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2007

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Prepaid iPhone in a Nutshell - The Unofficial...
Jul 1st
“Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.”
— Helen Hayes (Gmail Funny Quote...
Jul 1st
Gabriel Mansour: Happy 140th Birthday Canada! (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jul 1st
Gabriel Mansour: writing backwards because Photo Booth takes pictures in reverse (via Twitter /...
Jun 30th
Watch Watch
I know it’s cruel to torment kittens in this manner (especially after all the amusement...
Jun 30th
Gabriel Mansour: why does the Twitter Facebook app use GET instead of POST for updating statuses? I...
Jun 29th
Gabriel Mansour: Re-acquainting myself with high-school–level science: Bohr–Rutherford diagrams and...
Jun 29th
30 Free eBooks To Learn Everything You Want...
Jun 29th
Gabriel Mansour: drawing pixel-by-pixel reminds me of building with Lego bricks (via Twitter /...
Jun 29th
Gabriel Mansour: iterating (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 29th
Sacha’s Power Move. Just don’t try to blast me...
Jun 28th
Gabriel Mansour: thinking that Coverflow might be “useful” for thumbing through websites...
Jun 28th
Watch Watch
David Pogue’s video review of the iPhone (via Laughing Squid)
Jun 28th
via sachachua.com
Jun 28th
the bottom of the candles from a few posts ago.. they all...
Jun 28th
Wii-mote Guts
Jun 28th
Should Designers and Developers Do Usability?...
Jun 28th
FreshBooks - API Reference
Jun 28th
Gabriel Mansour: deleting 20GB of files in my Trash (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 28th
Your Health: New Cancer Worries For Diet Soda...
Jun 27th
Gabriel Mansour: how come the Ball of Death game on http://www.simpsonsmovie.com isn’t loading...
Jun 27th
Gabriel Mansour: I clicked on a link to http://www/simpsonsmovie.com. there goes the rest of my day....
Jun 27th
“I think a website should be more like a city.”
— The New Internet Design...
Jun 27th
“The is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men –...”
— Ernest Hemingway, via...
Jun 27th
Gabriel Mansour: i need to develop my pixel art skills. Pixel is cool for this:...
Jun 27th
Gabriel Mansour: Just saw subway ad for www.mynewstreetcar.ca — give the TTC your input (in...
Jun 27th
Gabriel Mansour: I think i might have sprained my elbow just now. (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 27th
macosxhints.com - 10.4: Use the Oxford...
Jun 27th
Gabriel Mansour: I’ve got the songs from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory stuck in my...
Jun 27th
Can an iPhone help you get laid? Maybe. If anything,...
Jun 26th
Gabriel Mansour: Everybody—Samba! http://www.sambaelegua.com/ Free show + more on July 7 at...
Jun 26th
Gabriel Mansour: thinking I’ve had one too many hard candies today (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 26th
Oxford Geek Nights | 11th April 2007
Jun 26th
instructables : LED Throwies
Jun 26th
HTML 5 differences from HTML 4
Jun 26th
Gabriel Mansour: reading http://tinyurl.com/ywmqna – some yays, some nays, so far. (via Twitter /...
Jun 26th
Gabriel Mansour: thinking about buying a Wii controller, for hacking purposes (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 25th
Gabriel Mansour: @joeclark thanks for the tip. I’m making a Google map to plot out possible...
Jun 25th
Translated version of "Formenwandlungen...
Jun 25th
Adobe Fonts - Type topics: The ampersand
Jun 25th
Gabriel Mansour: trying to find a bowling alley in (or at least near) downtown toronto (via Twitter...
Jun 25th
Gabriel Mansour: picking ampersands (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 25th
Gabriel Mansour: debating as to whether I should go to http://tinyurl.com/2dusna tonight. Gadget...
Jun 25th
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Jun 25th
David Crow: Great (web) designers write code
Jun 25th
Gabriel Mansour: @RobinYap: Flickr Backup –http://sunkencity.org/flickrbackup/ (via Twitter /...
Jun 24th
Gabriel Mansour: watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on CBC (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 24th
LOL: Twitter / Gabriel Mansour
Jun 24th
19 Rails Tricks Most Rails Coders Don't Know
Jun 24th
Gabriel Mansour: i can has twitter lolcats? http://lol.ianloic.com/twitter/gabrielmansour (via...
Jun 24th
Gabriel Mansour: going through my 41 email drafts and deleting the ones I don’t need anymore...
