Archives for August, 2006

I’ve been meaning to post some code, mostly for my own reference and mostly relating to WordPress, but wanted first to edit my css to make my code look pretty. In particular, I’ve noticed that an increasing number of people are able to give their code line numbers without additional markup. You can see an example at Miha Hribar‘s site. Continue reading this entry »

There was a period a few years ago when I, a fervent teenager, was adamant in my desire to become a journalist. That fervency has gone. With it the ability to put words to horror has also been lost to me. Continue reading this entry »

Last winter, while my mother and I stayed on at Queen’s, completing our respective degrees, my three siblings and father moved back to Toronto, back to the very same neighbourhood we had left three years ago. Abdullah enrolled in the middle school he would have joined had we never left Toronto. He eased back into his old circle of friends, now taller than before, now more hockey-fixated. But he had difficulty coping with the amount of work he was given. The school he had been attending in Kingston is ranked Ontario’s best, but the workload had been light there. Homework was an anomaly. Now, back in Toronto, he would call my mother every night for help with his homework, sometimes close to tears. Continue reading this entry »