Apr 30 2008
This audio magazine is 17 minutes long. It’s called Some Mumblin’ and Sampling From Avalon Blues, Not Much Insightful Commentary Really [removed]. If I listened to the whole thing, I probably wouldn’t post it. I’m going to remove it sometime tomorrow, regardless, so get it while you can.
There’s probably a way to encode it into [...]
Apr 30 2008
The Maltese Falcon — I saw it tonight in a theatre. It was okay, but it’s not in the same league as Casablanca. Bogart’s performance is uneven, the romantic element is unconvincing and the story isn’t too intriguing or compelling. For me, it has more style than substance. And even then, it’s not spectacular. [...]
Apr 28 2008
I bought two pants today (I felt compelled to write “two PAIRS of pants”. Why?) at Moores. I hate buying cloths, but my co-workers went there to buy a coat so I decided to wander around the place; and I am in need of new pants.
I wear 32″ waist, 30″ leg; however, the [...]
Apr 27 2008
I’m headed to St. John’s, Newfoundland today for a business trip. My employer is a system integrator of an RFID proposal and I’m the Technical Architect; there’s a company in Newfoundland who specializes in RFID solutions, whom we may partner with.
Phillip’s picking me up at the airport. His big plans for me:
Go to [...]
Apr 26 2008
An Interview with Donald Knuth where he talks about open source, reusable code, Linux, and other stuff:
…authors these days often introduce arcane methods that outperform the simpler techniques only when the problem size exceeds the number of protons in the universe. Such algorithms could never be important in a real computer application. I read hundreds [...]
Apr 26 2008
You can now receive email notifications when someone posted a comment to a post: just check the Notify me of followup comments via e-mail box under the Submit Comment button.
The email notification will contain the comment itself, plus links to the post, comments, and a link to manage your email subscriptions, so you can remove [...]
Apr 25 2008
Post Is Clear is a WordPress Plugin I wrote to insert <br clear=”all”/> at the end of posts, to ensure images and objects don’t wrap into successive posts. Phillip and I were manually inserting the code, although I did hack the WordPress code to insert it, but that code is lost whenever I upgrade [...]
Apr 24 2008
…this ticket is a winner.
The draw is tomorrow. Someone email me if my numbers match and I forget to check them right away. Thanks.
Apr 24 2008
Jody and I have received genuine, no-fooling, legit photo credits, all of them on the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website.
Mine appears in the Arts and Economy article.
Jody has two photo credits. The first is in the article on Rural Depopulation in Newfoundland and Labrador; the second appears in Depopulation Impacts.
All the articles are written by [...]
Apr 23 2008
The illegal use of guns is major news in Newfoundland: Gun used in sub shop robbery: RNC
While robberies at retailers and fast-food shops happen frequently in the St. John’s area, knives are more commonly used than guns.
Getting killed by moose is more common.
Apr 22 2008
Phillip and I redesigned NIFCO’s website (Newfoundland Independent Filmmakers Co-Operative), releasing it to the public today.
The old:
The new:
Phillip’s main job was making the aesthetic decisions, getting the requirements from the customer. My main job was implementing the new look.
I don’t enjoy designing the look of websites. I love the behind-the-scene stuff, but finding [...]
Apr 20 2008
At this moment, I’m creating a single DVD slideshow of all the digital photos or snapshots I’ve taken since 2003 (when I got my first digital camera). I simply dragged-and-dropped my entire “My Pictures” directory into Nero’s photo slideshow thing, whatever it’s called. It’s been transferring the photos for the past 15 minutes and it’s [...]
Apr 18 2008
I bought a bottle of pop today, which I haven’t done in 20 or more years. I’ll drink a little pop if I’m eating pizza or similar fast food and it’s provided for me, but I never buy it - we never have it in the house; but today, while buying a bag of [...]
Apr 17 2008
I didn’t watch any movies for the past two weeks. So I got nothing. Well, maybe not nothing…
I’ve been watching TV shows off DVDs instead (and playing video games). I come home from work and I don’t have the energy to do much of anything else. My evenings are split between playing classic arcade games [...]
Apr 15 2008
My 30 year old Honda CB550 motorcycle is making me nervous. Last year its electrical system wasn’t acting normal: fuses would blow every week or so. I eventually put a higher voltage (I think) in it, which seems to have solved the problem, but it made me nervous: I fear the 30 year [...]
