?cat=x in the URL bar, which I desperately needed. Adding it in, thanks to his cleanliness, was a synch. I also added a few functions (among them recognition of at least one swear word.)