It was late. I was tired. And I’d been hacked.
Well, it wasn’t exactly a “hacking” per se, in the strict sense of the word. I’d left a wee little hole open in one hidden away insignificant, worthless little project I’d spent no more than a few hours of effort on, a hole [...]

Matt, Chris and I spent a mis-adventurous couple of hours downtown this afternoon toting the cameras around and trying to take some photos. I’ll spare the details about the dead battery and the wicked rainstorm as this is simply a post to draw your attention to THIS LINK which, when zoomed to the appropriate [...]

It’s been about a month and a half since the Sony E-book Reader found its way into my stack of books, and while it has not been the exclusive purveyor of reading material in my life (note as a couple of examples the “Steampunk Anthology” and “Insect Field Guide“) it has been first fiddle, so [...]

If you’ve ever seen the Robin Williams movie “Bicentennial Man”, you may recall the opening scene: a quiet suburban neighborhood is the setting as a delivery van pulls up to the door. A box is signed for, dragged into the house, and carefully pried open revealing a gleaming robot which promptly goes into demo [...]

The new toy arrived via secret import channels yesterday, and I spent a couple hours last night adding files, poking buttons, and generally enjoying my super-slick ebook reader. A fairly basic little machine, there is nothing particularly special about the behind-the-scenes technology that powers the device. Sure, it doesn’t have a wi-fi connection, touch-screen, faster [...]

…I was leafing through the fliers that arrived on our doorstep last night and, well, with certain things being on sale in ways that are no less than rare and substantial, it would have been difficult to justify waiting for anything but a less painful moment which may never come. Moments of wanton purchase and [...]

One week into 2008 and this is only my second post. Were you one of those who was checking every day to see if I’d resumed the daily posts? Do you miss me yet?
Alas, all is not lost. I’ve been writing — as always — just not here, very much. In fact [...]

It’s been a month worth of upgrading. Upgrades are cool. Usually, it just means taking something you already have and improving, replacing, or appending it to make it better. My highlights of this pleasant process include:

:: I put my snow tires on the car yesterday and just this morning had the two-year old beast [...]

I’ve been active in this little negotiation game for the last week or so. No, there’s no link. It’s a new game I’ve discovered wherein you blindly spend small bits of real money — $6 here, $10 there — to lease real domain names — .coms, .nets — and then sit around and wait. [...]

For those who think HTML is neither significant nor important, please keep in mind as you read this that both Karin and I earn our salaries largely because we are both fairly fluent in this language and its companions. Our food, cars, and house are (almost quite literally) largely paid for by web code.
Thus, when [...]

Eschewing fascination with a view askance of the plighte of moderne morality, transcending a somewhat troglodyte decline of soul, et plus contradictory of the favoure of mere memetic sensibilities relating towards electronic vanities and such related, as they might be named here at a later date. Elegance of forme and function, spirit and soul, life [...]

A bit of a stumble tripping me up in my running efforts has emerged. A sporadic problem with the circuit breaker on the treadmill is cutting short my kilometers. According to the little label on the breaker switch, the treadmill is rated for 10 amps. It’s plugged into a 15 amp circuit. [...]