I’ve noticed something very cool about the latest Google Toolbar. The wizards at Google have very quietly incorporated the Google Suggest features into the toolbar. When I start typing (provided I type slowly), A drop down box appears with common terms matching what I’ve typed, but with the number of hits beside it. That has…

Every now and then a list like this makes it around the internet. Have a look over here, it’s very funny. The odd part is that while these are bloopers, written by high school students, with a bit of refinement Stephen Leacock could have written them.

Here’s a university student with a great idea for paying his tuition. He’s got a page with 1 million squares of advertising space, available at $1 per square. So far he’s up to $435K already!

Microsoft has setup a new program called “Microsoft Feels Your Pain”. The video speaks better than text, have a look over here. It’s brilliant! I’m going to setup this system at work for those break the auto-build system we’ve got running. 🙂

On a whim I bought a set of Popeye DVD’s, for a whopping $6.88 at Walmart. I’ve always loved Popeye as a kid, and here was 24 episodes, color and black&white! My lovely wife doesn’t share my love for Popeye sailor man, but Noah and Mikaela think he’s the greatest. And as an added benefit,…

On Tuesday I had the opportunity to crew on the “Coyote”, a 42-foot sailboat owned by my neighbour, who incidentally works in the same department as I do. You can see a few pictures of the boat here, here (boat on the left) and here (boat on the far right). The pictures were of an…

Yesterday I biked to work. Not on my moped, but on my bicycle. Unlike my brother‘s five minute ride, it’s a 25km ride, with about 500 feet of elevation changes. The way to work is all downhill, and took an hour, including a scenic ride along the Bayfront trail. Consequently the way back is all…

I’ve joined the two-wheel commuter society, in the form of a Tomos Moped. It’s a 49cc motorbike with pedals, and falls into a dusty corner of the Highway Traffic Act (regulations for Ontario roads). It has pedals, requires a license plate, but doesn’t require a motorbike license. I get somewhere close to 100 miles per…

Now this is cool. Wired.com published this article about a company called emachineshop.com. The concept is really simple: you design parts using their free downloadable CAD software, upload the finished CAD drawing to them, they build it, FedEx ships it. Once you’ve designed it you can price it out using a variety of materials. There’s…

I’m sure every blogger has written about the disaster in New Orleans, so I’ll keep it brief. This study was written last year, describing the worst-case scenario if a large hurricane hit New Orleans. It’s exactly what happened… the paper predicts it’ll take 9 weeks to pump the water out of the city. Our thoughts…

I haven’t written in a long time because a) work was absolutely nuts for the past three weeks and b) I was sick and c) I used the Firefox password manager and d) I moved to a Mac Mini and the passwords didn’t migrate and e) the password for my own blog was in the…

Yesterday morning I managed to get out for an early morning run. Ok, you’ll realize by now that “early morning” and I don’t go together too well. Correctly stated this should read that “Yesterday morning Jodies shoved me out of bed …”. You get the idea. One of my favourite trails follows the top of…

Today is the anniversary of the first moon landing, by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. Google is commerating the occasion with moon.google.com. Try zooming in and see what the moon is really made of.

I’d like to take this moment to brag about the cuteness of my youngest daughter, viewable here by the great unwashed.

Long time no write. Now that my lovely daughter is starting to sleep a bit more, the day seems less fuzzy, and I can actually see all the letters on the keyboard. I can’t imagine what the code I’ve written in the past six weeks looks like… This article explains the various types of managers…

Apple announced a few days ago that it would be switching from IBM’s PowerPC chips to using Intel’s chips. This has left most Apple enthusiasts a big befuddled. After a few years of flaunting the PowerPC chip (faster, 64-bit, etc), they now have to buckle down and bite the Intel bullet. There doesn’t seem to…

I ran the Ancaster Old Mill 10km race last night. My goal was to finish in under 50 minutes… I sqeaked in at 49:50, placing #94 of 299 and 8/15 in my age category. It was more than 30 degrees out, but it was a great run. Lots of Ancaster residents had their sprinklers and…

Today God blessed our family with a beautiful baby girl. Kezia Raine was born this morning around 9:30, and weighs in at 8 pounds and 1 ounce. Mother and daughter are recovering well, brother Noah isn’t quite sure yet, sister Mikaela adores her new sister, and Dad is hopelessly in love with the little new…

I ran a trail race this morning, one of the 5 Peaks series in Dundas Valley. The route was 13.9 km long, and the last 0.9 km really took its toll. I started with three targets in mind: 1:15 would be a realistic time, 1:10 is ecstatic, and 1:20 would still be acceptable. Finishing was…