Over the years, I’ve occasionally posted about some of the search terms that were bringing people to my blog. I did this once a few months after starting my blog in 2006 and again during the 2009 NDP Leadership Race and probably a few other times as well. I thought it might be interesting to re-visit the […]
Flickr, a photography storage & sharing site which was one of the original Web 2.0 services (the missing vowel gives it away!), has lived in a state of benign neglect for the past few years after being acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Under the leadership of new CEO (and former Google #3) Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! […]
Canadian astronaut, Col. Chris Hadfield’s final message from the International Space Station before returning to earth after five months in space is quite fitting (and has already gone viral like so much of the other content he’s provided. One great example – a geography teacher at a Nova Scotia Community College created a cool Google Maps mash-up which […]
Fascinating (although not quite as comprehensive as you’d expect – only people who aren’t logged in to Wikipedia accounts have their IP addresses logged when they make edits. So this visualization only shows a small subset of active Wikipedia editors – mostly made up of those not committed enough to have an account or who are […]
GeoGuessr is a pretty fun online game where it shows you a random location from Google Street View and then you zoom in and click on a world map to guess where you are with points being assigned based on how close you are to the actual location. There are no “rules” per se but […]
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. It’s a day to consider how people with disabilities experience the web, software, mobile devices, games and so on, targeted towards designers, developers, usability professionals and others without much experience with accessibility. There are public events scheduled all over the world, as well as other accessibility-related events. To participate on your own, […]
I, too, used to do this… …until I realised there was a better way. For the love of Dog, people, turn your camera phones sideways!
A few different shots in honour of perhaps the nerdiest day of the year: I’m not a programmer but via a handy online interface, was able to create my own watchface for my “21st Century Calculator Watch“. There’s also a web site with lots of other cool watchfaces others with greater skills than my own […]
So as much as I’d like to just keep posting pictures of Sasha, eventually I’ve got to get back to blog posts that have “letters” and “words” rather than cute pictures. A good place to start would be with a look back at that first day, inspired partly by many of the notes I scribbled […]
Lots of April Fool’s jokes across the Internet today as usual. One of the funniest is that /r/radiohead has temporarily changed their sub-reddit to be like /r/coldplay, playing up the “rivalry” between fans of these two well-known UK bands with Radiohead seen as groundbreaking and original while Coldplay is seen by many as mainstream, unoriginal (copying […]
