Pro Bono Web Mojo: SID Ottawa-Gatineau website
Every so often, I get the chance to do some good ol' website development. Bright, crisp, and attractive design is not exactly my forté though, so I generally...
The Perfect Hiding Place
People devise the most overly complex hiding places for their treasures, legacies, and skeletons. Hollywood proffers an entire subgenre devoted to the subjec...
Global Warming confirmed: Furnace Day 2008 delayed three whole days.
No statistician worth her σ2 would call that a confirmation. Nonetheless, the summer that many considered the most cold, damp, and dreary in recent memory he...
They thought it was a goner, but the Mac came back; it just wouldn’t stay away.
Carole brought home a shiny new MacBook Pro from school the other day. Apparently they just give 'em away to teachers. Students too -- the older ones -- from...
You are reading this from an unmanaged Virtual Private Server.
It's such a rare and pleasant experience to find exactly what you were looking for. Just his past week, I asked here and elsewhere for a recommended VPS host...
Can anyone recommend an unmanaged Virtual Private Server hosting company?
I host four of my own sites from a cranky old Celeron box in the spare bedroom: this blog, Carole's blog, my brother's site, and my company site (including s...
Don’t you think it’s time you learned about databases?
For one final time, I will be teaching the COMP210: Database Design course this fall at Yukon College. The curriculum changes the following year; database co...
My Stack Overfloweth
Early this morning (I was up at 4am to watch the Olympic opening ceremonies), I received an invitation to the beta of Stack Overflow, a Q&A site for comp...
Go ahead and hate me. I’m actually enjoying the rain.
You can't go fifteen minutes in this town without someone complaining about the summer weather: snow in June, frost in July outside of town (I had a garden h...
The Making of a Simile.
If I'm going to scan one 90s-era sock puppet cartoon, I might as well scan two: Funny or not, I just love googly eyes.
Yet More Bicycle Storage Foofaraw.
Now that much of the hubbub over the College's bicycle storage offerings has died down -- thank-you, Laurie -- perhaps we can return to the question of alter...
There are no babies in this Urban Yukon post.
If you're a daily reader of the posts on Urban Yukon, you may have noticed a trend of late: babies. And not just one, mind, but scores of the little buggers,...