I just found this amazing list of great restaurants participating in WinterFest this coming February-March. Other than the fact that it ends the day before my birthday, this looks amazing. I'm a big fan of One99 and have wanted to go to Juniper for some time (did I mention it's…
I love email and its habit of giving random gifts seemingly out of nowhere. Last night one such gift was inserted into my overflowing inbox: Santo (Seneca ITT) mailed to see if I'd mind him posting a link on one of his pages to our students' Mozilla project list. I…
Just saw our first Pine Grosbeak (male) at the feeders today. I've never seen one here before, and the size and colour really give it away. I can't believe how amazing the birds are this winter.…
I found this story really upsetting. You know what, I get it. And you know what else? "This is not a jail term."…
If you're looking for a movie to take your significant other to tonight, let me suggest two new titles that have just been released: Vlad on Debugging Tools/Strategies for Mozilla Benjamin Smedberg on XPCOM (Rated R) I'd say more, but I don't want to give away the endings...…
I just saw that James Barber died this past week. I didn't know him personally, but my did I ever spend a lot of time him. James, or the Urban Peasant as I knew him, was an early inspiration to me. He demythologized food and cooking and gave me permission…
I'm pretty excited about what's happening this week. Since September Chris and I have been guiding 2 groups of students into the darker corners of the Mozilla development process. It's always as much of a learning opportunity for me as it is for them, and the students this time have…
Charge with electricity; pass an electric current through Yesterday Chris and I welcomed Benjamin Smedberg into our Mozilla classes for a talk on XPCOM. You couldn't ask for a better guide into the often (always?) murky waters of XPCOM. Benjamin is a fantastic and animated speaker, who really draws you…
I spent a good chunk of yesterday reading "papers" online from FSOSS. While I enjoyed many of the observations and the comments about what people took away from the talks, I was, on the whole, horrified at the way most people approached writing on the web. Do we…
[ _Vlad on Debugging](http://www.flickr.com/photos/14929227@N04/1819925392/), originally uploaded by [ChrisTyler](http://www.flickr.com/people/14929227@N04/)._ Today Vlad came to Chris' and my [Mozilla classes](http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)…