October 2007
310 posts
sillygwailo: Today is not only Hallowe’en, but since it’s a Wednesday, it’s also David Caruso One-Liner Then Putting On Sunglasses Day (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: The recent lottery TV commercials here in B.C. are influenced by http://tinyurl.com/ykepl7 but I can’t prove it. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Joe Clark's TTC Type & Tile Tour...
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sillygwailo: Finally catching DJ Riz spinning on KEXP Expansions tonight. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: The 60 second personal elevator...
This is what I’m working on this week.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Eric posted photos o the Brill...
Also photos of ads from old school BC Transit and other transit systems.
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sillygwailo: KEXP pledge drive made the comparison between the radio station and shareware. Open source is actually a more appropriate comparison. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: The Mobility Education Foundation...
“Mobility education is an efficient, holistic program that simultaneously addresses issues of safety, environment, health and economics by redefining our expectations about transportation and its consequences.”
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Just a Gwai Lo: The Introvert's Guide To Selling...
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sillygwailo: That’s it, next year for Hallowe’en I’m going as a SkyTrain! (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Canadian businesses can refuse...
From the Bank of Canada: “The method of payment can be whatever is mutually acceptable to both parties — cash, credit card, cheque, etc. Thus, a merchant may refuse to accept bank notes in payment for goods or services, without contravening the law.”
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Just a Gwai Lo: American businesses can refuse...
According to the U.S. Treasury: “There is […] no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. “
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Just a Gwai Lo: Sacha responds at length to my...
“The intelligent people that need to stick around Vancouver are likely renting.”
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Just a Gwai Lo: The Elements of Typographic Style...
I own the book, having read most of it when having borrowed it from the library. The website, unaffiliated with the book’s author, is a continuous work in progress.
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Just a Gwai Lo: The Death and Life of American...
Jeannine Ouellette argues that “free and unstructured play is so encompassing for children that the entire adult world evaporates; children lose themselves in their own world completely. Most anyone who’s ever jolted a child out of this state with a call for lunch or bedtime would attest that the child’s reaction is akin to being awakened from a dream.”
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Just a Gwai Lo: Scott Berkun on how to get the...
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Just a Gwai Lo: Tramway de Bordeaux Microsoft...
The beta is fairly buggy, the site built in Flash, and the downloads a bit slow. And it helps if you know French.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Start of Damon Schreiber's...
More trees and fewer trolleys than 30 years ago.
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sillygwailo: Still looking for help with @gabrielmansour’s GM script to automatically click “update conversation” in Gmail http://tinyurl.com/2bmo2c (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: Thinking about which hobby to drop. Suggestions? (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Vancouver risks driving away its...
There’s no way I can afford to buy any time soon. Even though Vancouver is Richard-sized, house and condo prices and a tight rental market have led me to consider moving back to Vancouver Island.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Lessions From My Online News...
This is part 1 of the wrap-up for the Online News Association workshop on Citizen Media I spoke at last week in Toronto. See the introductory post for more information and links.
This will necessarily be a combination of what I said at the workshop and what I wanted to say. The principle lesson learned over the three years plus at Urban Vancouver is that we found it hard to convince people to...
Just a Gwai Lo: Online News Association Panel on...
Last week, at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, I spoke for a few minutes on at the Online News Association’s pre-conference workshop on citizen media. With Lisa Williams, proprietor of H2otown.info, a community site for residents of Watertown, Massachusetts, we were scheduled to talk about what’s missing from local news coverage, but both chose to talk about the lessons we learned as...
Just a Gwai Lo: Second Visit by the Airbus A380 to...
Earlier this year, in a cynical (and successful) attempt to increase my traffic, I linked to a bunch of photos of the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet landing at Vancouver International Airport, and even had the keywords in my tagline, just in case. After getting back from Toronto last week, I read that the airplane made another visit to YVR (in fact, it was the increased search activity to my site...
Just a Gwai Lo: Sacha thinks that Microsoft made a...
He advises holders of MSFT stock to sell.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Travis Smith's thoughts on ONA...
“News organizations are the dairies of the 21st century: they currently make the product and also deliver it directly to the individual.”
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sillygwailo: @al3x: one of my Google Apps accounts already has IMAP. I’m thinking you’ll only have to wait, what, at most a couple of days? (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: This is just a reminder to subscribe to your own feed(s), so you know what your readers see in case there’s something broken. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: on this day two years ago I wrote about my newly bought Moleskine http://justagwailo.com/filter/2005/10/24/moleskine (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: Old Chinese people exercising alone outside is a mark of an evolved and properly civilized neighbourhood. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: Two people offered to buy text link ads on my blog recently. I said no, but not on principle: I just don’t need the cash that badly. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: @JanKarlsbjerg: Go Lions Go! :) Canadian football is way more exciting than American football, but I don’t really seek either out. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: Ambient music makes me feel more productive. Currently playing Rafael Anton Irisarri’s Daydreaming on repeat. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Terminal Productivity Tips...
I usually seek out answers to specific problems I have, but in this case the tip to jump ahead to a specific line when launching nano and toggling back between current and previous directory are useful.
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sillygwailo: Committing to installing CFL light bulbs where I can in my apartment after watching http://www.commoncraft.com/cfl (despite warm-up issues). (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: I should probably care more about Facebook applications, since they’re PHP-based, but I’m not attending tonight’s Facebook Garage. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Joe Clark is conducting a type and...
He may hold another next week if the one this Sunday goes well.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Send the currently playing song on...
It would solve a problem for me if there was a port for the Mac.
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Just a Gwai Lo: Simon Winchester profiles...
Vancouver Island-born and raised, I’ve never been on its West Coast. Nope, not even Tofino.
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sillygwailo: Why don’t the emphasized parts of a Terms of Service appear in an easier to read font, and not harder-to-read all caps? (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: confirming a password (typing it twice) makes more sense than confirming an email address, since I can see the latter and not the former (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: I can never tell if I’m talking too loudly on the phone when around other people. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: Looks like I’m going to sheepishly bust out my old macroeconomics textbook tonight to re-understand exchange rates. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: 1500 words and I’m only half-done my wrap-up of the ONA citizen media workshop. (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: NowPublic's Leonard Brody on the...
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sillygwailo: @counti8 sorry! had it on silent :( (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
sillygwailo: if God made something better than chocolate-covered pretzels, he kept that shit to Himself (via Twitter / sillygwailo)
Just a Gwai Lo: Margaret Talbot profiles David...
Season 5 to focus on the newspaper and how the media frames crime in the American city.
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