Jun 24th
Gabriel Mansour: electronic art is my new favourite thing (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 24th
Gabriel Mansour: OpenCities was awesome! Thanks a bunch to everyone for a great unconfrence! (via...
Jun 23rd
Gabriel Mansour: Smiling at the fact that @brycej has a dotBoom sticker on his laptop (via Twitter /...
Jun 23rd
Gabriel Mansour: Listening to stories about Graffiti Research Lab from Kevin Bracken. Just amazing....
Jun 23rd
Gabriel Mansour: I may be running a bit late for OpenCities, but it was worth it - i just had an...
Jun 23rd
Web avant-garde » Blog Archive » the complete...
Jun 23rd
Marketcircle: iPhoney
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: party-planning (for my birthday! yippee!) (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: really feeling excited about OpenCities tomorrow (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: just realized that a Graffiti Research Lab–type project I was thinking of doing...
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: anyone have any ideas for possible Facebook apps they’d want to see? (via...
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: Tempted to just go nuts in the subway station. I want to have a subway party this...
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: Just noticed i’m on bus #6699. Good number. (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: Can’t wait for this bus to come so that i can tile a nap — i...
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: it’s 8:20: the world is awake but my eyes are falling asleep (via Twitter /...
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix premiere (UK) is on my birthday! Now...
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: going through a Powerpoint from 2001 (http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/km/kmrs/) and...
Jun 22nd
“Do not be afraid of hearing the word “No”....”
— Green Party of Canada’s...
Jun 22nd
Watch Watch
Here’s the trailer for the up-and-coming Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix, playing in...
Jun 22nd
MySQL to XML Export with PHP
Jun 22nd
Gabriel Mansour: ok, 2849 iTunes tracks have been remapped to point to the files on my external hd....
Jun 21st
Watch Watch
Microsoft Surface Parody: Instead of using one of today’s more popular compact devices to get...
Jun 21st
Gabriel Mansour: why is iTunes still loading songs from ~/Music/iTunes when I pointed my new library...
Jun 21st
Gabriel Mansour: Gah! just looked at the src for a new client’s site: <font> tags;...
Jun 21st
Gabriel Mansour: smiling at the fact that I’ve now got 4 IconBuffet badges (versus just the...
Jun 21st
“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately I...”
— Henry David Thoreau, as quoted...
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: @dotboom Omniplan: http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniplan/ (via Twitter /...
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: Trying to find a birthday-themed icon/iconset on the ‘Buffet...
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: downloading & installing 10.4.10 (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: Wilson Stn is by far the most confusing subway station i’ve been in: it has...
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: Heading back home T-10mins ago (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: I hear en had cream truck! That brings back childhood memories :) (via Twitter /...
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: Numbering the odd pages in my new moleskine (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: Well it seems that i underestimated the travel time it takes un get here —...
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: En route to the west end of town (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 20th
Why you shouldn’t buy gadgets from China (via Digg)
Jun 20th
Hack Your Work: 23 Ways to Get Ahead, Work...
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: strange: the Automator script moved the containing folder to my external hard drive...
Jun 20th
Gabriel Mansour: That’s odd: My Downloads folder just vanished right before my eyes (while I...
Jun 20th
Buffalo Tofu: A spicy, saucy indulgence
Jun 19th
Watch Watch
This has become one of my favourite typography videos out there. You have to see this. (Here’s...
Jun 19th
Gabriel Mansour: I wouldn’t mind if it started raining right about now. (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 19th
Common Transit Data Model
Jun 19th
Gabriel Mansour: paying more attention to colour in photographs & video. noticing hints of green...
Jun 19th
Gabriel Mansour: working (or browsing, rather) in fullscreen mode really makes me feel more on-task...
Jun 19th
Apple to Developers: Write Web Apps. -- Is It...
Jun 19th
Gabriel Mansour: cleaning my desk by taking things from one side and tossing them out of the way....
Jun 19th
NOW Magazine Toronto Restaurant Guide for...
Jun 18th
Placement is Everything — not an image I’d like to...
Jun 18th
Gabriel Mansour: wondering if I should buy a new MacBook now (July/August) or wait till October for...
Jun 17th
Gabriel Mansour: Mailplane is nice, but I miss Gmail extensions like GTDInbox and Better Gmail (via...
Jun 16th
Gabriel Mansour: sweet! I fixed *ALL* my Arial problems (http://tinyurl.com/3aav6m)! an operating...
