January 2009
71 posts
Accounting 101: The Fundamentals →
RT @DRLnow: The Star: City Favours Relief Line Over Subway http://is.gd/hFx7 #DRLnow
Depixelate — Ruby, Rails, and more →
Reading about potential for nested model forms in Rails 2.3: http://tinyurl.com/d6u8eh
On a business trip in Neenah, Wisconsin. It’s colder here than Toronto!
#changecamp - more toronto.ca/opendata ideas: geo coding, schedules, voting records, cash records, zoning changes, complaint tracking…
Good ideas to put on toronto.ca/opendata - cycle paths, public committee meetings, emergency incidents, historical water quality #changecamp
At #changecamp talking about a design for toronto.ca/opendata -http://twitpic.com/16o6d
#changecampbar (after #changecamp) is also at HackLab TO: http://hacklab.to/location/
RT @larrylarry - #changecampbar at Mickey Fynn’s after closing session #changecamp - it’s on the ground floor of College Park, on College.
#changecamphyperbole - “We created the best app known to mankind”
RT @lisatorjman - #changecamp is #1 on Twitter globally…something in the Toronto air
#changecamp bar change - it’s at Pogue Mahone Irish Pub
everyone is starting to filter back into the main auditorium for the end of #changecamp
#changecamp - more on toronto.ca/opendata - track train routes, amount of traffic, tagging geocode data to support communities…
listening to @bradttc talking about opening up city governments to the public more…
#changecamp - more toronto.ca/opendata - tourism info, public health events, budgets (as raw as possible), well-strucutred meta-data…
#changecamp - talking about Toronto’s 311 service, should have tickets, that can be tracked, can be grouped, sorted, find similar ideas…
#changecamp - even more toronto.ca/opendata - records of tenders (outstanding and awarded), info mayor’s initiatives, beaches…
RT @anthimeria - Olivia Chow at #changecamp. @jacklayton She promised your Twitter would be more of a two-way street. Make it happen!
Wondering about #changecamp ? More info at http://changecamp.ca/
Wondering about #changecamp ? It’s an event that asks citizens to answer: “How do we re-imagine government in the age of participation?”
RT @mmilan - Where’s my parliamentary realtime backchannel feed? #changecamp
Olivia Chow showed up for #changecamp, @lisatorjman is going to add her to the audio blog…
RT @WholeChild - #changecamp Note to self: See a showing of “Us Now” http://tinyurl.com/amsa5d
Trying to fill out the schedule for ChangeCamp at http://tinyurl.com/ajqnse
getting back together in one big group for #changecamp - lots of talk about “new” way of doing things vs the “old” way
RT @mrjcleaver - At #changecamp, how do I get my tweets to show on http://changecamp.scribblelive.com/Event/ChangeCampTO ?
RT @colinchan - finally arrived at Macworld, er, I mean #changecamp - hard to tell the difference with all the macbooks here
On the video screen at #changecamp - “Can we all govern?”
talking about information filtering at #changecamp - how do we get the best ideas out there from all our information sources?
we have a few members in our group that want to provide more regular feedback to governments between elections #changecamp
Listening to @remarkk kick off #changecamp - attendees have not fully woken up yet!
Everyone is introducing themselves at #changecamp - nice to meet you
we have someone from the City of Toronto in our group at #changecamp who seems really interested in learning about new ideas!
RT @cstampeen: Shoe museum & Hockey Hall of Fame. Toronto has both. Make you want to come visit? If we threw in moose statues on corners?
RT @cbcarts: Back from brink, Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille reports surplus http://tinyurl.com/9qyy7c
RT @DRLnow: The TTC promised a new downtown subway in 1985 to open by 1998, because “we’ll need relief”. http://twitpic.com/15kk0 #drlNOW
RT @Russ_Morgs: Street fighter on youtube… this must have taken ages to create http://bit.ly/1iAIIK
RT @craigritchie: Whitehouse.gov adopts Creative Commons license. @michaelgeist shows us the Canadian stance here: http://tinyurl.com/755f7h
RT @arstechnica (via @chriskayTO) How Canadian ISPs throttle the internet - http://ping.fm/8kplA
Heading out (a bit late) to Rails Pub Nite at the Rhino in Toronto
Awesome cyclist idea (via Spacing Blog): “Lightlane” uses a laser to project a virtual bike lane around the rider: http://bit.ly/5xbF
RT @changecamp: What is the change you want to see? Tag: #ChangeCamp
Former fed. trans.min. David Collenet will speak at a symposium for high-speed rail in Ontario and Quebec, Jan 31: http://highspeedrail.ca/
RT @UnionSt: @cbcradio Plz avoid decisions like: “Video clips at CBC Video are currently only available in the Windows Media format”
RT @teledyn: What if teams of young volunteers did a systematic in-house social media training of all current MP’s & MPP’s? #changegovca
RT @lisatorjman: olivia chow wants to be involved with #changecamp but doesn’t know how she’d fit in. the call to action - just come.
RT @CBCRadio3: You’d have to be crazy not to check out this week’s podcast feat. Polaris winner, Caribou. Crazy. http://tinyurl.com/6tm8x7
Whoops! I just remembered that Rails Project Night is tonight in Toronto at the Rich Media Institute: http://bit.ly/mEhw