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A few days ago, I snapped up horrell.name and horrell.info so now you can access this site at either domain, but horrell.ca is still the preferred one. And so the Horrell empire expands! Well, not really. I was tempted to get horrell.biz and horrell.mobi but

By Christopher Horrell 08 Sep 2006

Lawrence & Mt Pleasant

I went for one of my long meandering walks yesterday. It was the perfect day for walk: nice and cool, but not too much so. Anyway I decided to travel North up Mount Pleasant Rd. Lots of nice houses there and generally a pleasant neighbourhood. I eventually made it all

By Christopher Horrell 05 Sep 2006

Flash of Unstyled Content

There’s an interesting article over at Surfin’ Safari about FOUC or Flash of Unstyled Content. Anyone accessing my site using Safari will already know what this is if not what it’s called. Basically, it’s a glitch that happens when a website is rendered in a user agent

By Christopher Horrell 04 Sep 2006

Most Played 3

So here's something I haven’t done in a while. When I first bought my iMac and iPod 4 years ago, I kept a track of my current top 10 most played tracks (here and here). Well, here's the top 10 as of today: Song Artist

By Christopher Horrell 28 Aug 2006

Background Noise and Being Settled

The one thing that I'm surprised I've gotten used to since moving is the background noise I constantly hear from my open window. When I first moved into the apartment, it took a few nights for me to settle in. Most nights I can hear people

By Christopher Horrell 26 Aug 2006

Adding "post to" links for del.icio.us, digg, and ma.gnolia in Textpattern

Here’s how to add “post to” links for del.icio.us, digg, and ma.gnolia to individual articles in Textpattern. Update: Fixed it so the links add urlencoded titles to the output. It’s a bit ugly, but seems to work ok. And I’m having some issues with

By Christopher Horrell 05 Aug 2006

Morning Alarm

This morning was uniquely unpleasant. The fire alarm went off at 6:00 AM (!) and continued for at least 10-15 minutes. And what with the heat, I didn't exactly sleep well to begin with. I normally rise around 7:00 AM, so there was no point in going

By Christopher Horrell 01 Aug 2006

Life Without Television

Since moving into the apartment a few months ago I've been without a TV. It was an experiment and I wanted to see how long I'd last before breaking down. So, a few months later and truthfully, I really don't miss it that much

By Christopher Horrell 01 Aug 2006

It's Hot and I'm Bothered

Anyone currently in Toronto knows by now that we've been struck by a bit of a heat wave over the last few weeks. Today it hit a high of 34C with tomorrow hitting 37C (that's 95F and 98.6F for my American friends). Hot damn it&

By Christopher Horrell 31 Jul 2006

Cell Phone Displays

Today I sat in the local Starbucks. Nothing too unusual there. For the duration, though, I was distracted and disturbed by a man talking on his cell phone. He was outside, pacing back and forth and he had on one of those head sets that dangles down and somehow manages

By Christopher Horrell 04 Jun 2006

Scale with Rails Workshops

Jason is presenting some kick ass workshops on developing, deploying and financing Rails-based applications. To quote Jason: "The resulting workshop then is a two-day, focused, logical and complete bottom-to-top workshop where people can learn about how to staff, plan, manage, develop, stage, test, deploy, monitor, scale their Rails-based applications

By Christopher Horrell 09 May 2006

Local Cooling

For whatever reason, it’s been surprisingly cold outside. This confuses me somewhat, but I’m learning to adjust. On the other side of the coin, my apartment is always warm so I keep the windows open. This of course means that when it actually does get warm outside, my

By Christopher Horrell 08 May 2006
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