Only seven more days until my canoe trip. I’m taking Noah (4 years old) for his first canoe trip, to Massasauga Provincial park, just south of Parry Sound. We’re going with Noah’s Uncle Ben, who’s a large strapping young lad, just itching to carry the canoe, packs, and Noah all at the same time. Noah’s…

This weekend Noah turned four years old. I can’t believe how fast time goes. Without sounding like an old guy, it seems just like yesterday that he would lie in my arms, just smiling at the world. In fact, it was yesterday… for about 5 seconds while I told him what he was like when…

I finally recieved one of the covetted gmail invites! So now I’ve got an email account that has 1000Mb of space, complete with Google’s searching capabilities and Google’s spam fighting technology. Hoopla! Email me at “hart DOT mike AT gmail DOT com” (replacing the words in caps with their equivalent symbols of course).

It’s very important to fully understand and define a problem before trying to solve it. I overheard a story that illustrates this quite nicely. A mother heard her three-year old son screaming hysterically in the bathroom, and ran over to see what was wrong. He was holding his hand up in the hair, looking at…

Last week we were blessed with a weeklong stay at a cottage on Muskoka Lake. The weather didn’t cooperate, but we had a great time. Pictures are available here.

It has come to my attention that several people have claimed the status of ‘geek’ when it is glaringly obvious that they are not geeks. So here’s a quick and dirty geek test. You must pass the test to be able to call yourself a geek. Put your answers as a comment, and I’ll post…

I’m thoroughly disgusted by Canadians. We’ve once again voted in the Liberals. While they don’t have a a majority government (even with the help of the NDP), they are still the ruling party. I mean, they’ve only wasted a few billion on the gun registry, and a few more billion on the sponshorship hoopla… but…

Wednesday evening Noah (four year old son, picture is elsewhere in this blog) threw a rock through our car window. That wouldn’t have been so bad, except the window was closed. Thankfully the windows are designed with this sort of mishap in mind, and don’t shatter into a million sharp splinters. Instead they explode into…

Tuesday June 15 saw another successful rendition of the Campfire! Golf tournament. It’s held at the Guelph Lakes golf course. We had 144 golfers, and the weather was excellent. We raised almost $21,000 for campfire! Apart from a wounded bird (killed in midflight by an errant golf ball), a bruised Canada goose (stopped a 150…

The original purpose of this blog was computer-related, so here’s my first related post. Last week I dealt with pessimisted entity beans. There are also optimistic entity beans. Wait! Before I lose you in what Dr. Seuss describes as goobly-gook, let me explain. Not what entity beans have to do with pessimism, but more about…

Last night we had a storm that dumped 100 millimeters of rain in less than two hours. Included in the mix was lightning, hail, and strong winds. There’s a waterfall coming down the Hamiton escarpment beside Highway 403 that’s normally pretty tame. Last night it looked like Niagara Falls. There was so much pressure that…

This post serves two purposes. The first is to shamelessly brag about my two beautiful children. The second is to test uploading of files to this blog.

Everything’s an opportunity for Advertising. Not my quote, but a colleagues’ quote after walking by some guy sitting in a lawn chair on a tiny piece of artificial turf on the corner of Yonge and Bloor in downtown Toronto. Looks like he was hawking Mike’s Hard Lemonade. Earlier in the day we walked through Union…

Welcome to the newly created blog called ‘cyberento’! It’s not entirely complete yet, but a good start nonetheless. Cyberento is a short form for “Cybernetic Entomology”, which is a term coined by a certain Mr. Lubarsky. The Lubarsky’s Law of Cybernetic Entomology reads: “There is always one more bug”. cheers!