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Things that make you go Weee!

$400 fine and 3 demerit points for the life of 79 year old Siu Mui Lam

By Ian | February 10, 2010

Siu Mui Lam (also known as Mrs. Wong, born 1930) was killed by a dump truck driver on June 23, 2009 (the second day of City strike) when she crossed an intersection at St. Helen’s street/ Bloor before a STOP sign.
The impact was so huge, that head and body was severely disfigured, and she pronounced [...]

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Using an iPod as a travel device and the what could be (aka the tripPad™)

By Ian | December 6, 2009

This fall I was lucky to travel to Berlin and Paris on vacation, but as I geek I of course brought along a computer or 2.
On last years trip to Los Angles I had a NetBook (Aspire One) and using our friends WiFi was able to keep up on email and access the locations I [...]

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Changes in the Junction : Jocelyn’s Place, a Stop Light & Buddha Pie

By Ian | October 16, 2009

This fall has seen a few changes in Toronto’s west end Junction neighborhood (of New York Times fame):
Bronto Burger is now Jocelyn’s Place (2982 Dundas St. West, just west of Pacific Ave.), with a new owner but same menu/price and deco (at least for now). The food and service continue to be as good.

The [...]

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Five films from the TIFF

By Ian | September 22, 2009

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. I hope the DVD has English subtitles and translation so I can understand [...]

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A few Toronto Festivals in September: Junction Arts, Ukrainians, Poles and Movie Stars

By Ian | August 28, 2009

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 works to over 150,000 people transforming Dundas Street West into a pedestrian-only, urban cultural destination.
September [...]

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Sacha Chua shares her Lotus Notes mail merge from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet

By Ian | August 27, 2009

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 on Coding, Sharing, Story telling, and Connecting!

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Found Words: “Ramen Profitable” also “Sirloin Profitable” and “Ferrari Profitable”

By Ian | July 29, 2009

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 evident.
or maybe that should be “Sushi/Lexus Profitable” or “Toro/GT-R Profitable”, to keep it [...]

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Dufflet takes the cake at U.S. food show, Ian takes the Photo

By Ian | July 7, 2009

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) a photo (with Attribution) I had taken of their Beach location (1917 Queen St. East) [...]

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Toronto’s Junction in New York Times

By Ian | July 5, 2009

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 of a 36 Hours in Toronto but on its own! (we are not yet [...]

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Kandyse McClure (BSG’s Anastasia “Dee” Dualla) glamour shots

By Ian | June 30, 2009

Rising star and Actress Kandyse McClure (born Candice McClure) and African-Canadian beauty, know to fans of Sci-Fi/Scy-Fy channels Battlestar Galactica as Anastasia “Dee” Dualla, recently did a shoot in Mexico with photographer Darryl Humphrey, a horse, and not much else! (She may have been filming for TV series “Persons Unknown“)

I’ve been told that the glamour shots [...]

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