Ian Irving's Code and Culture from Toronto
We saw 5 great films in the Contemporary World Cinema program in this years (2009) Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff). We started off with a Irish film, Perrier’s Bounty, set in the underside of North Dublin. Great and meaty characters. Continue reading Five films from the TIFF
The Junction Arts Festival is back on Sept 9 to 13, 2009 of its 17th occasion in Toronto’s west end on Dundas Street West between Keele Street and Quebec Avenue. The festival presents visual, musical, performance, new media and site-specific Continue reading A few Toronto Festivals in September: Junction Arts, Ukrainians, Poles and Movie Stars
Toronto’s Connector extraordinaire Sacha Chua developed this super-nifty Lotus Notes script which does a flexible mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to Lotus Notes, as documented and shared in Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Keep Continue reading Sacha Chua shares her Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
Paul Graham has a excellent writeup on the term “Ramen Profitable” : “just enough to pay the founders’ living expenses”. Which leads us to “Sirloin Profitable” and “Ferrari Profitable” as additional milestones in a business, who’s definition should be self Continue reading Found Words: “Ramen Profitable” also “Sirloin Profitable” and “Ferrari Profitable”
Toronto Life has a piece on Dufflet Pasteries winning a gold for best confection at the 2009 Sofi Awards in New York (Dufflet takes the cake at U.S. food show). I became aware of this because they used (part of) Continue reading Dufflet takes the cake at U.S. food show, Ian takes the Photo
My jaw literally did drop when I realized that my home neighbourhood, west end Toronto’s Junction City, was the topic of a article in the NYT’s travel section in Skid Row to Hip in Toronto , not just as part Continue reading Toronto’s Junction in New York Times