Can’t read this? Or anything else on the ‘net? Have a ZoneAlarm firewall? Oh snap!
Carole's Windows laptop suddenly refused to surf the web last night, right in the midst of her prolific flurry of blog postings. I started down my normal dia...
So, in simple terms, this is what Bill C-61 will do to me. Oh, and you too.
Continuing from my previous circumlocutory post, here is a simple list of the things that will be denied us by Bill C-61 should it gain Royal Assent: make b...
There can be only None. Kurgan VCR beheads my copy of Highlander. Will C-61 let me copy what remains?
That's a title guaranteed to ward off non-afficionados of cultish 80s fantasy flics. But if you're of that camp and still think you might be interested in th...
So now I need a mobile phone to use Google?
Google's App Engine opened up to the public the other day. App Engine is a platform for creating web-based programs that are hosted by Google. It's free unti...
May 23, 2008. No Furnace Day.
The propane is once again sealed within it's echoing metal caplet. All told, it's been 247 days since the furnace was started on September 19th. That seems a...
Malcolm Stigwell, Municipal Assassin
The little bit of non-technical writing that I do tends to be inspired by random odd phrases that strike me as amusing. "Municipal assassin" is one such phra...
Clearly, I am not wearing enough watches.
Or so say many hundreds of daily e-mail messages. Genuwine and authentik Rolexes and Cartiers, available at mall aisle prices. Perfect for one-upsmanship occ...
The licence to practise theatre is in the grey-coloured catalogue.
Like many Canadians, I have a subdued relationship with patriotism; the sole maple leaf in the house is sewn into a Team Canada hockey jersey that is sometim...
My name is Dave and I have not run antivirus for 245 days.
And boy does my computer run like greased light. Forget the "-ning" part: light beams are way speedier than thunderbolts. Truth be told, I do run anti-virus ...
Technical Support Free Verse
While debugging an errant process in the College's execrable system this afternoon, I found this passage in a technical support bulletin from the manufacture...
Coming home to a surprise bathroom remodelling.
Apparently, March Break gives teachers too much time at home for contemplating renovation. After four whole days off, the tired flower print lining the bathr...
Canis ut cenavit quispiam horrendus.
Three years of high-school Latin, and that's the best I can do. Still, slapping a dead language on a throwaway phrase like, oh, let's say, "the dog that ate ...