Archive for January 2006

Quest for nightmare tables    (2006.01.17)

The PDF/UA Committee is looking for worst-case scenarios of real-world tables. The purpose? To make the PDF accessibility spec better than reality

City report on megabins    (2006.01.17)

Added: City of Toronto staff report on megabins (plus an oddball nugget about the Toronto Public Space Committee)

Megabin survey results published    (2006.01.13)

City of Toronto survey data on megabins published

Crunching the numbers on megabins    (2006.01.13)

Online respondents hate Toronto’s proposed new billboards disguised as garbage cans, but telephone and in-person respondents tend to like them

‘Cleanup in Aisle 6’    (2006.01.13)

Winter blizzard? Arctic conditions of the sort the British faced two weeks ago, where temperatures plummeted to an unfathomable –2°C? Another ice storm?

Nope: A pipe blew at the Weston bakery, covering Eastern Avenue in flour. They had to call in the biggest land Zamboni I’ve ever seen to hoover it up.

Corrugation    (2006.01.12)

Where exactly do you get a pickup body made of corrugated steel?

Body & ‘Paint’ Shop?    (2006.01.10)

Could better paint on the Body & Paint Shop’s sign be in order?

Oh, never mind. We like the weathered look.

The Free City of Leslieville    (2006.01.09)

My new site about Leslieville, my neighbourhood in Toronto, launches today