Breakfast of Champions
My Friday guilty pleasure.

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A site that we did a while back has received a facelift courtesy of our team.
The www.citizenvoices.gg.ca is aimed at a younger audience; and is to be an outreach from the Governor General to those around her (in a way that her official canadian gov site can’t do - we don’t work on that [...]

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I love our office — somehow Nancy captures the way it feels.

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I’ve been storing some information in my Entourage notes which should really be kept secured behind a password; I had tried out some of the shareware apps that let you keep passwords/records/notes in a secure fashion — but they always seems clunky/slow and not 100% trustworthy.
I recently found out that my mac already has an [...]

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Second Update: The latest MBP firmware seems to have solved my problems completely. Ars Technica ‘officially’ details the problem — too bad Apple won’t give more details on what this latest update fixes. Let me know if this update solves your issues also.

Update: The work around below did not work. Further reading and investigation leads [...]

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the shark strikes
We had a great time playing pool with the Plank team last night and drinking a few beers. Great shot of Allen by Nancy.

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Snowy scene by the church
Snow started fluttering down around lunch today and kept at it ’til 8pm or so.
Some in our office have said their goodbyes to winter; so this came as a cold-wet-downer.

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helistevey
Plank is tough place to work - especially when you’re playing with remote controlled helicopters (thanks Mitch!!).
Dueling Mini R/C Copters

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Some action items Canadians can follow to help support Tibet;
“An important message from the Canada Tibet Committee:
As the world has witnessed the atrocities and repression being systematically carried out by Chinese military authorities against peaceful demonstrations in Tibet, more and more of you have asked how you can help and what you can do.”
Read the [...]

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(click here for large version of screenshot above)
Finally Safari 3.1 (released on 08/03/18) is offering some built in web developer tools that are accessible through a checkbox in the advanced prefs.
I’m not a huge active developer like I used to be, but I still know my way around HTML/CSS and some JS and this will [...]

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Elbert McLaughlin has started blogging.
He’s one of the smartest guys I know, and after spending a couple days with him in Texas, I’m convinced he’s destined for great stuff.
A bit about Elbert…
“I’m the Technical Director at PeopleLikeUs, a small web agency. I’m also acting CTO and a cofounder of WEBCARGO. I’m jazzed by innovation, [...]

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Damn good tacos
Love this lettering, shape, colour and presentation. On 6th Street in Austin, TX.

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See the slideshow above or check the full flickr set here; Plank @ SXSW 2008.

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Birds in Austin, Texas from stevey on Vimeo.
Read more about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Grackle

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You can find me on Twitter here. If you don’t know what twitter is…
“Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time.”
It’s something I might use much more if I had an iphone, which I will have once they’re available here; @ ver 2.1 and the plan isn’t $$$. But we’ll see [...]

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