· I ♥ Bit Torrent (December 2004 )

Man, I love Bit Torrent. How else could I keep up on not only Battlestar Galactica, but Drawn Together as well?...

· Nifty (September 2004 )

I don't think it's wrong to want these sunglasses. In prescription, of course....

· Wow. (June 2004 )

This CG movie is really, freakishly well done. The blurb says it was rendered on an Athlon 1.4Ghz machine... but what's really amazing about it is the realism and expressions (even if there is a little Uncanny Valley action going on here)....

· Homo Interneticus (June 2004 )

Interesting article on the mentality of the Internet user.

· Unison (April 2004 )

For later reference.

· One for the geeks... (March 2004 )

OK geeks.... have at it!

· IP Addresses of the 29 people being targeted by the CRIA (February 2004 )

Are you one of the 29? I'm not!

· wireless piggiebackers (January 2004 )

Airsnare will alert you of unauthorized wireless users.

· Get the real facts (January 2004 )

Why hasn't someone made a rebuttal to the MS claims against Linux?

· Securing Wireless (October 2003 )

CommsDesign - Securing Wireless Links: Part 1 ...since I have a wireless router and PC card sitting on the floor next to me here at work. (hint: Staples has a GREAT deal on a D-Link DI-614+ wireless router. $69 after mail-in rebate ($89 regular price... which beats London Drugs' price of $159 on the same model) (Incidentally, there may just be an open access point near my house.) Update: It turns out there is a wireless access point near me - probably right next door, given the strength of the signal. However, the people have done their homework, and have encrypted the connection. My own wireless router broadcasts from upstairs to the main floor quite nicely, with a clear, strong signal. It was nifty sitting on the couch watching TV while surfing. My inner geek was quite peaceful....

· farking spammers. (October 2003 )

Argh. I've had enough of the damned comment spammers on this site. As a result, I've removed HTML from comments, and and URL field from the comments page....

· A question... (October 2003 )

So here's a question for you folks... Kirsten needs to replace the network card on her laptop, because the stupid dongle thing is doing what all stupid dongle things do, and is slowly breaking. So, do we get her another network card for $50 (linksys has a nic without the dongle), or do we spend an extra $100 or so and go wireless? The actual network card is around the same price as a wired one, but we'd have to get a wireless router and hook my machines up to it. The computer room is eventually going to end up in the basement, but I have to remodel a room down there to accomodate it first (it's currently a carpeted bedroom). Until we get around to doing that, we're going to toss the computers upstairs in the spare bedroom....

· Can I get a big DUH? (September 2003 )

The Seattle Times: Supertypist Mavis Beacon Is A Creation Of Marketing People actually believed that Mavis Beacon was real?...

· Music copying legal in Canada? (September 2003 )

This article suggests that the levies on blank media makes copying music legal in Canada. The argument in the article is shaky for legally using P2P services like Kazaa and Gnutella to share files... but does lend much credence to having MP3s of your own music. On the other hand, those same levies have generated some 70 million dollars of revenue for he music industry in Canada. So you could say that the music you download is already paid for....

· the internet is made of people... ()

die puny humans: wants us to know that the Internet is Made of Humans... he wants everyone to send in a picture of their face today. Hit the main page of the site to see what he's got so far....

· Just when you think they couldn't get any lower... (September 2003 )

The RIAA sues a 12 year old girl. That's pretty low....

· Ernie Ball has, well... (August 2003 )

Sterling Ball got rid of all the Microsoft products in his business. Why? Because the Microsoft-supported BSA raided and sued his business for having software sitting unused on hand-me-down PCs in his clerical department. After settling for $100,000, and having the BSA drag their business' name through the press, he vowed to never use a Microsoft product again. Ball claims that he "saved $80,000 right away by going to open source" and has been able to inexpensively run thin clients in his company. Productivity has gone way up, because only needed programs are installed: "For somebody whose job is filling forms all day, invoicing and exporting, why do they need a Web browser?"...

· Qwerty or Dvorak? It doesn't matter! (July 2003 )

Roy at work sent this out to all the doc team: The Straight Dope: Was the QWERTY keyboard purposely designed to slow typists? It turns out QWERTY isn't as far behind Dvorak as is thought......

· not that bad... (June 2003 )

According to Bill Gates, Big Brother isn't all that bad. Comforting words from the chief architect of a company currently working on Operating System stuffed to the gills with 'digital rights management' software. Why do I get the feeling that the phrase, "Orwell's vision didn't come true, and I don't believe it will" will be just as accurate a statement as "640k should be enough for anybody"?...

