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Improving the VrtuCar reservation page 6 Sep 2011 | 02:05 pm
The VrtuCar reservation page sort of sucks. It works, but it’s ugly: It’s also hard to use, as it: mixes available cars with unavailable cars, gives tables varying widths, places the reservation b...
Second Cup isn’t Fair Trade 10 Feb 2011 | 06:59 am
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed that Second Cup started sporting a Fair Trade logo on their signage. Being the kind of person that thinks people should be paid a reasonable wage, and knowing that cof...
The die is cast 14 Jan 2011 | 01:51 pm
Remember the prorogation kurfuffle? No, not the one in 2009 one. The first one. It looks like history is about to repeat itself. Mr. Harper has announced that he wants to eliminate government subsid...
Blogawa gets three more contributors 26 Nov 2010 | 01:05 pm
Blogawa.ca now has three new contributors: our geeky pals at Zone 12, the highly fashionable Dare to Unravel, and the contentariffic Hello Ottawa. ((blogawa++)++)++
Making it big, geek style 25 Nov 2010 | 06:10 am
For some of us, making it big is getting cross posted to the Make blog. By that measure, the folks on Ottawa’s Zone 12 Project blog have made it with Nigel Vezeau’s fantastic child-size recumbent trik...
FeedWordPress broke my heart 22 Nov 2010 | 03:42 pm
For the past couple of weeks, Blogawa has been misbehaving. It’s been quietly ignoring posts from Perspective Ottawa. I use FeedWordPress to aggregate posts from around town, so this weekend I looked ...
My name in lights (minus the name) 22 Nov 2010 | 09:40 am
Boo! After hours of hard work, I managed to get an AWN helper (nerdspeak for “a thing that shows stuff on my computer’s status bar”) for Workrave included in the official distribution (nerdspeak for “...
ScraperWiki goes local 12 Nov 2010 | 12:06 pm
ScraperWiki just got a little more awesome. Dave0 put together a scraper that crawls the City of Ottawa website and makes the development applications machine readable.
Portable scraping with ScraperWiki 11 Nov 2010 | 06:15 am
A couple of years back I floated the idea of portable website scrapers that would be able to programmatically pull information off of websites regardless of language and platform. The folks at Scraper...
