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Sometime after 8:31pm PST on 7 February, tweets from my Twitter account stopped automatically posting to Facebook. Nothing seemed to have changed, so trying to fix the problem was troublesome. I finally figured it out, so here are step-by-step instructions on getting your tweets back onto Facebook: Go to the Twitter app page on Facebook….

In the 2014 December 13 Vancouver Sun, columnist Pete McMartin wrote this correction: My apologies to Mayor Greg Moore for incorrectly identifying him in Friday’s column as mayor of Coquitlam. He is not. He is mayor of Port Coquitlam, which I am assured are two completely different communities. Mayor Moore informed me by email, however,…

Jonathan X. Cote is running for Mayor of New Westminster, and he answered my questions. Thank you for answering! Obviously this is all satire, except for The Truth About The Machine! Question: Supporting and growing local businesses will help keep jobs in New Westminster, grow our tax base, provide opportunity for New Westminster citizens to…

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…

Letter to Council, May 10, 2007: …the proposed bylaw change will enable the developer to go as high as 30 storeys in sub-district 4, 18 storeys in sub-district 3… Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 7145, 2007, Section 581.3, adopted July 14, 2008: The maximum height and site coverage of all buildings and structures in each sub-district…

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…