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London Sign Generator
A local London business has caused some controversy recently with his signage. The owner of Ale House London is using his sign to voice his concern over the rising costs of business in London, Ontario. Among these concerns is the large jump in minimum wage to $15/hour, a long-standing ambition of the NDP that was…
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London’s Open Map Data
London’s open data catalogue is a good starting point if you’re looking for map data, budgets, water sampling. Working with map data can be tricky at first. I show how to import London’s map data into both GoogleMaps and QGIS. London’s Open Data Catalogue The City of London’s Open Data Catalogue is provided so that citizens can understand…
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Custom Drupal 7 to WordPress Migration
This website has been migrated from Drupal 7 to WordPress using a custom process. I created a quick-and-dirty WordPress plugin to query specific Drupal 7 nodes and add them as WordPress posts. In most cases, I would recommend building or using two plugins: one for Drupal 7 that queries and exports data using the Drupal’s API,…
Posted in Programming
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London’s New Urban Luddites
While London struggles with a housing and rental crisis, opposition to neighbourhood intensification grows. A look at Richard Florida’s latest research as it applies to London’s intensification strategy. London’s Old Crisis A decade ago, London faced a problem that was extremely common at the time. Growth around the edges of the city pulled people, businesses and…
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Cyberabdication
The worldwide WannaCry ransomware attack has corporations and governments pointing fingers. Microsoft stopped free support of popular and widely used operating systems. America has allowed a powerful cyberweapon to fall into the hands of gangs and terrorists. Thousands of IT professionals shirked their responsibility to apply necessary security patches. Many of the organizations affected have…
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Real News and Fake Problems
Devising An Informed Alternative To Authoritarian Censorship
Posted in Politics
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Back For The Tannens
How Marty McFly robs the Tannens of their destiny throughout time
Posted in Pop Culture
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Beyond Ridiculous
Furious Directing The director of a film has a huge impact on how the story is told. Justin Lin is an excellent example of this. He brings his perspective from the highly varied films Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 6, Fast Five, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. This Star Trek films contains no…
Posted in Star TrekTagged Star Trek Beyond
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The Music Of Star Trek
Classical Music In Space Since Star Trek: The Motion Picture, classical music has been at the core of Star Trek. Jerry Goldsmith created the epic music that defined most of Star Trek for decades, along with music for other movies I watch frequently like Total Recall, Alien and The Burbs. Dennis McCarthy, Ron Jones, Cliff Eidelman and others have contributed and…
Posted in Star Trek