DOSE HAS MOVED!
Now found at:
New RSS 2.0 feed: http://hughmcguire.net/feed
Kinda scary moving into a new neighbourhood, but I am sure that I will meet some new friends there. And I hope to keep in touch with some of you too…
J’ai l’intention de participer à ces evenments:
Julien threw down, and then I saw Partrick’s 2006 list. So I’m trying to do 52 books in 2007 too, and review them to boot. My experience in this is that you gotta gun ahead as fast as you can, to give yourself a cushion. Anyway, here is my January 2007 list (with apologies to Mir):
Julien has unleashed a storm of comments about montreal’s web community. Evan, Patrick, Sylvain, and Robin have weighed in, as have I. Julien followed-up.
But in all that, I think Boris (comment on Julien’s site) hit on something important. In my crazy-project-starting-life, I have learned you need 3 things for a web project to work:
a) an idea
b) a designer
c) a back-end coder
a) and b) are well covered in Montreal. c) is the one where we seem to have problems - at least within the community of people I know. You can’t do anything without a good back-end developer/coder willing to hack some stuff together. We could use more of you, if you’re out there, let me know!
So coders: Where are you? Anyone want to do a couple of projects? I have some.
UPDATE: if you’ve got a project on the go, send me an email at hugh AT dosemagazine DOT com or comment here & I’ll add you to the list below.
Julien’s bitchin’ cause Montrealers aren’t talking up their projects, I think, or because we don’t have a more “official” community of geeks. (Not sure what the advantage is to that). I think the main thing is we have no fluoride in our water, so we’re less prone to zombie-like following. There’s tons of cool stuff going on, here is just a list of people I know personally who are doing great things, in no particular order:
UPDATES (I don’t necessarily know these folks):
There are many more, some of whom I know and forgot to mention; others I don’t even know. So, for my money anyway, there’s no lack of activity here, and I seem to run into people doing interesting stuff all the time.
From Maurizio, i got tagged. Shuffled itunes, to see what song plays as the background to various scenes in the movie of my life:
Opening credits
Relaxing with Lee - Charlie Parker
First day of school
I Heard You Looking - Yo La Tengo
Falling in love
Pump It Up - Elvis Costello
Prom/Grad
Next Lifetime - Erykah Badu
Mental breakdown
God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
Flashbacks
Itaparica - Celso Machado
Getting back together
Vampire - Black Uhuru
Wedding scene
Almost Always Nearly Enough - Tortoise
Final battle
Lige Gould’s Double - Rufus Guinchard
Death scene
Deliver Me - Big Sugar
Funeral scene
Sleeping in the Devlis Bed - Daniel Lanois
End credits
High School Hierarchy - Local Rabbits
Finale
Speeding Motocycle - Daniel Johnston & Yo La Tengo
I’ll tag, oh, fling93, kara, julien, podchef, and, ah, bosko.
Oh, and just to piss him off, I will tag the short-tempered, but sensitive boris.
Made some sausage (to dry) with some friends the other day, Italian-style (but very similar to the great Hungarian style sausage from Charcuterie Fairmount).
They are drying in Andrew’s basement, and here is what they look like:
Austin started all of this with gifter.org and the million-dollar-blog-post …
There he launched the idea: 1 comment = $1 to charity (from gifter.org).
I posted here saying you should:
1. comment here and I will pay a dollar to a charity (yet to be decided which, maybe Pops)
and
2. go to gifter and make a comment there.
Now Julien & Steve are doing the same.
So go leave a comment here, here, here, and here and $4 will be committed to charity.
Further: why don’t all of you who read this, who have a blog, do the same again, and we’ll see how much all of us can commit to giving…(and note this should be in addition to whatever you were planning to give this year.
I’m not sure if the math works on this, but there is something in the idea, no?
not on dose, but over at gifter.org … wait. scratch that.
for every comment on *this* post (yes, the one your are now reading) I will donate $1 to charity (maybe I’ll dump it into the gifter.org pot). no need to make a wish, just leave a comment here.
And then go over to gifter, and leave a post on the million dollar blog post … so you’ll double your money. Two little comments = $2 to charity.
If you like the idea, blog about or digg it, delicious it, slashdot it. Spread the word.
What a great service: I got an odd call for “the person responsible for the Collectik website,” but the message was cut off so I didn’t know what it was about. I did, however, know what the phone number was: 877.577.0877 … so I googled that, and this page came up. From the elegant, simple and useful whocalled.us site:
The phone is ringing, and I don’t recognize the number,
All Caller ID says is, “NAME UNAVAILABLE”.
Please help me figure out who is calling and what they want.
Brilliant.
Now I know who called, why they were calling, and that I don’t have to hurry to respond to the call. I also added my 2 cents into the whocalled.us directory.
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