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Mesh10 : five years of Meshing in Toronto

By Ian | May 21, 2010

This was the week for MESH and MESH U,which is a Toronto based conference which looks at “The Web” and how it is affecting the media, marketing, business and society as a whole. Mesh is in its 5th year and Mesh U (which is a more focused one for the on design, development and [...]

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Quick links as of May 21th 2010

By Ian | May 21, 2010

May 15th:
at Smashing Magazine comes a revisit of _why: Tale of a Post-Modern Genius, the sad tale of “Why the Lucky Stiff”, who made many vibrant and colourful contributions to the community, before deleting his online existence last August. The article is a great review of the whole arc and some useful links. [...]

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$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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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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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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