I’m not dead, i swear.

I know I haven’t really posted this week, and I have a legit reason this time!

A while ago I was asked to build a web­site. I won’t explain what it’s about quite yet, as I’m still build­ing the theme for the thing, which has been an adven­ture. I always forget how finicky PHP is, and then I start coding in it for some­thing and I want to shoot myself in the head. It dies when you don’t think it would, and then works when by all logic it shouldn’t. Joy oh joy.

I’ll give a quick run­down of what’s been going on, and I’ll try and get some reviews out this week­end between coding stints.

Recently Bart and I went to Star­tup­Camp Toronto, a venue for new Cana­dian star­tups to demo what they’re strut their snazzy new 2.0 projects, and seek input (if they want) on what they’re trying to accom­plish. Five com­pa­nies demoed their wares, the high­lights amongst them being Defen­sio, Cake­Mail, and Invest­mate. It was really inter­est­ing to see how dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies set about accom­plish­ing their dreams. I wish I could post pic­tures I took, or give you a blow by blow of what went down, but I didn’t have any of the tools to do so with me. I will note that it took place about 200 metres from Corus Enter­tain­ment at No Regrets (which is as sexy a lounge as I’ve ever been in). The entire event was put together by the great folks at Star­tup­North

Hello one and all, I hope you’ve been keep­ing well! I’ve been pretty men­tally exhausted all week but I still man­aged to keep the con­tent rolling out. I’ve even man­aged to start a new book (already 160 pages in) and actu­ally do a bit of writ­ing (another chap­ter ‘done’) and gen­er­ally get­ting some tasks out of the way. It’s been a pro­duc­tive, but exhaust­ing week. So much trekking around, it’s insane.

If anyone’s been watch­ing this site in the past little while (I’m sure there’s gotta be at least 1 out there) they may have noticed a whole bunch of weird things going on with the site. I assure you they are all for the better. Since I’ve had such a heavy swing of reviews (it’s not pur­posely done, I just watched a bunch of movies and read a book within the same 3 days) I decided I would switch it up a bit.