There was an accident Thursday in the intersection of King Street East and Main Street East in Hamilton’s East End which prompted an interesting discussion on Twitter. Is the intersection, known as The Delta, ‘King at Main’ or ‘King and Main’? [View Larger Map](http://maps.google.com/maps?…
This is my website and I’ll write what I want, how I want. I started this website as a hobby back in 2004 and today it’s both my hobby and passion. It’s been a little neglected over the past few years as I’ve pursued my career.…
Dear Readers, For the next week or two, I’m going to decrease the amount of breaking news, tweeting, and open data projects I’m working on as I focus my energies onto a job application process. If I make it to the second round – the written test – I plan…
Apologies for only posting the agenda without analysis, I’m swamped with other matters this week Hamilton’s Accountability and Transparency Sub-Committee meets today at City Hall. Ironically, agendas for the transparency sub-committee are not available on the city website. Here’s an electronic copy of the agenda [http://blog.…
Hamilton’s top paramedic is calling on citizens to be careful shovelling snow this winter following a snow shovelling related death Saturday. “Regrettably, a person in our community died today shovelling snow,” wrote Paramedic Chief Brent Browett in a news release emailed to local media early Saturday afternoon. “We strongly…
This excites me – Twitter is lifting the cap [https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/5129] on retweet_count in their API. Presently, once a tweet reaches 101 retweets, the API returns “100+”. This is a problem for programmers as “100+” is a string, not an integer. I found the cap an…
This excites me – Twitter is lifting the cap [https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/5129] on retweet_count in their API. Presently, once a tweet reaches 101 retweets, the API returns “100+”. This is a problem for programmers as “100+” is a string, not an integer. I found the cap an…
There’s no 7-11 at Upper Sherman and Concession – this is just one of many surprises as I hopped off the Upper Gage bus a few days ago at the intersection. It’s been close to a decade, or maybe longer, since I stood at the intersection. The Tim Horton’…