A few months ago, we needed more desks for our office, so I figured I’d order them from the Ikea website. Easy to do, except that the Ikea.ca store doesn’t work with US credit cards, and our corporate card is a US card. So I bite my tongue about the craziness of e-commerce [...]

(The title is a a cute translating trick I picked up in a Tim Horton’s)
La semaine dernière, j’ai eu le plaisir de faire une présentation sur Thunderbird à la CLLAP (Version PDF, version Slideshare)– la conference sur les logiciels libres et les administrations publiques.
Last week, I had the pleasure of giving a talk on Thunderbird [...]

Jane got robbed on her train ride back from ETech.
That brings to mind my experience with a vancouver thief, which, it turns out, did not end there, but I never updated this pseudo-historical record of random events.
On closer inspection of the garage, we found that in addition to stealing two bikes, they’d left a glove. [...]

You know your’re in Canada when the email newsletter from the grade school says:
LAST CHANCE

To Sign-up for
CURLING

Speaking of which, has everyone seen the latest sports highlight newsreel? It’s quite charming. One of the best curling shot in history.