Smiling
March 8, 2013From April 2012:
Cardinals
March 7, 2013Both of the houses we've had in Leslieville in Toronto have been graced with cardinals at our bird feeders. I'm glad of that, they're pretty birds, and seemingly well-behaved. This pair was at our feeder all spring, and had a child in tow by summertime...
Picky Eater, Ahi Tuna
February 23, 2013My son, who has been a picky eater for most of his (relatively short) life, has not historically been a big eater of fish. So, when we stopped by Hooked this morning, and he chose some Ahi Tuna, I didn't put a lot of thought into making sure we got...
Are Markets Rational?
February 20, 2013Planet Money #70: The Myth of Rational Markets (from mid-2009) discusses the idea that markets are rational, suggesting that you can, for instance, use the price of a house on the real estate market to determine the true value of a house.
I have a...
On Middleman
February 19, 2013When I first started on the renovation for my personal site, I had intended to put it into Octopress. Its plain-text, markdown-aware model works well with me and it had the reputation for being more capable than Jekyll, which I've used on GitHub, while still being pretty simple to use. Before digging into Octopress, I built a static version of my site, both so I could post it and so that I knew what layout and content I wanted to put into Octopress. That could be seen as my mistake.
Welcome
February 14, 2013Welcome. I've finally gotten a personal blog running again, this time using Middleman. I'm going to write up my thoughts about Middleman and Octopress soon, since that's fresh on my mind.