Monday, July 31, 2006

kslog gets tagged

Thanks to Improbulus at A Consuming Experience for his informative post explaining how to incorporate Technorati tags into Blogger posts easily.

Readers of kslog will now find appended to each post a short list of 'tags' which describe the content of that post. Click on a tag at the bottom of this post -- say, 'webdesign' -- and the page will jump to Technorati's list of posts that have been tagged with webdesign also. To learn more about tags and folksonomy, visit this wiki.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Le Jazz Hot

The Beaches International Jazz Festival is in full swing down on Queen St, this afternoon.

By 11 o'clock this morning, the temperature outside had already surpassed 30 degrees C. Even with the lake effect cooling the neighbourhood, this year's festival is going to be a sweltering one. I suggest hydrating frequently*; particularily good, local wet spots are Castro's and The Lion on the Beach, Murphy's Law. See you there.

The Anonymous Message Server

The Anonymous Message Server

Inspired by the letter W

Looking into WordPress as an alternative blogging tool. Sharing this with you because I love the front page - Serif fonts have really been tickling my fancy lately.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Performancing

This post is brought to you by the WYSIWYG, Firefox-friendly blog editor, Performancing.  I've just downloaded the extension.  Click here to give it a try.

Wired News: Young Coders Summer on Google

Wired reports on Google's Summer of Code initiative. This is one of the coolest youth employment programs I've heard of in a while. Successful applicants spend their summers developing open source code for Google. Pretty good for the resume. But the best of it is that each student is hooked up with a Geek Industry mentor of their very own!

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Top 35 Torrent Sites of 2006

About.com hosts an up to date list of the most popular torrent sites here.

Friday, July 21, 2006

montrealshows.com -- montreal's indie resource/gossip center

Googled upon montrealshows.com
while trying to get my weekend trip to Montreal(did you guess, you clever goose?) rolling. Can't visit one of North America's most vibrant artistic centres and not see any bands play. Wouldn't be right.

The site has looks going for it, with a graphic rivalarly with StillPoste to boot. Unfortunately, all the shows were from May and before and the last blog update from made in the cold months.

If you can reccomend a show in Montreal this weekend, please let me know. Email me at ksavo at the hotmailio or leave a msg on Conk's mobile.

1GB free web storage: Box.net

Have just created an account at Box.net for a gig of free web storage. I didn't read the Terms of Use page, so maybe I've just signed away the rights to anything I store there, but for now the service is (hopefully) a way of storing a set of images that will be used in the upcoming re-templating of this blog.

Fantastic feature of the site is a little applet that opens a window into which you can drag and drop your files and folders instead of the hassle of selecting them one at a time.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Parkdale stole my saddle

My initiation into Parkdale life and culture began two nights ago when my bicycle saddle was stolen by a thief roaming Queen St W. It seems the cyclaphobe also had an interest in my front wheel, but thankfully didn't take that as well, for whatever reason. Biking home without a seat was tiring at 2:30 in the morning; walking a seatless, one wheeled bike all the way back to Lansdowne and Bloor would have been worse.

The next day at work, Madison informed me that his and Air's bikes had been vandalized/damaged while we were all drinking at the Beaver. Madison's chain had been derailed and Air's tire had been slashed/deflated. Bike vandals suck.

Now, about the Beaver. You should go. There are local and regional beers on tap; $13 for a pitcher of any of them. You can eat a delicious bowl of fruit, yogurt, and granola costing $4.95 for breakfast, or have a simple side of bread and olives at the same cost later in the day. The staff are low key and friendly enough. Artists like the place, and the crowd is social and interesting.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Lansdowne sketch


Behold the view from my room on Lansdowne Ave. Vegetable gardens on either side and many, many rooftops.

(Pardon the crumby framing job.)

Lost phone means I'm email-only for now

Automata Emily has promised to have a Bell Canada customer representative call me back between twenty-two and forty-seven minutes from now. At that point, I will ask the rep to 1) locate my phone using its GPS signal, then, if they refuse/are unable to share the GPS information with me, 2) I will ask him/her to put my SIM card on lock down until it either resurfaces or I buy a new one.

I'm sorry to have missed your calls and txts.