The Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer is taking off very soon in an attempt to fly around the world (23,000 miles) without stopping or refueling, in 80 hours. And the route is pretty much right over Hamilton! It’s taking off from Kansas, then heading up over Canada, over London and Toronto. Hamilton is sorta right on…

Have a look at this site, kinda like 1984.

Check out this place. Nevermind all the fancy homes in Toronto or cottages in the Muskoka’s buy your own country in the Arabian sea, and build your own kingdom there. Talk about opulence going way too far.

I’ve upgrade my site to WordPress 1.5, which comes with this lovely default theme. Since I’m by no means a graphic designer, I’ll probably leave it like this. The following changes are now in effect: If you’ve posted a comment before, you’ll be allowed to post again. If you’ve never posted a comment and try,…

I’ve always been a big fan of Google, using Google as my primary search engine (including Google Toolbars on all my browsers), Google Groups, and now….. Google Maps! This is the FIRST mapping service that can successfully find my house! And it’s got an excellent user interface, a much larger map than Mapquest/Yahoo! Maps… I’ve…

We have a Saturday morning tradition of visitting our local Tim Horton’s coffee shop. Sometimes this involves driving through the drive-thru on our way elsewhere. The post with the speaker/microphone is surrounded by two garbage cans, in an effort to keep the old coffee cups off the streets. Mikaela (2.5 years old) is convinced that…

There are few good media personalities that I can really identify with. Allan Fotheringham, formerly on the back page of Macleans (and many other places) was one of them. Roy Green of Hamilton’s CHML-900 fame, and now syndicated in the Chorus radio network, is another. (He used to join the morning show of the Y108…

Last weekend we went to Horseshoe Valley, just north of Barrie. It was one of those $99 for two nights, all you have to do is listen to a spiel to buy a timeshare kind of deal. It made for a great weekend, apart from the relatively low-pressure spiel. We took Noah and Mikaela along,…

Hamilton has got to be the only place in the world where you can get a parking ticket for parking in your own driveway. The builder of our subdivision, in his infinite wisdom, placed the sidewalks a long ways away from the road, leaving us without enough room to park two vehicles. The alternatives we…

My hammered dulcimer is finally complete! Well… almost. There’s a few more things that need to be done, including replacing the bass bridge, finishing the very rough hammers, and learning how to play it. I’ve posted some pictures at my Dulcimer gallery. Specifically, a full pictures of the finished product, a view from the players…

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The picture of the week was sent to me today, (read “I can’t verify the authenticity but it is good for a laugh) from a 1954 Popular Mechanics. It’s RAND Corporation’s idea of what a home computer would look like in 2004. Not sure about you, but this beast sure doesn’t look like what I’ve…

The discerning reader will quickly realize that this blogger has failed miserably in his quest of posting a picture of the week. So far the posting rate is around 1 in 29 years. Some quick extrapolation shows the picture isn’t due until 2035. Hark, what is that sound? Why, it’s the sound of not one,…

Want to start blogging and don’t know how? Rent a blogger for three months…

Two hydrogen atoms were talking, and one said “I just lost an electron!”. The second replied “Are you positive?” 🙂

On Saturday Jodie (my lovely better half) and I attended the annual awards dinner for the Mcmaster Association of Parttime Students (MAPS)… Jodie won a scholarship for having one of the top 5 running averages of the 2400 or so students. That’s not the top 5%, but the top 5, as in 1,2,3,4,5! Congratulations Jodie!

We’ve been fighting a bug for the past few weeks, one of the worst kinds. Not a viral physical kind, but a cybernetic kind. It’s intermittent, and only pops up in something like 0.01% of the time. Turns out (the brilliant programmer I’m working with found it, not me) that in the 11,000 or so…

In case you’ve been living in a vacuum the past few days, Mozilla released the latest version of their web browser, Firefox v1.0. It’s available at www.mozilla.org, and it’s only 4.7Mb… attainable even if you’re on the poor end of a 56K modem. Download it now!

I found my first grey hair last night. I’m not even 30 yet. Bah. I’ve warned my lovely folicles that if the trend continues, they’ll all be shaved off. I don’t think my wife would be too happy about that though. So how does one spell ‘grey hair’. Is it gray hair or grey hair?…