Archives tagged: rant

The joys of car shopping

You’d think that spending a few grand would be easy. Not so when car shopping. With fairly flexible expectations, a list of desired characteristics, and a large wad of cash, we set out early with thermoses of coffee, timbits (you have to be Canadian to understand…) and maps to our destinations.
Stop 1: A smoking, hoodied [...]

Large fonts are OK

Or so I keep telling myself. I have always been a fan of small fonts. Maybe it was just the old school web designer in me, or maybe it was because for years I have tried to cram as much real estate onto my desktop as possible. I remember looking (and sometimes [...]

Idiot’s Guide to Dummies

I recently made a pit stop into our rather large Canadian bookstore and was discouraged to find that books for “Dummies” and “Idiot Guides” and have spread over the bookshelves like our resident pine beetle attacking our pine forests. The infestation was more than I could have imagined however as almost every [...]