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This is the weekend of dueling festivals in west end Toronto : Ukrainian & Polish Festivals. One in Bloor West Village and one in Roncesvalles Village, only 3 kilometers, that’s 3 subway stops, apart. The Bloor West Toronto Ukrainian Festival Continue reading West End Toronto Festivals this Weekend,Sept 2011: Bloor West Ukrainian Festival & Roncesvalles Polish Festival
That Mobile is a trend should be a surprise to no one, but Mobile in 2011 looks a lot different from what it looked like in 2000. It’s going to look even more different in 2015. In 2000 mobile was Continue reading 2011 Trends in Computing : Extreme Mobile
This is for Ruby on Rails 2.5.x, and MySQL 5, and the MySQL2 gem (there is a problem with mysql2-0.3.2. and rails 3.0.x, but using 0.2.7 for Ruby 2.5.x and 3.0.x is good). I do hope to test some of Continue reading Rails Migration Rollback with compound indexes fail and fix
on Monday April 11 Twitter rolled out 70 more locations to the previous 42 location (the “Worldâ€, 20 Counties and 21 Cities) . Thankfully I had planed for this and it was trivial to to import and support the new Continue reading Twendr – Now in 70 more Locations
Tracking visits to a given website is a necessary SEO (Search Engine Optimization) function for many projects in order to determine “How I’m I doing” (for ROI) and “Where is everyone coming from” (for url referral and keyword). A common Continue reading How to block visits to your site in Google Analytics
“Another sort of coping takes place at the imaginative level.” Professor of contemporary Japanese literature Ted Goossen has an eaasy in this Saturdays Globe and Mail :Japan’s literature of the apocalypse From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published Friday, Mar. 25, Continue reading Japan’s literature of the apocalypse, a essay