Some photos, many of which were taken at the “Ukranian Day in the Park” festival in Saskatoon this weekend.

I can’t speak for everyone, but where I am (Regina, Saskatchewan) as of now we’re a full month into the iPhone 4 launch in Canada and I still cannot buy one.
It’s hard to believe. Apple had a month since the US launch to prepare. Locations in our city received only …

When you run the ASP.NET development server out of Visual Studio, you may be prompted by Firefox or IE for a username and password before you can continue.
The following solutions worked for me using Windows 7, Visual Studio 2008 & 2010 with Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8.

Here’s a great presentation on social networking given by Paul Adams, a senior user experience researcher at Google. Well worth the time if you’re interested. For me, it cemented an obvious need for facebook (or anyone else for that matter) to do some evolving in online social architecture.

Some photos taken by Darin Shaw the week of June 28th, 2010.

An interesting watch for me. Say what you will about Steven Seagal present day but the dude still has a wealth of knowledge and experience in martial arts. Even Anderson Silva seems surprised/impressed at times.
It’ll be interesting to see if he employs any of these kinds of techniques in his …

A while back I wanted to find myself an iPhone app where I could reasonably quickly figure out what my depth of field was going to be in a certain situation.
I looked at a few and finally decided on an app called f/8. It’s exactly what I was looking for. …

If you were wondering what the booth babes were like at the 2010 UFC fan expo, this should give you an idea…

Just installed a new plugin for my blog called WPtouch. It detects mobile devices and displays a mobile device friendly version of my blog if you’re on one.
It installed in a snap and I just loaded it up the blog from my iPhone and it seems to be working great …

Here is a smattering of the personalities I came across at the 2010 UFC fan expo in Las Vegas.
I’ll probably miss a few but it’ll give you an idea of what to expect.
Vitor Belfort
Ken Shamrock
Brandon Vera
Frank Mir
Anthony Johnson
Nate Quarry
Urijah Faber
Tito Ortiz
Dan Hardy
Stephan Bonnar
Forrest Griffin
Cain Velasquez
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Rashad Evans
Mo …