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David Brett is running for New Westminster city cuncil in 2014. I was initially planning on voting for him, but after doing a little more research I won’t be voting for David Brett. See, Mr. Brett is involved in his community, and for someone running for council, that’s a good thing. He’s president of the…

Short answer: When it’s a JavaScript arguments object. Long answer: In a JavaScript package I’m writing, I have a function that returns an object. There’s a bug in it where in certain situations it returns the JavaScript value true. I have a test framework set up with Mocha using the Chai assertion library. With it,…

After a pretty long hiatus, Bad Baby Names are back! To be honest, I got a little bored of all of the bad baby names that the Hawaii Tribune Herald kept serving up. You can only make so many jokes about too many Y’s or girls named Madison before they start getting stale. But this…

Mike Folka is running for New Westminster City Council. He answered my questions. Thank you for answering! I’m sure voters will find your answers… illuminating. I shouldn’t have to say that this is all satire. :–) Supporting and growing local businesses will help keep jobs in New Westminster, grow our tax base, provide opportunity for…

Lorrie Williams is currently a councillor for the City of New Westminster. She is running for re-election in November 2014, and I won’t be voting for her. There’s an intersection in New Westminster that is dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists. Since 2011 there have been various attempts to make the intersection more friendly to pedestrians…

I’ve decided to move my blog away from WordPress and to Octopress. Why? Simple. I don’t blog as much any more, and I don’t have time for blogging much any more. Part of being a responsible website operator is making sure your website hasn’t been hacked to serve out bad things. WordPress, being a dynamically-generated…