01 Jul 2007 “what a drag”, indeed (annoyances, canada, media)

On the Canada Day theme, I just want to harp on one of my favourite targets: bad statistics in the media. The Globe and Mail has a prominently featured article, Canadian citzenship and the generational divide, which claims that something called “The Dominion Institute” has found there are “remarkably different attitudes among those between […]

10 Jun 2007 fulminations (annoyances)

Things I’ve expressed my disgust, disdain or downright loathing of in the past few days. Alphabetically. I’ve been under a lot of stress.
the films of Theo Angelopoulos
The Arctic Monkeys
Zach Braff
George Bush
Noam Chomsky
the cliche of hating on George Bush
Dane Cook
Stephane Dion
Rebecca Eckler
Riley Finn
the cancellation of Firefly
French socialists
Garden State
Paul Haggis
Stephen Harper
hyperparametric models
Paul Martin
MATLAB and its publisher […]

09 May 2007 anatomy of a Firefox bug (annoyances, internet, programming)

A long-term annoyance for me in Firefox is the bug that truncates text in an ALT tag. This is most noticable in web comics which like to put commentary in the image tags.