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TwitterYou’ve probably heard of “Lorem Ipsum” placeholder text if you’ve ever done any kind of design or page layout work. It’s a standard bit of pseudo-latin that goes into page layouts before the copy has been finalized. But that’s boring: everyone’s using it. So a few of us at the office yesterday were thinking that we could use [...]
Tips & Tricks
Sippy Cups
We have now gone through about 10 sippy cups since Leo learned how to drink from them. If there’s one piece of advice I can now offer to other parents of toddlers, it’s this: stock up on sippy cups. Either they get misplaced, left behind someplace, or the little stopper thingy in them gets lost, [...]
Tracking Packages
Avoid tracking packages online when you order something. It’s just discouraging. I just ordered some computer components from a company in Vermont (using Claire’s credit card, in case you’re wondering how I accomplished such a feat without my wallet) and they gave me a UPS tracking number for my package after they had shipped it. [...]
A Terrible Thing
On Saturday, I was getting Leo ready to go for a walk to the mailbox to drop off some letters. His usual hats were in the wash, so I fished out his “baseball cap with earflaps”. I put the hat on him and sat him down on the floor while I got my stuff together. [...]
Political Cybersquatting
Cybersquatting is wrong, period. You don’t take somebody else’s personal or business name, add .info or .net to it, and register it as your own. And you especially don’t try to mislead Internet users into thinking the site they’ve arrived at is sponsored by the entity whose name you’ve stolen. Today, a piece on CBC [...]
Biking With Beta
I do a fair bit of biking around town, and every summer I try to ride to work on nice days. Today, I figured I’d bring Beta along to the office. I’ve ridden with her before; she’s a wickedly fast dog with surprising endurance. She runs the other dogs ragged when we bring her to [...]