· nifty site of the day (January 2003 )

The Rosetta Project: Welcome This is probably the best idea I've seen in a long, long time....

· drool factor 12 (January 2003 )

Apple - PowerBook G4 17" 17". 17". I need a moment to myself....

· the bottom ten... (December 2002 )

10 Worst Search Engines...

· banned in the PRC! (December 2002 )

I'm happy to say that static|red is available in China. nasty is not. Check your own site!...

· search engines... (November 2002 )

Anyone know of an online service (preferably non-pay) that can track keyword usage on the major search engines? I already know of wordtracker, but I'm looking for other solutions as well. Any ideas?...

· the (male) pill (November 2002 )

By 2005, a male birth control pill should be available - this should come as a welcome option to men and women alike, in monogamous relationships. The pill essentially reduces the sperm count to zero, with no noticable side effects aside from slight weight gain (in comparison, there are several more side effects in existing birth control pills for women). In clinical trials, all participants' sperm counts dropped to zero. And, according to the researchers, "any breathing male is a candidate."...

· all the fun of 1970s computing, today! (October 2002 )

IBM has announced a brand new computing strategy, aimed at big business -- selling computing power in the same fashion as electrical power. Isn't this exactly how 'computer time' worked back in the days of the mainframe? Students were given computing credits for time on the mainframe - if you ran out of credits (you didn't), you were SOL for getting anything done... It's a great idea for businesses that occassionally need supercomuting power, but can't afford to keep a supercomputer on premises..... but it's not all that innovative or new an idea. ;)...

· bleah! (October 2002 )

Windows just keeps getting Uglier and uglier......

· nifty! (October 2002 )

VisualRoute Server Neat little java applet to visually traceroute....

· Quake creator has his head in the clouds (October 2002 )

John Carmack has entered into the X-Prize contest....

· Phoenix (October 2002 )

I just downloaded Phoenix, Yet Another Stripped Down Mozilla Client. So far, so good, though it doesn't seem as zippy as Mozilla does, for some reason....

· wham, boom.. to the moon! (September 2002 )

Private moon venture given U.S. clearance Perhaps they can answer the ages old question: "What time is it on the moon?"...

· nobody told me... (August 2002 )

..but my pseudo brother-in-law, twice removed has published an article: How Linux Could Become the Next Killer Desktop Way to go, Del!...

· wow... (August 2002 )

They IBM PC was 21 years old yesterday. And if you read a little further down the page, the Ad-Lib sound card is 15 years old this month. The Ad-Lib was the first sound card availble to consumers, and did a bang-up job of making really poor sound. I picked one up with my 'new' computer (a 286/12!) and had it for the longest time (until I bought a used Sound Blaster card)....

· all I know... ()

...is I want to ride this when it's made......

· what happens when the hard drives fail? (July 2002 )

Shift.com - feature - THE DIGITAL DARK AGE In other news, the big news is a little delayed yet - I can't tell you until tonight at about 6pm MST. And even more news, my good buddy Alan and his girlfriend Andrea are coming up to visit for the weekend! They get in tonight, after a 12-13 hour drive from Abbotsford...

· America's Army out (July 2002 )

So, America's Army is out and available for download......

· in a little more detail... (July 2002 )

I mentioned briefly my exploits over the weekend, but nothing in great detail... so here it is now....

· yeesh! (June 2002 )

After not a small amount of shoving, I managed to wedge an 80GB hard drive in my home machine, along with a new case and a CD-RW/R/DVD drive... The case & CD-RW install went peachy and fast, but the HD took forever to install. It turns out the BIOS I had in this board didn't support higher than 32GB... so I ran through every K7M BIOS I could find... Eventually, I found a beta BIOS that seemed to do the trick -- a day later!...

· the bastards! (June 2002 )

There's a lot of domain hijacking going on these days... the most recent of which happened to our dear friend Julie......

· gah! (June 2002 )

Is VHS obsolete? - with my experience yesterday trying to find a VHS copy of The Matrix, I'd say yes, it is. Two of the stores I went into (London Drugs and Future Shop) didn't even carry VHS anymore. The rest carried VHS, but mostly on discount racks. I guess I could have seen this coming - I just didn't expect it quite so quickly....

