Pixels and Widgets

A blog by Tai Toh

Author: ttoh

  • We have no clue

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    At this point, it’s better to tell people right up front, ‘We don’t know,’ as opposed to trying to put out numbers that we’ll be dissatisfied with in maybe less than a week. // To put numerical ‘certainty’ on the Canadian and Ontario outlooks at this point in time . . . seems silly –…

  • Some good things about Drupal

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    [stag_intro]I am often overwhelmed with feelings of bitterness when I think about Drupal. My wife thinks it is cute that I am so passionate about a platform. [/stag_intro] Frequently, I tag entries referring to Drupal on my web journal with “suckage“. It’s horrible, but the sense of frustration I’ve had with Drupal is greater than…

  • Bill C-61: The Conservative Party of Canada is Insane

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    One formal definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different outcome. Canada’s DMCA is, by this measure, insane — and so is the party that insists on ramming it through. From BoingBoing.net (via Michael Geist’s Blog) regarding the reintroduction of Bill C-61 if the Conservatives are elected to government. Cory…

  • Where is the Drupal Joy?

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    [stag_intro]I realise that with any system there will always be challenges and new things to learn. The “Drupal Way” is very different from the “Tao of Textpattern”. Even today, I struggle to get the underlying concepts for how things are done in Drupal.[/stag_intro] I have always stood by the adage of using the “right tool…

  • Resume is finally up and running

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    So I finally had a chance to finish rebuilding my resume. It uses an identical “time line” metaphor from my old side, but this time it is standards compliant with a little bit of jQuery mixed into it. I’m working on my portfolio now. I am hoping that it will be done a bit more…

  • Book Making from 1947

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    This is a fascinating “How did they do it” from 1947. The movie features all of the moving parts for a book to be produced and mass-manufactured. I found the “type setter” job fascinating. I remember going to “Blackcreek Pioneer Village” and hand typsetting a small poem onto paper. It was a real pain. I…

  • “Directly responding to Apple’s campaign is weak…

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    Directly responding to Apple’s campaign is weak. It’s playing Pepsi to Apple’s Coke, Burger King to Apple’s McDonald’s. It’s an explicit acknowledgement that Microsoft is the second-place brand. From Daring Fireball regarding Microsofts new I’m a PC Ad John Gruber makes an excellent point. It’s almost like MS is asking Apple not to make fun…

  • I have no more mash potatoes for my Shepherd’s p…

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    I have no more mash potatoes for my Shepherd’s pie. Potato-to-meat ratio is all wrong.

  • Of Drupal Woes

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    [UPDATE: 10/16/2008] I take back most of what I think about the Zen Theme.  The more I poked around, the more I “got it”.  Great job by the guys at Lullabot. I’ve taken the last week and a half exploring Drupal. Some people say it’s the Cat’s Meow, but I say that it still needs a…

  • “We think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web…

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    In the long term, we think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on their operating…