Friday, April 11th, 2008
I’ve decided that the long dark night of the previous template needed to change with the season, and I’m the process of putting a new theme on the blog, and doing a lot of much needed behind the scenes upgrades and maintenance. Things will probably take a day or two to get sorted out, and some pages may not display properly during that time. Please be patient, and everything will be sorted out soon.
Meanwhile, feel free to watch the video screencast—something I’m planning on doing more often with the revamped site.
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
You can now order web design gear from the Design Meme store. Current items include a head tag hat, a body tag shirt, a strong cup of coffee, and a bib to help your fussy eater subscribe to feed.
All products are 100% guaranteed to make you a better web designer… or at least look like one. 
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
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Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
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…
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
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.
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
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.
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