Kevin Montgomery

  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-23

    • @michaelbanovsky Hwo many? What colour? #
    • @michaelbanovsky Are they at least treating you to their safest elevator music? #
    • @michaelbanovsky Boo-urns! #
    • @michaelbanovsky The countdown is on now for Bell and Telus to update their networks for GSM! #
    • @michaelbanovsky I think Wi-Fi might be the answer to that one. VoIP baby! #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-22

    • @MissMotorMouth My goodness, what happened?? #
    • @MissMotorMouth Yikes! Well I hope it heals quickly. #
    • is writing a really long blog post… Holy cow! Lots of pent up ranting. #
    • @kemosite Ooo, cool. Twitter Tools worked! hehe. #
    • didn’t get any updates done to his portfolio site. Stupid ranting. Oh well, time for bed! #
    • is humming to himself “Whenever I’m bored I travel abroad but ever so properly
      Port out, starboard home, posh with a capital P-O-S-H, po … #
    • is the hip-hoppopotamus, his lyrics are bottomless… #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-21

    • can’t believe he has to wait another 2 weeks for Terminator! #
    • is feeling ambitious. I want to teach myself Java! #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-20

    • @michaelbanovsky I think I’ve seen a few Scion’s on the road in the GTA. A friend of mine bought an import recently that looks like it. #
    • @CarlaYoung Ha! We’ve been “taxing” our kids juices from the time they’re old enough to hold their own cups! 😀 #
    • @CarlaYoung My in-laws taught their daughters about that in the 80’s. 😉 #
    • @anthonywoods The hand drawn icons are awesome. #
    • is booting up on this dark Monday morning. #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-19

    • @CarlaYoung Your 3YO is a genious! #
    • @CarlaYoung I know. Our 4YO is showing the 2YO her best moves. They’re tag-teaming now. #
    • @CarlaYoung That is the million dollar question! #
    • is filling out many, many forms relating to our 10 day old. #
    • is going to bed. That’s enough excitement for one day! #
    • is getting ready to go to church, with our latest addition! #
    • is back home from church. #
    • feels a little jumpy after having two of these full of coffee… http://twitpic.com/h62z #
    • @CarlaYoung the “Gilbert Gottfried” bubble counter? #
    • @CarlaYoung I’m not sure it exists, I was thinking of a pet name for the voice of the toy… #
    • @CarlaYoung Obnoxious sounding voice, and chomping, reminds me of Iago the parrot from Aladdin. #
    • @michaelbanovsky What, this Scion? http://www.scion.com #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2008-10-18

    • is finding Crusoe strangely entertaining. #
    • is putting off cleaning today. #
    • can imagine himself eventually digging this whole “blogging” thing. #
    • : The kids room is no longer a warzone. Now it looks like it’s in recovery. #
    • Is at the park with sebastian. #

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  • Election Aftermath

    That’s awesome.

    It’s the first day after the October 2008 Federal election.

    A law that dictates election cycles was bypassed, loads of taxpayer dollars spent on campaigns and advertising, much mud flung, for a net of result of… another minority conservative government.

    It would seem that while some countries have a problem with their spending in military, others in social programs, our problem with spending seems to sit with elections. Hoorah.

  • Always, ALWAYS, Make Backups

    So. Here I am, tackling problem after problem with moving my test WordPress sites into a live environment. Very exciting!

    Suddenly, I hit a wall. My portfolio site has lost a ton of it’s metadata, with no clue as to where it went. Many post titles and linkages to gallery images simply reverted to NULL.

    What to do? Track down a backup? Not in this case… I never made a reliable one with the most up-to-date data. Hence the lesson of this entry.

    Always, ALWAYS, make backups of your data. No matter how seemingly insignificant. DO IT.

    While I have a structuraly sound backup, hours of work is lost.

    BOO!

  • Careerpathing

    In regards to careerpathing: I believe that within each one of us lies a desire to do something, that we honestly believe would make ourselves, and everyone around us, a little happier.

    I learned this formula from Christian teaching, but I believe it can also be applied as design principles in the form of: Problem, Resolution, Solution.

    DESIRE (Problem)
    Our desires are our driving force. They reveal the things that matter to us, and the things we want to do.

    DESIGN (Resolution)
    Our desires reveals our individuality; Our design. Our individual “designs” reveal our strengths, which can then be made stronger with practice, teaching, etc.

    DESTINY (Solution)
    Our design determines our destiny, the path that will bring us closer to where we want to be.

    I’m not a professional career adviser, but I’ve found that this method has helped me immensely over the past few years. The beauty is that it can be applied to pretty much any situation you aren’t satisfied with.

  • Trademark and Copyright Symbols

    Some pointers on using trademark and copyright symbols such as ®, ™, and © effectively:

    • It’s okay to use a sans serif symbol with serif text.
    • When using a ® or a â„¢ after a word in text, the symbol should look a little smaller than half the x-height of your text. As the text gets larger, the symbols should appear proportionately smaller.
    • When the copyright symbol appears before text, its target size should be the same x-height as the next character that follows it.
    • When the copyright symbol appears before a year, its target size should be the height of the smallest number in the group number set.