Enough with the iPhone 4 antenna hullabaloo. Here’s the fix.
I really can't believe no one has thought of this yet. Two out of every five people to test the new design proudly reported no lasting eye damage.
I write like…
I spotted this on the Rebecca Writes blog and pasted in one of my previous posts: I write likeDavid Foster Wallace I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal s...
If you’re looking for a scuffed but solid L-shaped full-sized wooden desk, look no further than the Whitehorse dump’s free store.
I can't think of all that much else to write. The title is pretty self-explanatory. We dropped it off this afternoon and protected it from the elements as be...
Back to my Shaving Future
In my early teens I found my grandfather's straight razor at the bottom of a dusty leather trunk. I managed to shave my wispy whiskers twice with that wicked...
What If … I used a spreadsheet?
It's the last week of the on-line Instructional Media course that I've been taking as part of the BC Provincial Instructor Diploma Program. For our final pro...
Just how long is it from Haines Junction YT to Haines AK?
Carole just got back from racing in yesterday's 18th annual Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay. No results are posted yet (she rode leg 8 for team enDUR...
Clock radios: we can finally do better
A couple of years ago, I complained at length about the state of the art in alarm clock radios. Doing so doesn't seem to have spurred anyone to invent a bett...
If copyright bill C-32 is enacted with digital lock provisions, I, and others like me, will simply choose to break the law.
Bill C-32, the Copyright Modernization Act, was introduced by the Conservative government in parliament on June 2nd. C-32 is the Tory's third attempt at copy...
From the offices of Goffnar, B’yudowan & kla Queith
To: His Excellency, the Galactic Emperor From: His Excellency's legal council, the firm of Goffnar, B'yudowan & kla Queith Re: Mounting liability concer...
I want you to invent the following…
I have a problem in need of a solution. I think I can best describe my problem through interpretive dance by showing you this photograph: It's not so mu...
Readability is the Japanese tea garden of the web.
There is a school of web design, beloved by news organizations, that lives by the motto "that space can be filled." To these folks, white pixels are a lost ...
Oh so many reasons why I’m not a better writer.
I'm guessing that a lot of us blog just because we like to write. Some of us have to write. Either way, we each expect that our writing skills improve with r...