Category: musings
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My positivity pisses people off.
I have this nasty little habbit of trying to find an up side to most situations–particularly situations that seem to centre around me and my current, shall we say, life related stresses. Jessica and I were actually talking about that during our all-night session of playing cards last night, and … Read the rest
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Surprise, you’re engaged!
Folks will be aware Jess has been here since Saturday. what many aren’t aware of, at least until now, is what happened within 24 hours of her arival. More specifically, it became very official that she’d be stuck with me for about as close to forever as she could tolerate. … Read the rest
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Have some wicked nifty cool. And an earthquake.
We felt this while out investing in things of a grocery related nature. Apparently, the center of the earthquake was about 50 KM northeast of Ottawa–in other words, right in between Ottawa and Pembroke. We didn’t feel a whole lot–kind of like the mall we were in just sort of … Read the rest
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The job market’s broken. I actually found one.
Well, okay, so it was just one that I could actually apply to and not have me be severely underqualified, but still. This marks the first job application I actually submitted since–now, let me think–March of this year. Yep, in Ottawa, of all places, the market for people with my … Read the rest
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Imagine how many decent drivers this would create.
This post on a tech blog I frequently read got me thinking, which is usually something dangerous more often than not. With the way people have been buying up lottery tickets lately, what would happen if instead of people getting pulled over and/or caught on camera just for speeding, … Read the rest
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Linode goes RAM crazy, prompts me to start considering migration.
Everyone knows about my love afair with Linux. Specificly, Gentoo. Unfortunately, it being a source-based distribution means escentially any system maintenance task–like, say, installing a new program or updating an existing one–is potentially going to be a bit of a memory hog. Hence why I started using Linode for … Read the rest
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Legal entities are catching on, just not in Canada or the US. File sharing is not illegal in Spane.
I’ve been saying it for months. And, indeed, so have several others. Now, a Spannish court has effectively agreed with me (thanks, Techdirt). Since music, the written word, etc existed, people have been lending/sharing/finding ways to copy it. Predates the internet, predates CD’s, tapes etc, predates PVR’s. And yet, … Read the rest
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Because 2 years of “file not found” is long enough.
Every so often, I have such an idiot moment that it takes me forever to realise I was a complete moron. One of those moments happened, sadly enough, during the rebirth of the blog on this domain. For folks who’ve been keeping score, I’ve actually shifted blogging platforms twice–once from … Read the rest
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Gordie Howe is now ‘doctor Howe’. The essay topic lives on.
When I was in highschool, I wrote an essay on those people I considered to be highly influencial Canadians. I don’t even remember exactly what the content of the essay was, and I’m not sure I even still have the original copy. One of the topics in question was hockey … Read the rest
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I’m going to disagree with this study. With emphasis.
There’s a study out that basicly says coffee doesn’t do much for regular drinkers of the stuff. Now, granted I don’t consider myself a regular–meaning daily–coffee drinker by any means–I get my caffeine from other sources if I need it, but I’m going to just kind of give this report … Read the rest