Category Archives: About

Somehow, a rogue character that gave RSS readers trouble crept into the article on March 25 about the Metrolinx Investment Strategy.  This caused the “Entries RSS” feed to fail. The problem has been fixed.

Today, January 30, 2013, is the seventh birthday of this site.  As I write this, we are in striking distance of 1,400 published articles and 28,000 comments.  You readers are a prolific lot, and I thank you for helping to … Continue reading →

January 30, 2012 marks the sixth anniversary of this blog.  A year ago, I was despondent after the municipal election left a band in control of City Hall whose politics, to put it mildly, do not align with my own. … Continue reading →

People attempting to leave comments lately will almost certainly have had them rejected as spam.  This was caused by an update to the spam filter which caused it to eat everything. I have backed out the code to the previous … Continue reading →

January 31, 2006, a new blog crawled out into the world with the prosaic name Steve Munro’s Web Site, now simply Steve Munro. Over those five years, we have wrestled with budgets, debated the merits of LRT vs Subways (not … Continue reading →

Updated January 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm: By a landslide vote of 21 to 8, non-threaded comments wins.  I have a clear mandate to change things back to the era before those latte-sipping threaded comment advocates took control of this … Continue reading →

A link has been added to the comments area allowing readers to pick up the feed for comments on a specific article. This option had been lost in a previous upgrade, and finally I got around to putting it back.

In response to a query from a reader, I have changed the default mobile theme for non-Apple devices from the “green” version to the “blue” version to improve legibility.  Please let me know what you think of this.

For all of my regular readers who probably wonder why the flow of posts has dribbled to a trickle … A combination of factors including a comparative dearth of news, the heat, a few short vacations and family issues have … Continue reading →

The WordPress Mobile Pack and WPtouch theme have been added to this site. To users of Mobile devices:  Please let me know if you encounter problems with this support by leaving a comment here.