An interesting take on the obesity debate

An interesting take from an American Libertarian on the obesity problem in Canada. The article's a bit light on the science, but it's still a good read.

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IT Conversations: Jason Fried - Basecamp

IT Conversations: Jason Fried - Basecamp

A very nice podcast on software design philosophy. There's a lot of good ideas in here.

Particularly, Fried intruduced the idea of managing debt. It's kind of like my idea of do it right the first time, except that when a hack or shortcut is taken, mark it down and make sure it is revisited later. It's sort of what I was doing anyways, but it's nice to hear the idea verbalised so well.

My new journal on advertising

State of the Advertising is my new on-line journal about my thoughts on the state of advertising. Essentially, whenever I come accross an ad that annoys me to no end, or in the very, very rare case, one that I appreciate, I'll comment on it there.

I'm on Google Talk right now.

My gmail account is smithco@gmail.com. I presume that this is how you'll find me on Google Talk.

Google Talk = Google's new IM service that they're announcing tomorrow. All you need is a Jabber client, and a GMail address... read this and hop on the service today! (I'm not sure how long this will work, though.)

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Triskweline: A new fixed-width font for programmers

Triskweline: A new fixed-width font for programmers: "Triskweline"

Huzzah! A fixed width font that I can comfortably read at 10pt. Too bad it only works at 10p though; it would be just right at 12pt on my monitor.

A bit of work on the look

Changed the fonts and titles, hopefully a bit of an improvement. Eventually, the style should be an update of my CPSC page.

Create a Southpark Character

Saw the SP creator on digg; the good one is at http://spstudio.linda.hosting-friends.de/spstudio.html. See the previous post for the picture of me as an SP character.

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If I were a South Park character.