Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
via the flickr page of schoschie comes the interesting discovery that Google is using a CSS sprite on it’s Google search pages : I had left styles disabled by accident (from the Develop menu in Safari 4) and was surprised Continue reading Google Search Page with Styles Disabled Reveals CSS Sprites
GreaseMonkey is an add-on to (primarily, but not only) the Mozilla FireFox web browser that lets you run small (javascript) scripts to modify HTML pages on-the-fly, changing how they behave and look. It was originally created by Aaron Boodman (aka Continue reading Greasing the bird : enhancing Twitter with GreaseMonkey
via the New York Times’s Consumed – A Successful Failure – Fail Whale the story of the Twitter Fail Whale that we love and hate, and the an artist and designer Yiying Lu behind it. See the Fail Whale in Continue reading A Successful Failure – Fail Whale
I’ve now upgraded False Positives to the latest WordPress release WordPress 2.7.1, plus a long over due theme change to Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework (created by Winnipeg’r Ian Stewart. I you are reading this via the RSS feed, come Continue reading Upgraded, themed, evolved and a fix to the FTP issue
A big article in the Saturday January 31st Globe and Mail Newspaper proclaimed : T.O. IS BECOMING A SOLUTIONS PLAYGROUND: WHY OUR CITY IS THE LATEST HOT SPOT FOR GEEKS, WONKS AND WEB JUNKIES, Toronto 2.0: data sharing source. The Continue reading Towards Building Toronto 2.0
This weekend was the start of Chinese year 4707, which is Year of the Ox in the Chinese zodiac. As always we celebrated the Lunar New Year with 2 dinners, one on the evening and one on the new years Continue reading Celebrating Lunar New Year and Long Life with Tam Kwai Lan