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Nothing like a sprawling shopping mall in December to get me in a killing mood.

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Build systems are always kind of problematic, but with Go, "delete and rebuild everything all the time" is quite fine. :-)

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What’s the Ideal Distance from Farm to Fork? | By Geoff Thomas | Pierre Desrochers on the Local Food Debate and Myths | University of Toronto Magazine - http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/leading...

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A big diesel boat is a pretty efficient way to move things around, it turns out. I still think they should have sails on those guys, but I'm wacky like that sometimes. - Pierre Phaneuf

I'm starting to think that Go might be as acceptable as C++, with different pain points..

Friday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@macournoyer Your Confoo talk looks very interesting, even though that is becoming less and less true. ;-)

Friday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Another day, another crack-induced patch.

Thursday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Exit music after Nitzer Ebb: Monty Python's "Look on the Bright Side of Life".

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

EBM invasion for the opening act of Nitzer Ebb!? Uh, ok, I'll tough it out...

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Being off-season for Bixi makes me want to buy a bunch of cheap bike and leave them around places I go to. :-P

Wednesday from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@skrud I wasn't sure if I recognized you, the Google crew was at the table near the bar (blocking your way, I think!). :-)

December 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@skrud Are you at Hurley's for the game, per chance?

December 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@kernelslacker Overly expensive HDMI cables is one of my pet peeves. Which part of "digital" don't they get?!?

December 1 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@nanananini What, are you stuck wi MySQL?

November 30 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@wlach What do you use Wave for? I find it is like a thing where I can make one-off wiki pages of sort, but better (interactive, gadgets)...

November 30 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@VR0 I remember getting Pirelli Wintersports for the Linuxmobile, $200 per corner!

November 28 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@sirjoltalot I think my longest was this year's RAMROD, for almost 150 km! But that was tough, a century is serious stuff.

November 27 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@sirjoltalot Metric century? 100 km bike ride? I'm a bit surprised you if you hadn't done that before!

November 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@hfiguiere Or CompuServe, even. Remember what happened to that one?

November 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@VR0 That's rather distressing, much like how it is cheaper *and* faster to *fly* to Kitchener!

November 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@VR0 That's a normal train, and a rather slow one, at that. Well, in normal parts of the world, anyway! ;-)

November 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child - http://science.slashdot.org/story...

November 26 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

No kidding. Not to mention the general practice of using anti-bacterial agents (like you see in dispensers all over the place) in a non-thorough way (and believe me, if you're not a surgeon, you're not thorough) basically kills only the easily killed bacteria, leading to... leaving the tough "super-bacteria" around. Yeah, I want more of those around. Uh, no. - Pierre Phaneuf

Living in a browser - http://diveintomark.org/archive...

November 26 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

Thinking hard about it, the only stuff I do outside of a browser is this: development stuff (duh), games, BitTorrent, video (and then, only on my TV, most videos I watch on my laptop are in the browser already). Note that pretty much everything except the development stuff would be taken care of by a more "normal" device than a Mac mini hooked up to my TV (say, a game console, and/or something like an Apple TV), although to get the same level of functionality, the movies/TV industry would need to get some sense beaten into it (I'd gladly pay Apple $20 for Top Gear as it comes out, for example, but all there is now is the cut-down North American version, two seasons back, and possibly only on iTunes US, not Canada). - Pierre Phaneuf

@macournoyer Well, considering the number of times it screwed me over, yeah, make sure you have backups! ;-)

November 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@macournoyer I'm a "NoSQL" kind of guy these days, and if I do need SQL, I'd take PostgreSQL in a jiffy.

November 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@AccordionGuy The ad I got on that post of yours was for Palin's book, quite appropriate!

November 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@macournoyer Using MySQL? Yow.

November 26 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

@macournoyer Also, it doesn't scale too well, not without an army of ninjas, anyway (but my sense of "scale" might be broken now).