It was a dark and stormy night…
I have to admit to occasionally having difficulty understanding why the line "it was a dark and stormy night" is subject to such derision in literary circles. I mean, seriously:…
Battle…
Last night when I went to sleep (a couple of hours after Irene), I found one of Irene's greatest fears scurrying across the bathroom floor...a spider. This one stopped as…
Do the math…
My wife and I have a lot of animal companions. Seven cats and a dog share our house, and a horse is stabled a few minutes away. Most of the…
Windows Vista…
Microsoft has been working on their next generation operating system, codenamed "Longhorn", for several years now. Its been delayed several times, had features stripped ... and now has been given…
Hot…
Its hot today. I think it must have gotten up to maybe 30 degrees celsius. You folks from tropical climates are probably shivering at the thought, but 30 degrees is…
Goodbye, James…
James Doohan, better known to the world as Montgomery Scott or just "Scotty", passed away on Wednesday. I actually met the man himself once, although only in passing. It was…
Dreaded favicon
Anyone who runs a website has undoubtedly seen it. Hundreds of errors in the logfiles saying "File does not exist: /../favicon.ico" Years ago, someone in the browser world came up…
Gordon Kirkland
When Irene and I were at Harrison Hotsprings last weekend, we noticed a beautiful golden coloured dog laying near where some conference-type people had set up their sign-in table. We…
Another night…another bug
I'm still awake, and its 1:00 am on a work day. Why am I still up, you ask? Well, its like this. The other day I edited one of my…
ACPI and standby
My main personal computer crashed last week, as I mentioned on July 12. I managed to get everything working again, with one exception- standby mode. I had disabled all power…