ISSN 1496-3221
July 17, 2004
This masking tape badge of honour was presented to me by my eldest daughter yesterday. She is always commenting that I ‘add serifs to everything’, meaning that I have to constantly fiddle with stuff after it’s handed to me. Like adding ground pepper or salsa to my food. Yesterday, I apparently was ‘adding serifs’ because … More
July 16, 2004
Amidst the aforementioned hardware issues experienced earlier in the week, I actually managed to accomplish quite a few things without access to my usual complement of application preferences, archived email, and customized keyboard shortcuts. It’s funny how much faster a clean, unmodified system runs in comparison to one that has been tweaked and preened and … More
July 6, 2004
Photocopied image on mailbox. Kensington Road, Calgary.
June 29, 2004
Every once in a swoop, some upstart codepunk decides to lift a chunk or two of my site for their own devices. While this kind of thing is mildly annoying on several levels, it really doesn’t twist my knickers all that much. What boggles me beyond believe is when ridiculously obvious pieces of my site … More
June 29, 2004
It is a pleasure to report I did not accidentally overwrite any portion of a certain web site today. Similarly, I did not cause any of the core functions of the aforementioned web site to abruptly cease working. I also managed to avoid executing a certain migration script which apparently could be implied as having … More
June 28, 2004
Contrary to popular opinion, I’m actually a fairly easy going guy when it comes to doing my job. Or in this case, when it comes helping the folks around me do their job. If a certain piece of software is required to make even a small portion of a job a bit simpler, I’m generally … More
June 15, 2004
I’m guessing they have this ready just in case.
June 15, 2004
Weathered delivery truck signage. Memorial Drive, Calgary.
June 12, 2004
If you’ve been looking for Typographica this weekend and wondering where it could have wandered off to, I have some information for you. It appears that recent events involving a certain regulatory institution from the great white north have caused the typographi.ca domain to be rather unceremoniously yanked from the airwaves. The CIRA can be … More
June 11, 2004
Graffiti on metal fence. Kensington Road, Calgary.