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Raw data for the 2013 Liberal leadership results: you're welcome

Good on the Liberal Party of Canada for releasing riding-by-riding results as soon as the leadership vote was over. The website they used was decent enough for drilling down to a particular riding, but unfortunately they didn't publish machine-readable data that can be parsed and analysed with any …

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Portrait of a frozen city

As Winter reluctantly hands control over to Spring, a city just about to bloom is frozen in time. Branches yearning for the sun are wrapped in a cocoon of ice. Even street signs get caught in the cold, glacial embrace. Buds, about to burst from their shells, are trapped like flies in amber. The …

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Thoughts on a decade of digital media

Ten years ago, I had barely begun to use Google. I was using Search.com (run by C|Net) to explore the web, simply because I had guessed the URL one day and had never heard of other search engines. Lately, I've been reflecting on the state of digital media today, how I got here, and whether I'm more …

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Tweet from the address bar in Chrome and Firefox

Update (8 March 2014): The original title of this post was "Tweet from Chrome's address bar". I've updated it to include Firefox, which supports the same functionality. I love keyboard shortcuts. There's something satisfying about shaving off precious seconds from routine tasks, even if they are as …

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