Monthly Archives: March 2009

Stuff

Riding across Canada

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For the last month or so, I’ve been helping my friend Garret Reynolds, get his website launched for his bike-across-Canada this coming spring. He’s finishing off his M.ENG at the University of Guelph this semester. No he’s not doing this solo, he’ll be accompanied with his friend Dylan along the entire journey.

They will be starting off in Victoria, BC. (I guess you gotta start somewhere and Vancouver Island is the place!) Then they’ll head through Vancouver and make their way through the Rockies and somehow end up in Newfoundland.

Since I am from Vancouver, I’ll probably spend a few days prior to their trip giving them a hand in getting the last few things together. I believe they’re aiming to start on May 1st, 2009.

Updates to follow in the next few weeks!

For now, check out his website
http://www.canadianodyssey.ca/

Note: I have nothing to do with his layout and design; I was only there for technical aid.

Stuff

vancouver city cameras

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Hang the cameras and leave them up there after! I don’t know about you, but I have nothing to hide….
Europe/UK have tons of cameras, I think people in North America complain too much.
Whats the point in installing all this infrastructure for 4 months of use, only to tear it down after? Put it to good use! Maybe it’ll lower the drug and crime problem we have.

CSE/NSA already have the systems to monitor you anyways. (no, I’m not a conspiracy theorist; this is more-or-less reality)

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Technology

ie8

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Well….Microsoft released IE8 today to the world. I haven’t tried any of the beta versions which have been released over the last few years…

First thoughts…

  • It definitely loads faster
  • Top bar is too thick…gotta disable some of those toolbars. Screen real estate is key and the default IE settings don’t cut it.
  • The lighbox javascript doesn’t work …typical though since their API has probably changed which breaks ajax and js scripts (not smart)
  • EPIC ACID3 TEST FAIL – 20/100! (click here to test)

Hopefully there is some sorta patch for the Acid3 test. I’d like to see IE get at least 50/100!
Firefox 3.0.7 currently scores a 71/100 on both PC & Mac.
Chrome scores a perfect 100/100 and loads extremely fast.
Safari beta 4 also scores a 100/100 (my mac friend gave it a try on his computer)

Lastly, the compatability mode seems to render the browser in an IE7 shell which allows the lightbox to work on the images below. I tested my theory below.

User agent string w/o compatibility:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.1; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

User agent string w/ compatibility:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.1; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

So….when is IE8 going to work with acid3 properly?