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Goodbye LiveJournal
For reasons which are probably obvious, I've decided to move this log to my own server:
http://masalalabs.ca
The location may be different, but I plan on continuing to post approximately the same mix of personal, political and technical content. Hope to see you there! -
Podcamp Halifax Talk Notes
Today I gave a talk at Podcamp Halifax about OpenStreetMap, trying to stir up a bit of interest in "wikipedia for maps", particularly on the grassroots level here in the HRM. At the end, I promised I'd give the links to the various resources I cited in my presentation. If there's enough interest, I might try to write up a summary of what I was ( Read more... ) -
Livejournal FAIL
For the SECOND time, LiveJournal decided to replace one of my perfectly cromulent userpics with that of a Thai ladyboy (unfortunately taken down before I fully appreciated the humor in the situation). So if you're wondering why the image attached to this post (on livejournal) is stupid, that's why.
Apparently this is a known issue: livejournalGeobase: Free Canadian Geodata for all!
Up until today, I was under the impression that the options for someone wanting raw Canadian road data were quite limited. Yahoo and Google maps are great, but their terms of use prevent creative and novel use (it's against their terms of use create a derived work). OpenStreetMap is free of these restrictions, but its coverage can be kind of spotty ( Read more... )Macintosh Smackintosh
I picked up a Mac Mini earlier this week, primarily for work related reasons. The user interface is indeed as shiny as people claim, but I'm amazed at how often the whole operating system seems to _completely_ block on some stupid application. The most recent offender is iTunes: when faced with the task of copying a bunch of files from my desktop ( Read more... )Cuisine Bangkok
I'm in Montréal for a few days. Had some time to kill yesterday, so I decided to check out if Cuisine Bangkok in the Faubourg was still around. Yes, indeed it is and a good thing too. Way above average Thai cuisine at food court prices. I got a plate of green curry chicken (with carrot and potato) and spring rolls for under $7. Divine. How do they ( Read more... )