· Isn't that what a carnivore does? (May 2002 )

It seems that Carnivore isn't as selective as the FBI thinks... Carnivore is the FBI's email & web monitoring software, which the US Government is attempting to have installed on the mail servers of every ISP in America. It seems that instead of capturing data from a single, specified source, it has been capturing data from additional unauthorized sources. Of course, why they don't just tap into Echelon or Echelon 2 escapes me. (Aside from the fact they don't want to acknowledge the existence of Echelon/2, despite the plethora of evidence)...

· *drool* (May 2002 )

I just finished watching the trailer for DUALITY, a new game put out by Trilobite Graphics and Phantagram Interactive... This looks good... looks like I'm going to have to go out and get that 3D card one of these days......

· *BANG* (April 2002 )

Guth's Grand Guess...

· I bet they're little and green! (February 2002 )

Europa's conditions could nurture life...

· can't wait... ()

British Library digitises Chaucer for the internet -- very cool....

· I love science... (February 2002 )

Geneticists at USCD have uncovered evidence that gives strong confirmation to the theory of evolution. The paper illustrates how large-scale changes in body shape/composition were achieved during the early evolution of animals... Go take a read!...

· ugh. (January 2002 )

You know app customization is getting out of hand when you find a skinnable port scanner...

· *droooool* ()

Dual Head, Dual 1Ghz G4. Give me one of these, and two Cinema displays, and I'll be a happy guy.... ;)...

· and who said fark.com wasn't educational? (January 2002 )

A Moment of Science: Male Nipples--Why?...

· pretty cool. ()

iLoJack - A fantastic story of how AppleScript helped keep sensitive data from the prying eyes of a thief and helped recover a stolen iMac....

· star trek physics (January 2002 )

Sounds like we're only a few steps away from using antimatter for spaceflight. Of course, as the article states, nobody knows where to find antimatter in the wild, so we have to produce it ourselves. However, if they eventually start using this technology to explore, then they might just find it in the theorized dark matter......

· Please lick this iMac (January 2002 )

Probably the best article I've read so far about the new iMac....

· there is no date. (January 2002 )

Wired's Vaporware 2001: Empty Promises...

· neat ()

Anyone want to buy me the new iBook? :)...

· good choices, all around... (January 2002 )

TIME.com - Best and Worst...

· Happy birthday, Marconi! (December 2001 )

The Wireless is 100 years old today....

· I can't even begin to tell you what's wrong with this... (December 2001 )

KPMG are morons...

· ah, I wish I was doing this... (December 2001 )

'Bronze Age Pompeii' Found Buried by Vesuvius...

· IT released... ()

IT was recently released, and Time has a special story on it. I'm a little disappointed at the initial cost of the device, but it is a great idea....

· the lost city of.... (November 2001 )

Davezilla linked to this Update on Underwater Megalithic Structures near Western Cuba... Read my response below......

· random poetry (November 2001 )

Coaxing the Machine: An end-user's experiment with Computer Programming. Neat project cooked up by a friend of K & me in Edmonton....

· They say they're doing it as a collaborative work of art, but maybe they're trying to find the secret military base on the dark side of the moon... (November 2001 )

The Paint the Moon project sounds like fun... if I had a laser pointer, I'd probably join in....

· truly cool stuff... (November 2001 )

Researchers in Britain have created computer animations depicting how Australopithicus might have walked. It turns out they are likely very similar to the modern orangutan, which walkes upgright for short distances. The article also includes a link to Walking with Beasts, a BBC documentary....

· '04 comeback... ()

Bruce Lee's Fantastic Comeback...

· look at all the pretty lights... (November 2001 )

The leonids are coming this weekend......

· parasitic computing (November 2001 )

I posted this awhile ago, but came across it in my archives and thought I'd post it again....

· (October 2001 )

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine...

· shiny... (October 2001 )

The Shiny Aluminum Case...

· GUI Gallery ()

Graphical User Interface Gallery nods to foz....

· Newton development tools (October 2001 )

came across this: FTP directory /developer/Newton_Development/ at ftp.apple.com...

· iPod, or, YetAnotherMP3Player ()

Apple misses again....

· Isn't it cold in Antarctica around this time of year? (April 2001 )

This is where I'd end up if I dug my way through the center of the earth......

· Scientists unveil first global earthquake hazard map (April 2001 )

Scientists unveil first global earthquake hazard mapIt took more than 500 scientists and seven years of research, but the first global earthquake hazard map is now complete. How come it took seven whole years? Well, for starters, the scientists had to contend with forces much greater than earthquakes. Try politics....