For whatever reason, I was born without the ITLAPD gene.  I mentioned it today at breakfast and my girls disappeared, reappearing a few minutes later with bandanas, eye patches, parrots on their shoulders, and "Aye, Aye me hearties!"  Clearly it skips a generation.  I'd write more, but I'm…

"I've been waiting paitently for a Toronto Mozilla Developer event, and I can't take it any more, help me Dave!" I hear you.  The wait is over.  In fact, you're one sleep away (zero if you stay up all night tonight and fix bugs) from the best developer…

Yesterday's Ubiquity lab reminded me that I need to tell you how to deal with having multiple browsers running at the same time.  By default, only a single version of Firefox can run at a time.  This is especially problematic when you're also using ChatZilla as your IRC client (which…

We had an interesting and lively discussion in class the other day, and one point stayed with me after it was over.  I asked the students about their experiences reading other people's code, or reusing code.  Almost all of the students confessed that they hadn't done this before (that's one…

My wife bought me these clear 3M sheets that you can put on a wall and turn it into a whiteboard.  And now I write on my wall.  I'm writing on my wall.  It's like being Bansky, only with trite little notes to self.  But I love writing on my…

It's September, the time of year when students head back to school and professors plot.  Almost all of my existing Mozilla students have graduated and started working, and I'm left all alone, sniff.  Well, not quite.  We've just welcomed 35 new students into our open source courses.  I'll be taking…

I love TED.  I have wasted so many hours watching the talks online.  Now I see that UBC is getting ready to do its own version for students, alumni, and others connected with the school.  Great idea, and best of luck with it.…

John let me know that the Linux Club is getting ready to start again, with its first meeting set for Monday Sept 15 at 5:10 (T2091).  Also, they will hold their first Install Fest for the fall on Saturday Sept 27.  If you've never been to a Linux Club…

The GyroBike is ridiculous.  So ridiculous I'd love to have one, two actually.  I know two little girls who would love it, and a set of parents who would enjoy not having them crash so much as they learn to ride. I mean, honestly, check this out...…

Today I spent some time colouring with my youngest daughter.  She was asking me to cut out her animals as she finished them.  While I did, I noticed her evolving style of colouring: she uses just about every marker we have to do lines inside the animals, creating something that…