Jun 15th
Gabriel Mansour: factoid of the day: “Muppet” is a portmanteau of...
Jun 15th
Gabriel Mansour: @dotboom: via sms (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 15th
Gabriel Mansour: Impatiently waiting for the power to be restored. Man, this sucks. (via Twitter /...
Jun 15th
Gabriel Mansour: No! The electricity went out just as I was wrapping up my work. What am I supposed...
Jun 15th
Gabriel Mansour: sweet! I just got my Upcoming t-shirt in the mail! …it’s a darker shade...
Jun 15th
Gabriel Mansour: Thanks a bunch to the Freshbookers for an awesome party! (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 15th
Gabriel Mansour: Headed to the FreshBooks party after an amazing Dave-Gray-infused VizThink. Thanks...
Jun 14th
Gabriel Mansour: “Trees have to die in order for us to be creative.” -Dave Gray (via...
Jun 14th
Gabriel Mansour: Idea funnelling with Dave Gray at VizThink (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 14th
Gabriel Mansour: Listening to a busking bagpiper at the corner of Bay and Bloor (via Twitter /...
Jun 14th
Gabriel Mansour: my city-scampering begins now. (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 14th
Gabriel Mansour: @stoweboyd when are you coming up to Toronto? (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 14th
Gabriel Mansour: trying to sort out my schedule to accommodate both VizThink & Freshbooks Office...
Jun 14th
Gabriel Mansour: I broke my Arial—again. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielm3/548198557/ (via...
Jun 14th
“Syllogomania: a term which is used to describe extreme...”
— Compulsive hoarding -...
Jun 13th
Set default applications in Mac OS X
Jun 13th
Gabriel Mansour: readjusting to the fact that there are icons on my desktop again (thanks to...
Jun 13th
via Facebook › Photos from “Free Flow of...
Jun 13th
Gabriel Mansour: having fun with the :target pseudo-class (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 13th
Gabriel Mansour: playing with server stuff. isn’t htaccess-ing fun? (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 13th
Gabriel Mansour: Wants to be able to access my computer whilst laying in bed. I feel so tired. (via...
Jun 13th
Gabriel Mansour: @betsyweber looking forward to seeing you again! :) (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 12th
WWDC 2007 Keynote video
Jun 12th
Watch Watch
Mac or PC Rap Music Video — love the use of the dial-up modem during the bridge; bring back...
Jun 12th
Gabriel Mansour: not having Twitterrific open all the time has certainly made it easier to focus on...
Jun 12th
Gabriel Mansour: It was great sitting in on the virtual keynote (thx again, MacRumors!). Now time to...
Jun 11th
MacRumors: WWDC 2007 Keynote Live Coverage
Jun 11th
Gabriel Mansour: Safari for Windows! (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 11th
Gabriel Mansour: not sure I’d be entirely comfortable using a Finder window that has an iTunes...
Jun 11th
Gabriel Mansour: following WWDC keynote at http://www.macrumorslive.com/ (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 11th
Gabriel Mansour: Wishing this subway train would go faster. I need to catch at least _part_ of Don...
Jun 11th
Gabriel Mansour: my online life has become a mess. need to unplug for a bit to get things back in...
Jun 10th
“If it was already too stoopid for you here’s a section...”
— (via Boycott “Web...
Jun 10th
Watch Watch
Deepak Chopra on the Mirror of Relationships — apologies for the ad that plays beforehand. Just skip...
Jun 9th
Gabriel Mansour: having svn issues. causing frustration (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 8th
Gabriel Mansour: registered for OpenCities: http://opencities.ca/ (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 8th
Gabriel Mansour: @dotboom it’s back online now—hooray! (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 8th
Gabriel Mansour: upset that http://userstyles.org/ is down right now. (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 8th
Gabriel Mansour: I haven’t noticed this before, but my prof’s voice sounds a bit like...
Jun 8th
Gabriel Mansour: They’re installing a bench in my local bus shelter. Finally! (via Twitter /...
Jun 8th
In Transit by Ed Drass
Jun 8th
Gabriel Mansour: I hate the artifacting Facebook does to my images. It looks terrible now. blegh...
Jun 8th
Gabriel Mansour: I want Don Norman’s book, & it hasn’t even come out yet....
Jun 8th
sweets from the earth - a vegan bakery
Jun 8th
Gabriel Mansour: my birthday’s less than a month away and I haven’t made any plans...
