Officially disguised as a Canadian
Yesterday I took the plunge, after that silent advice you get from a dentist that says a lot more than actual words, and got braces for the next two years. Hopefully it will resolve longstanding issues I’ve had with crowding, cleaning and eating, not least root canal on two molars. Today, I’m in a smallContinue reading Braces
I ran into an interesting problem recently, which I only resolved today though a bit of trickery. With the release of OneDrive, Microsoft replaced the existing SkyDrive application on OS X with a new binary. It still refers to the same ~/SkyDrive folder on the file system, but it’s definitely different. One of the majorContinue reading Symbolic links and Microsoft OneDrive on OS X Mavericks
Mother-in-law came to stay for six weeks. We went to Banff, Lake Louise, and back to Banff again. Earlier this month, the Calgary Men’s Chorus sent a contingent to New York to perform in a show at Carnegie Hall with a group of other choirs from the US. It was fantastic. We put in anContinue reading Catching up
Many years ago, my parents introduced me to Arlo Guthrie’s classic, “Alice’s Restaurant”. Meanwhile, on Metafilter, someone put together the ultimate link porn tribute to this song. Check it out. (Source.)
Six-One or Up is the latest post I’ve written on Born SQL’s blog. This piece talks about the end of life of Windows XP and Server 2003 R2, and why you should upgrade.
In May 2006, I lamented that there isn’t enough time to do the things I want to do. Amusingly, on that very day, I started a (parody) religion, which eventually became known as The Smiters of Iniquity. That has fizzled a bit, but I did it. So what else on that list from seven-and-a-half yearsContinue reading Bits
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. — Laurence Binyon
This image was produced using Kid Pix (by Craig Hickman), on the PCE.js Mac Plus emulator running Mac OS System 7 (by James Friend). It’s my art, so if you use it, please attribute it correctly.
This is reposted without permission from Neil Gaiman’s Journal, from an entry titled “in the wee small hours of the morning” (7 June 2006): Hi Neil, I’ve been a fan of your work for awhile now and I just came across your site. I’ve had this nagging question, about authors, stuck in my brain forContinue reading “The art isn’t the artist” – Neil Gaiman
I have no archive of my old websites. What you see here today is the result of many (many!) years of iteration and improvement. Ten years ago, on 12 October 2003 I attempted to get the search engines of the world to link back here, by listing the old URLs where my website has lived.Continue reading Redirecting the Internet