Toronto Mike

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If You Can Read This...

Good! It means it worked! This is the new home of Toronto Mike. There's a little cleanup for me yet to do, but the 15,000 entries and 130,000 comments are all present and accounted for. Commenting is now handled by Disqus. If you're familiar with Disqus, then you
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Changes Are Coming....

I suppose the catalyst for the changes coming to this here corner of the web is the fact the connection used to load this site uses TLS 1.1. That's been deprecated, so it's time to update the certificate. But not so fast! This here server is ancient, so it's
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Open Mikes: Friday Only

Open Mikes used to only be posted on Fridays. The idea was to create an open forum for people to discuss whatever they wanted.  I envisioned a hivemind for queries, life hacks and respectful and intelligent discussion. At some point, someone suggested a second Open Mike.  That's when I introduced
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YouTube Cleansing

The first time I embedded a YouTube video on this blog was February 4, 2006 when I shared Brokeback to the Future.  Since then, I've embedded over 1000 YouTube videos, and over the years many of those have been yanked from YouTube for a variety of reasons. Sometimes it's a
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I'm Banning Irvine

I've asked Mark Irvine a.k.a. Irv to stop commenting on this blog.  If he does comment, I'll delete it. I didn't arrive at this conclusion lightly.  Earlier today I received a second threat from him this week. Quite simply, I'm not going to accept that. This blog, which
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State of the Union Address

Some of you have been dropping by for almost nine years.  Some of you just found out this place existed.  I figured it's time for a general state of the union address, a.k.a. an entry to test that everything is functioning properly. At about 5:30 pm yesterday,
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The Devil's Tools

Idle hands are the devil's tools.  Whenever I find myself with a little free time, I get overwhelmed with an urge to blow-up and recreate this site.  Not the content, but the layout and design. I just completely re-wrote the xhtml and css and realized I actually like the current
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Category RSS

I got a request last night to create an RSS feed for my Toronto Blue Jays category.  A Blue Jays fan site wants to syndicate the content, but my regular feed is for every entry I post, regardless of category. I quickly learnt this was pretty easy to do in
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An Update On The Site Renovation

Well, that was frustrating.  Yesterday evening, while I watched the Colts and Patriots play a fairly entertaining football game, I decided to multi-task.  I figured I could blow up and rebuild this site by the final whistle.  This time, I'd go pure CSS. Everything was going swimmingly.  This site is
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Mind the Mess

Yes, I blew up the site and rebuilt it.  In Firefox, things look pretty good, although I have a little fine tuning to do here and there.  In IE, things are quite wonky, as you might have noticed. When I get a few minutes, I'm going to repair the damage
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The Greatest Sacrifice

Some pages on this site must die so others may live.  With less and less time in my day for blogging I thought about retiring Toronto Mike, but then I realized how much  I enjoy this little hobby.  I'd like to continue blogging, thank you very much. As a compromise,
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The Best of Toronto Mike

Nobody asked for it, but I'm giving it to you regardless.  It's The Best of Toronto Mike. I skimmed the last 6328 entries and tagged 79 that either touched a nerve, touched my soul or was simply significant in a sea of insignificance.  You'll find those entries on one page
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Not Built For IE6?

The body of this site is a good old fashioned HTML table.  It's simply two columns, but I've always intended to blow away this table and create the same effect with pure CSS. In my spare time I've been hacking away at this CSS solution, and boy does it look
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A Break From The Ceeb

I love that retro CBC logo with the orange, yellow and red colour scheme.  You may have noticed I played off of it for the header image I threw on this site after FUVC went bust.  After a few weeks of the Ceeb, I felt it was time for something
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