Jun 7th
Gabriel Mansour: iCal keeps freezing on me when I try to launch it. Grr… (via Twitter /...
Jun 7th
Global Nerdy » Take the Rails Pledge!
Jun 7th
Gabriel Mansour: must remember Ockham’s Razor more often when I’m stuck on a problem; it...
Jun 7th
Gabriel Mansour: @jzhang99 aww… I feel your pain. I still need a camera but now there’s...
Jun 7th
Gabriel Mansour: Jane Zhang needs more twitter friends. Help her out: http://twitter.com/jzhang99...
Jun 6th
Give an old Mac new life by turning it into an iWipe (via...
Jun 6th
Gabriel Mansour: is looking to buy a new digital camera (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 6th
Magic Pit — nice! Ah, the Fibonacci spiral. It’s been...
Jun 6th
Gabriel Mansour: As much as I love PHP, Ruby & Rails are just so much awesomer. (via Twitter /...
Jun 6th
Gabriel Mansour: I am incredibly tired. Can’t wait to get to bed. When is this bus coming?...
Jun 6th
Gabriel Mansour: all my online social network friends are all out of sync—I’ll need to do some...
Jun 5th
Gabriel Mansour: jealous of @dotboom for having more tweets than I do but having been registered for...
Jun 5th
Gabriel Mansour: Sacha’s coming back to Toronto at 5:50pm EDT tonight!...
Jun 5th
Gabriel Mansour: There was a mix-up at the library, but things all worked out in the end and i...
Jun 5th
Gabriel Mansour: Having a late lunch at Fresh on Bloor (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 5th
Gabriel Mansour: it’s only appropriate I’m in love with Ruby – it is my birthstone,...
Jun 5th
Gabriel Mansour: crap—I lost all the stuff I had written. why can’t websites (or browsers)...
Jun 5th
Watch Watch
Family Guy - Peter and Quagmire text message each other more technology in pop culture. funny.
Jun 4th
Gabriel Mansour: this peanut half is shaped like a nose. I’m tempted to eat it instead of...
Jun 4th
Gabriel Mansour: is astounded at what’s become of his old high school friend. haven’t...
Jun 4th
Watch Watch
Toronto Tech Week – This is my City (via Radiant Core: Blog)
Jun 4th
Gabriel Mansour: being a web junkie isn’t always easy—sometimes you’ve got to get away...
Jun 4th
Gabriel Mansour: looking for a deeper meaning in life (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 4th
Gabriel Mansour: At the TRL, and pissed that the item I need to check out ASAP is available at 2...
Jun 4th
IMG_2255.JPG on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Jun 3rd
Gabriel Mansour: I want commenting capabilities on my tumblelog. (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 3rd
BarCampTab Thanks a lot to Bryce, Kaleem, Audrey, and...
Jun 3rd
Gabriel Mansour: follow-up to last night (http://tinyurl.com/ytybj5): His name is Simon and...
Jun 3rd
Watch Watch
glumbert.com - Truth Happens (via Krispy←TorCamp)
Jun 3rd
Gabriel Mansour: turning in early to catch up on some Zzzs (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: And thus ends the first (annual?) Toronto Tech Week. (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: Had an excellent time at Interactioncamp—big thanks to the organizers for...
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: Shoot—i forgot my whiteboard sheets at the bar. Grr… (via Twitter /...
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: The kid who hosts YTV’s Zappix(sp.?) (i forget his name) is on the same...
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: Needs A/C (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: It’s incredibly hot in here (more humid, attually) (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: Just spent a 1/2 hour unsuccessfully trying to find the set of bus tickets i bought...
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: should really practice saying more with less. Twitter helps with this. (via...
Jun 2nd
Gabriel Mansour: Happy 500th Tweet-iversary to me! (actually this is #501 (but it’s actually...
Jun 1st
Gabriel Mansour: CSI party rawked! Big thanks to @jzhang99 for inviting of out! (via Twitter /...
Jun 1st
Gabriel Mansour: This light rain helps to cool down the heat (via Twitter / Gabriel Mansour)
Jun 1st
Gabriel Mansour: Had some cable ties stuck around my wrists. Finally got’em off. Now heading...
Jun 1st
Gabriel Mansour: is trying to figure out how to edit posts in Facebook. :S (via Twitter / Gabriel...
Jun 1st
Gabriel Mansour: Feeling much better today (missed mesh day 2 yesterday :( ). Anyone up for a...
Jun 1st