strangely entangled

I’m posting this article via my new Novus high-speed internet connection. Unlike Shaw high-speed, Novus is fully symmetrical. That means I get 10 Mbps on both downloads and uploads, and so far it is very, very sweet. The price is right too: $27.50 a month. The catch is that Novus is only available in certain buildings in Vancouver. Apparently [...]

Augh! The CBC has canceled my favourite new show, Douglas Coupland’s jPod. If you haven’t seen it already, head over to the show’s website and watch a couple episodes (all of the eps are online). It’s offbeat, quirky, filled with humor (dark and otherwise), and doesn’t hide the fact that it takes place in Vancouver, [...]

I’m doing a lot of web development work these days, and I have to say that I’m really digging Django. It’s a Python-based web application toolkit that makes it very simple to throw together a database-backed website, along the same lines as Ruby on Rails.
I tried RoR for awhile, but something about the framework (or [...]