Ergonomics and cleaning are very dull topics, I apologise in advance.

A pot of coffee consumed after five p.m. and the need to improve the ergonomics of my work space have lead me to cleaning my closet, recycling ten pounds of paper and plastic and moving my filing cabinet. I will now begin the Great Desk Lowering of Twenty Eleven.

According to may experts, it is very important for your typing surface to be slightly higher than your lap. I have always found a much high typing surface effective for those times when I need to pull out the legal pad to brainstorm and diagram, but I have started noticing more strain on my body from sitting and working for extended hours. Getting older is terrible, kids, avoid it at all costs.

Currently involved in several large projects that have taken my time away from doing much with this website.

Keep checking back. :)

This is an example of the Decayed theme, a free band website template.

Upcoming Gigs

• January 29, 2011 @ The Kool Haus, Toronto
• February 15, 2011 @ Hamilton Place Concert Theatre
• February 16, 2011 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto

Band Updates

We’re back in the studio recording our second album. It should be in stores for the summer.

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This is an example of the Grunge theme, a free band website template.

Upcoming Gigs

• January 29, 2011 @ The Kool Haus, Toronto
• February 15, 2011 @ Hamilton Place Concert Theatre
• February 16, 2011 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto

Band Updates

We’re back in the studio recording our second album. It should be in stores for the summer.

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This is an example of the Freestyle theme, a free band website template.

Upcoming Gigs

• January 29, 2011 @ The Kool Haus, Toronto
• February 15, 2011 @ Hamilton Place Concert Theatre
• February 16, 2011 @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto

Band Updates

We’re back in the studio recording our second album. It should be in stores for the summer.

This theme still needs some work.

The default display of image attachments to pages and blog posts needs some prettying up. Is it time to switch to a WYSIWYG editor with better inline image support? I think so!

There is certainly some appeal of Wordpress for blogging over Drupal. Drupal has a sparse, developers-only feel to a default installation. The media uploading system included by default with Wordpress is quite attractive, if a little confusing to new users.

Oh Triangle (the fish is named Triangle), why did you die? I am not terribly emotionally attached to you, as you have no fur or personality, but I feel sad for you partner Slag-a-thor whom you have left behind.

I woke up this morning and you were floating upside down, how sad.

The positive side of this is that you will no longer have any baby fish that I will have to take care of.

I will be playing around with the theme of this site over the next while. Thanks to Git, visitors won’t be forced to sit through the design change process. I have grown to love Git since working on my GSoC project last summer, gradually beginning to track everything at work as well as my little projects.

Web Fonts

While investigating the various methods of embedding web fonts, I was quite pleased that @font-face is finally ready for the limelight. I have forced myself to be satisfied with Helvetica and TNR until now, never believing that PHP- or javascript-based image-rendering web font replacement was the Right Thing To Do.

Who is talking? Who is listening?

Another week. I have not blogged in a few; life is busy!

This week was full of work. Interesting work, I must say.

Ryan (desrt) and I have been getting quite a bit accomplished in my quest to make email more accessable. We now have a working DBus api for folders lists.

Currently supports fetching from the server and updating the list of folders and their message counts.

The api is stable enough right now to write code based on it. Ryan is writing a bunch of fun command line utilities right now that use the api.