Tag Archives: toronto

Earth Hour @ the Ontario Science Centre

To anyone who is looking for something to do on Saturday afternoon, it’s Earth Hour (shut off everything electronic for an hour, @ 8:30pm).   The Ontario Science Centre is running a bit of an event. The Google calendar event for the Toronto Activity Club (TACKY) calendar. For anyone who’s interested, I’ll be there at 7:30pm!

March 27, 2009 – 12:54 | By dariusz | Posted in Personal Stuff | Tagged , , | View Comments

Mozilla’s Mike Beltzner on the chaos and rewards of open source

On March 4th TorCHI hosted Mike Beltzner (blog) who is the Director of Development at Mozilla, though he prefers to call himself the “phenomenologist.”  His talk focused on how Mozilla has harnessed the power of the open source community to build Firefox: managing the chaos of open source and have good ideas rise to the …

March 13, 2009 – 12:02 | By dariusz | Posted in Software Development | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Toronto hip-hop: Get ‘em Down South.

This is part two of a series of posts about Toronto hip-hop.  Part one featured Famous and Luu Breeze, two up-and-coming MCs that are making an impact on the mainstream with their lyrical game.  This issue will focus on two others that are harnessing the power of the American hip-hop machine, but repping T.O. just …

March 12, 2009 – 01:25 | By dariusz | Posted in Music | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Toronto hip-hop: whazz happenin’ baybee?

For as long as I’ve been listening to hip hop (arguably, not that long .. Wu-Tang Forever was the first album I cared about, which was in 1997), I’ve been trying to figure out why Toronto specifically, and Canada to a lesser extent, doesn’t put out mind-blowingly good hip-hop non-stop.  Why is there no buzz …

March 10, 2009 – 12:47 | By dariusz | Posted in Music | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Moving to Bloor and Lansdowne

To be honest, moving to Toronto has been a consistent, giant headache. The housing situation, at least in the summer of 2008, is such that every attractive three bedroom Craigslist ad yields twelve or thirteen couples showing up for viewings.  That kind of competition makes you feel like there’s not a lot of hope of …

August 22, 2008 – 23:45 | By dariusz | Posted in Personal Stuff | Tagged | View Comments