September 19, 2007. Furnace Day.
The house was a toe-tingling 11°C when I returned from work this afternoon. Fortunately, I had thought to open the outside propane valves this morning; usual...
For the first time in many a year, tomorrow is not a school day.
As befits the approach of mid-life, I'm starting something new this fall. Thing is, I don't exactly know what that will be. What it won't be is something at ...
Here be the news.
I've given up telling other people -- including family -- what it is that I've been up to of late. Talking to other people, well, that's just not the sort of...
Privacy and the Network
It took me a while to thumbnail-ify it, but this is the poster that I submitted as the major assignment in last term's SOCI209: Society, Technology, and Valu...
A spoon full of programming makes the medicine go down.
Now that the school year is wrapped up, my other College job has me wrangling reports all the live long day. The better part of the work is fixing problems. ...
Following a 3,438 minute hiccup, What He Said has returned.
I've been trying to install the Ruby programming language on this server for some time, mostly so that I can doodle about with Ruby on Rails. I had aborted t...
Today I am the “P” in PEBKAC
What He Said has a little-used PEBKAC category. The acronym stands for "Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair" and is a favourite of the beleaguered comp...
Whither the computing students?
The Computer Studies department at the College set its second-year program of courses for the upcoming academic year. The normal slate would consist of five ...
Do we really need Top-Level Domains?
I was recently invited to sign a petition that calls for the .ca top-level domain (TLD) to be further categorized into specific second-level domains (SLDs): ...
Just who are the people in your Whitehorse neighbourhood?
CBC released a story recently claiming that fully one-third of Yukoners have criminal records. At the same time, we know that approximately 4,000 volunteers ...
How is it possible that Oracle both sucks and blows?
I spent Friday morning installing -- er, trying to install -- Oracle database ODBC drivers so that some College staff could connect to our shiny new server u...
Funk! Canada Winter Games stinks up Yukon College.
The Canada Winter Games are just about over, and not a moment too soon. Much longer, and people would be keeling over from the stench. That, or the whole pla...