Gwyneth Ivy Robertson was born on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 at 7:20 a.m. at the Guelph General Hospital. She weighed in at 7 pounds 14 ounces. We are thrilled to announce the safe arrival of our little beauty. Mom, Dad, Liam and Gwyneth are all doing well and resting at home…
(more…)I thought it an interesting coincidence that yesterday, Bob Rae mentioned Wikipedia during his keynote speech. Earlier that morning I had mentioned Wikipedia and politicians during my own presentation, so I decided to ask Bob about updating his own entry.
In an even more interesting coincidence, today’s keynote covered virtually the same topics I had been talking about yesterday – although admittedly with a bit more detail and eloquence.
(more…)I was speaking at the Ontario Universities Computing Conference (OUCC) today about Knowledge & Learning in the Internet Age. I think it’s an interesting topic and there was some good discussion, but an hour didn’t leave us all that much time to cover the material in much detail.
During my presentation I talked about Wikipedia and how the accuracy of some topics can be in question—particularly for politically sensitive topics, or the entries for politicians.
(more…)After seeing the Hoverbox Image Gallery developed by Nathan Smith, I thought that a similar approach would work very nicely for a menu. This would allow you to create a much larger rollover image for each menu item, overlapping the neighbouring menu items and other elements on the page.
The original Hoverbox code uses two img elements, one for the thumbnail and one for the larger image. For a menu it’s more important to avoid duplicating the links themselves, and I also wanted to control the image with CSS rather than img elements. This meant making some changes to the original Hoverbox code.
Happy Easter!
I thought today would be a good time to look back at some of the more popular posts from the past year. It’s both great inspiration to get the momentum going in posting new entries, as well as helping new readers get caught up with some of the more interesting entries in the archive.
Here are the 5 most popular posts from the last year.
I should also mention that all the feedback I’ve received on these articles (and software) has been really great. In particular, I’m really happy to see so many people from outside Canada and North America visiting. I only wish I could read all the languages on the sites that are linking here!
This weekend we drove up north to visit my wife’s family for Easter. It was nice seeing everyone, but the drive was very long. On the bright side, that gave Catherine and I a chance to talk about all sorts of things—her Scrap-booking party, renovations we’d like to make on our house, the new baby we’re expecting, and even the fact I haven’t updated my blog for a while.
It’s one of those things that I keep stopping and starting. I’ll post frequently for a few weeks, only to let things slide for a while and drift into “radio silence” for a bit. The more time goes by and I haven’t made a new post, the more I feel like I need something significant to write about before I can get started again. That’s something I really need to change.
So—here we are! Resuming our regular broadcast schedule. For real. Honest.
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