Category Archives: General

My home PC is at the point where it needs to be rebuilt – things are crashing and stalling all the time, and it’s just not a fun experience overall.At the same time, we’ve got an old dual-G4 mac kicking … Continue reading →

I saw yesterday in the Toronto Star that William Gibson was coming to town that night for a talk as part of This is not a Reading Series to promote his new work, Spook Country.  I didn’t have time to … Continue reading →

So today I got lured into a Yahoo News link to some video. I can’t remember what the video was about, but golly whiskers, it sure seemed important at the time, so you could imagine my disappointment when instead of … Continue reading →

I admit, I never studied compiler design or parsers back in school, but when I see Martin Fowler trying a simple “Hello World” type thing that involves cameras and lasers, I’m tempted to hit the books again. Seriously, if all … Continue reading →

Overheard after some cutting-and-pasting of some boilerplate PHP code found through The Google: Can you imagine what it would be like to code for the web without the internet?

David Crow notes that Toronto’s Indoor Playground has revealed its pricing and is having an open house. I’m working in an office now after a year and a half of working from home, but this would have been pretty sweet … Continue reading →

A few miscellaneous things to round out the week: ReSharper has a new build available. On the whole, it seems faster and objects to more of my code, but they did something with the way they handle brackets as you … Continue reading →

My friend Kathleen once mused about how some bits of technology are going to vanish in our lifetime. Her example was the raised numbers on a credit card, and while I don’t necessarily believe her, I think I see the … Continue reading →

If you’re going to be doing any kind of demonstration from your laptop, in the name of all that’s holy, create a demo user account.  This will accomplish two things: It’ll ensure that you didn’t leave an IM client logged … Continue reading →