Relearning Emacs
The last time I used Emacs regularly, the computers were SPARC pizza-boxes, and every time you logged off, the screen would display how many dollars and cent...
Fracas in the Halls of Academe.
What really puts a bee in the bonnet of the elbow patch and pipe set atop the hill at Yukon College? Suspicious selection of the president? Assault in the r...
Face no longer in Book
I deleted my Facebook account this morning. Which is to say I unsubscribed from my groups and networks, erased my friends, and deactivated the account -- you...
Episode V, in which our hero drops the (Google) bomb.
Persistent readers of What He Said will have noticed my penchant for referring to the computerized behemoth that runs Yukon College as the "execrable system....
When not to use a relational database: generating HTML (for real this time)
Currently, the Nth post in a series of N databoombasetic posts. In a recent posting, I supposedly railed against the practice of generating HTML using the de...
How to convert a website’s content into simple text files.
Every so often I find the need to convert masses of web pages into simple, editable text files. (Who among us doesn't?) Programmer that I am, I also want to ...
Revenge of the Icon
A past version of my company website featured a page of favourite links, one of which led to Wikipedia. I spruced up each link with a wee favicon: the little...
When not to use a relational database: generating HTML
Yet another post in a neglected series of riveting relational databauchery. This past week I've been doing some maintenance work on the execrable system that...
Local programmer’s WTF moment hits the big time.
The Daily WTF recently posted an entry named "The Mostest Wrong Datatype" which seems -- pure coincidence, surely -- to refer to a local programmer of your a...
An efficient solution to the Christmas gift distribution problem.
My family has two methods for identifying which Christmas present is for and from whom. My mother's method is to affix little name tags to each gift, using e...
A new degree in the family.
As of today, Carole has completed all of the requirements for the Yukon Native Teacher Education Program (YNTEP). On her way home from school -- a four-month...
No, seriously. BIG-TIME IT contracting opportunities at the College.
Following last week's surprise management shuffle in the Computing Services department of Yukon College, the little birdie network reports that, as of this c...