The sign on the door says it all:

After many months of preparation, Interlude re-opened in its new home at 233 University Avenue today. The place looks great inside:

They’re open Monday to Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and now on Saturdays too, from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Gong Bao Thursday lives again!

Remember our traffic bird from a month ago? Well, it was still there this morning, despite tropical storms and a time change:

The friendly presence of this bird in our daily life is enough to make a phenologist out of me.

My Flickr photos in 3D. Oddly alluring. Pointer from Jonas.

StormAdvisory Hurricane Map. Very nicely done.

The Metro Credit Union website is down, meaning that web-based banking is down too. They’re “aware of the problem” and it’s being “worked on.” This is the first time I can ever remember the site going offline; its absence reminds me how it’s increasingly my primary interface to my money.

The latest Hurricane Information Statement about Tropical Storm Noel says, in part:

We have nudged our forecast track west of the previous track and the latest cmc and gfs guidance suggests that it may not be far enough To the west. Because we are dealing with a large sprawling storm system by the time it reaches us we are cautious to make significant changes to the track in that the impacted areas will still be mostly The same… It is only the details that remain to be ironed out.

While it is refreshing to see such non-technical writing from an Official Government Source, the casual language hides the reality of the “nudge.” This morning’s storm path, grabbed and posted by Dan, shows Noel floating comfortably (for me) far away over Cape Breton:

Post “nudge,” the track appears to place the eye of the hurricane-in-wait directly over where I am sitting right now:

Of course my lack of hurricane knowledge means that I may be mis-interpreting the relative merits of being in the path vs. being aside the path.

Nokia has released an updated version of Nokia Multimedia Transfer for the Mac that’s Leopard-compatible. I hadn’t realized how much I’d come to depend on this app for easy transfer of files to and from my Nokia N70, so this makes me happy.

We’re in the middle of that week in November when our friends in Berlin have switched off Daylight Time (October 28) and before we switch off Daylight Time ourselves here in Atlantic Canada (November 4). Which is causing scheduling discord to break out all over the place. You’d think that there would be some body at the United Nations that could work this all out so that we jump at the same time.

I have suddenly turned positive on David Duchovny. Californication started it all and Trust the Man sealed the deal. Go figure.

Today’s favourite Mac OS X Leopard feature: “web clip.” Lets me take any chunk of any web page and turn it into a dashboard widget. In about 4 seconds. It’s very easy to use, and while it bears something in common with the old “Active Desktop” system from the Windows world, its elegance transports it high above the Microsoft implementation.

Click on the image to see it in Flickr and mouse-over the image there for more details about each widget.