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I made the app that everyone needs right now. Start Spring.

It took me a while to figure out why I'm still uncomfortable with the design of iOS 7. It's not the flat design, I think that is so cool. Yesterday I realized it:

What if her name was longer? Would the name butt up against "< Messages"? I decided to find someone with a longer name:

Dang, still a pretty short name. What about a phone number?

i will dedicate a teeny web app to my 800th follower
— ϟ Gavin Blair (@gavinblair) December 1, 2013

What was I thinking? Such a contest can't possibly get you more followers - the only people that hear about it are the people that are automatically disqualified for already following you! In fact, I lost followers almost instantly.

ok who unfollowed me??
— ϟ Gavin Blair (@gavinblair) December 1, 2013

Open Council is happening! Currently a London implementation of Kevin O'Donnell's OttWatch system is working hard on pulling meetings from London's SIRE system, making it so you can discuss individual council meetings publicly.

A very important part of the original vision for Open Council was the ability to view council votes by councillor. We are almost there! London records their votes in a very different way than Ottawa, however, and we've run into a bit of a snag.

So, I have a programming challenge for you!

Given a council meeting's minutes from London's implementation of SIRE, output the motions made and the voting results in a machine-readable format.

I found out that I had a problem with gluten in February 2012. It wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be to go gluten free. There are only really three recurring issues that I constantly face:

If something is gluten free, it doesn't mean that I will like it - There are a LOT of gluten free products out there. A lot of it tastes like sand.
I miss beer. - I have taken to drinking White Russians. That's a hell of a caucasian, Jackie
If I don't pack a lunch, I'm screwed. - I have about four go-to lunches in downtown London. This list starts to feel pretty short after a while, and it severely limits options when going out with others.

While I can't do much about the first two (besides becoming The Dude), I can at least crowdsource some options for lunch downtown! Check it out, and if you know any gluten free meals downtown, please add to the list.

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	#one, #two {
	width: 50%;
	float: left;
	height: 100vh;
	color: white;
	font-size: 100px;
	}
	</style>
	<div id="one" style="

	#!/bin/bash
	URL=$(git remote -v \| grep origin \| grep fetch \| sed s/origin// \| sed s/\:/\\//g \| sed s/git\@/http\:\\/\\// \| sed s/\(// \| sed s/\)// \| sed s/fetch// \| sed s/\\.git/\\/merge_requests\\/new/ \| sed 's/[ \t]*$//')
	open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app $URL

	jQuery(document).ready(function($){
	$('body').addClass('ads-small');
	});