Steel White Table

User Name and Password, a video by Darren Barefoot, illustrating one aspect of a geek’s life:

Darren’s site is down as I post this. Maybe his site has been digged.
My question: where or how do you store all the login information? Post-it notes is a silly but popular method.

The switch to and from daylight savings time is something I’d rather live without.

Jenny picked up a $50 (Canadian) ukulele guitar at O’Brien’s a couple weeks ago. She’s learning how to play guitar on it.
It has steel strings and sounds like a ukulele, but, depending on how it’s played, it can also sound like a banjo and a mandolin (to my untrained ear, that is). It’s a versatile [...]

Lottery retailers in Ontario are winning the lotto a tad too much to be a coincidence, according to CBC in Lottery retailers enjoying luck of the draw:
…in the past seven years Ontario clerks and retailers have claimed lottery victories nearly 200 times, a statistical anomaly according to one expert.
“So we can say the chance, to [...]

A little melancholy violin music goes a long way:

What do the terms “bottom,” “top,” “charm,” “down,” “strange” and “up” refer to?

This is a recycled post from Mud Songs.
Flash websites are my #1 online pet peeve. Some filmmakers, film companies and film festival organizers seem to be in love with flash, but I’m not sure it’s such a good move. Here’s why:
1) Accessing information through flash animation can be impractical. Flash may look nice, but it [...]

Commercial whaling is making a comeback - Iceland kills whale, breaking international ban:
Iceland’s Fisheries Ministry has estimated there are more than 43,000 minke whales and 25,000 fin whales in Iceland’s coastal waters. A limited commercial hunt, it has said, would be “consistent with the principle of sustainable development.”
Iceland stopped commercial whaling in 1986 and scientific [...]

I’ve owned a VIC-20, Nintendo, and Super Nintendo. I currently own a Nintendo 64 and a Playstation 2, which I rarely play. Yet, I still read about new games and the industry. Here are the games I own:

Tags: games, half-life, n64, nintendo, pc, playstation, ps2

I recently used Excel for the first time in my life. I created a database for all my DVDs.
This is what it looks like as an old-fashsioned web page. (Apparently, I could have made the page interactive, but that requires Internet Explorer. Screw that.) I also have some TV shows on DVD, but it takes [...]

Episode 8 of Jody Checks His Loto Numbers, with Caitlyn making funny faces. This episode is rather dull, except for Caitlyn.

Previous episodes.

As I reported previously, Tommyboy is looking to get voted on his town’s council; however, his pink election signs are being stolen:
They’ve been disappearing at an alarming rate since the first ones went up Saturday night, he said.
“If it keeps up, he’ll have none left long before election day.”
Pink figures it must be people collecting [...]

Robots kills 13 Afghan civilians during battle
That’s what I read as I glanced at CBC’s website this morning: “Robots” instead of “Rockets”.
It’ll happen someday!

Don’t you hate it when you can’t finish a book?
I recently began reading Pilgrim by Timothy Findley. I read his novel, The Piano Man’s Daughter, when it came out years ago and enjoyed it, though I don’t remember much about it except a sentence that went something like: “She had the kind of smile that [...]

A woman walked by with her Newfoundland dog while I waited for the bus this morning. It’s a 2 year old female, small for its age: 130 pounds (the dog, not the woman). A beautiful, friendly animal (the dog, not the woman, although she was nice too).
I quickly judged the dog’s temperament, seeing [...]