http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/news-views/news/smoke-on-the-border-8791/
A good read about a fire that is blown way out of proportion.
Diane Colley-Urquhart is a jerk. Who the hell voted in this soulless heathen?
-Will
A blog written mostly about Calgary happenings, including infrastructure, politics and more!
Friday, February 24, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Alberta Budget 2012 online
The Alberta budget for 2012 just went online and can be found here:
http://budget2012.alberta.ca/index.html
I haven't read much of it yet, but it seems pretty par for the course, a manilla envelope in front of a beige wall. Mediocrity, yet again.
nothing in there about our damn high speed train ... grumble grumble...
-Will
http://budget2012.alberta.ca/index.html
I haven't read much of it yet, but it seems pretty par for the course, a manilla envelope in front of a beige wall. Mediocrity, yet again.
nothing in there about our damn high speed train ... grumble grumble...
-Will
Thank you Apple, for Microsoft.
Here is a blog you should read:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/
It's about what MS is doing with Windows 8, when you look at your new copy of Office 2010, and think to yourself "WHY ON GODS GREEN EARTH DID THEY HIDE THE ONLY !@!#?!@! THAT I KNEW HOW TO FIND" you will find a thoughtful, mechanical, statistically backed up reason behind every UI adjustment that they've made to MS products (the exact opposite of how governments work). While I was completely caught off guard when they brought in the "ribbon" it didn't take long for me to love the ribbon. The ribbon is peaceful, powerful, zen. Learn to leverage it to your use, and you too can be a ribbon lover.
Before this degrades into a penthouse forum letter about the ribbon, I want to quickly mention why the title. I hate/love Apple. Mostly hate. Apple, however makes great designs because they care about the integration of form and function of their product all the way through (hardware to software) and they have now eaten enough market share to shove that lesson down Microsoft's throat.
I love the ribbon,
-@willcwf
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/
It's about what MS is doing with Windows 8, when you look at your new copy of Office 2010, and think to yourself "WHY ON GODS GREEN EARTH DID THEY HIDE THE ONLY !@!#?!@! THAT I KNEW HOW TO FIND" you will find a thoughtful, mechanical, statistically backed up reason behind every UI adjustment that they've made to MS products (the exact opposite of how governments work). While I was completely caught off guard when they brought in the "ribbon" it didn't take long for me to love the ribbon. The ribbon is peaceful, powerful, zen. Learn to leverage it to your use, and you too can be a ribbon lover.
Before this degrades into a penthouse forum letter about the ribbon, I want to quickly mention why the title. I hate/love Apple. Mostly hate. Apple, however makes great designs because they care about the integration of form and function of their product all the way through (hardware to software) and they have now eaten enough market share to shove that lesson down Microsoft's throat.
I love the ribbon,
-@willcwf
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
4 new Rec Centres will finally go ahead for Calgary
My man Nenshi announced today:
http://blog.calgarymayor.ca/2012/02/media-release-funding-solution-for-4.html
We're going to go ahead with the new (desperately) needed rec centres for the city. Rec centres are my favourite projects to work on (my first project was the SW Edmonton Rec Centre that's my terrible render on the left!) Apparently the funding will come "through a reallocation of existing money in the Community and Recreation Levy as well as a portion of the City’s GST rebate" Fair enough. I spend my GST cheques on booze, but the City's plan is a good one too.
http://blog.calgarymayor.ca/2012/02/media-release-funding-solution-for-4.html
We're going to go ahead with the new (desperately) needed rec centres for the city. Rec centres are my favourite projects to work on (my first project was the SW Edmonton Rec Centre that's my terrible render on the left!) Apparently the funding will come "through a reallocation of existing money in the Community and Recreation Levy as well as a portion of the City’s GST rebate" Fair enough. I spend my GST cheques on booze, but the City's plan is a good one too.
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