Archive for January 2006

Giant Helvetica Week: 969    (2006.01.31)

Since this is the postal plant we’re talking about here, its number is commonly misread as 666.

ATAG assessment of WordPress    (2006.01.30)

Just what it says: I wrote an assessment of WordPress’s compliance with Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG)

Little Leslieville, happy at last    (2006.01.28)

The Free City of Leslieville covered in today’s Globe and Mail (Toronto edition, page M5, 2006.01.28)

Kills bugs dead    (2006.01.27)

‘Bully: It’s the Pits’    (2006.01.25)

Happy dogs don’t need whole books defending them, do they?

Counting Lycra with DOS    (2006.01.25)

The portable inventory system for this store is indeed a suitcase-mounted computer running DOS attached to an Epson dot-matrix printer with tractor-feed paper.

They can’t upgrade to letter-quality?

And does it run WordPerfect 3.1?

Picking cherries in Pleasantville    (2006.01.23)

We just finished the arduous trio of 1555 (and, boy, am I tired of writing that number) and 1575 Queen and 1080 Eastern over on Leslieville. The buildings are approximately kitty-corner to the Pleasantville development, or, as it is officially known, Woodbine Park (also the name of the actual park). Trust me, they’re gonna get covered.

What is depicted below is indeed a cherrypicker sitting by itself in one of the Pleasantville laneways.

Note the absurd coloration of the houses, as if this were St. John’s or Linkjöping. Note also the fact that the cherrypicker is called a Manlift and is labeled in ITC Garamond Condensed and something Brodyesque that I don’t feel like looking up.

Maagism    (2006.01.23)

Bruno Maag on the interrelationship of typefaces, legibility, “branding,” and accessibility