Just a little server housekeeping.
Yesterday was Database Upgrade Day -- from MySQL 4.x to 5.0 -- which is why, had you visited, you would've noticed a big fat WordPress error message rather t...
No denying it this time. The streak is over.
Until last summer, I had been riding a 7+ year cold-and-flu-free streak. In quick succession, I succumbed to a flu, two common colds, and, just yesterday, a ...
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I do battle with four computers: home office Windows XP workstation, Ubuntu Linux laptop, College office Windows XP workstation, and any one of 60 College c...
I’m walkin’, yes indeed, and I’m listenin’, to the CBC.
Now that I'm a five-day-a-week workin' man (see previous posting), I've decided to walk to work at least four of those five days. Walking home from work is a...
Back to work at school. Breaking a half of two rules.
As of this past Thursday, I am once again a full-time employee of the College. In addition to the two courses I was already teaching, I'm now a programmer in...
What to do with a day-and-a-half while in Ottawa.
We flew back to Ontario this past Christmas, both to better familiarize ourselves with that province's many fine airport facilities, and, incidentally, visit...
What He Said readership surges 400% after joining Urban Yukon.
Whitehorse (Reuters): Ecstatic officials of the What He Said weblog announced today that a recent escalation in Internet traffic was threatening to overwhelm...
The perfect northern automobile.
Another crisp November morn in the Yukon. Through the parts of the windows that haven't frosted over, the day looks bright, cheerful, and at -35°C, utterly u...
Weather Network predicts -48°C for Monday
I don't have the complete temperature history in front of me, but I'd say that -48°C in early November is likely to break a record or two. And that's the hig...
Users can’t make errors.
I was formatting a Microsoft Word document the other day. I use Word's styles as much as possible: I teaches 'em, so I uses 'em. To format the title paragrap...
“Stylish” fix for redesigned Salon.com’s hyperlinks.
Readers of the on-line magazine Salon -- the War Room is my favourite section -- may have noticed that the site's recent redesign doesn't visibly distinguish...
Ubuntu over unsecured Wi-Fi
We were dog-sitting out in the country a few weeks ago in a house featuring an unprotected wireless access point. Normally, I would have cautioned the owner ...