So I’ve got this cramp… more like a pinched nerve… some kind of sciatic weirdness that’s arisen over the last 24 or so hours that’s making me more than a little crazy, and I’m hoping like hell that it resolves in the next few days before the planting season starts. Between now and then [...]

I’m nearly there - only 1.5 hours away from being able to focus all of my energy on beer and getting ready to leave this city.
No more MacLaren for this guy! Nuh-unh!!!

I’m officially reaching the ‘point of intense stress’ concerning my preparations for this trip; my job ends tomorrow, I’m off for the coast in 13 days, my life is still not even remotely packed up, I need to file my taxes, get more prescriptions filled, ship the touring bikes out west, finish building two bikes, [...]

I’m sticking this one in mechanics, because it’s an inherently mechanical bit of computing design. So apparently my new iBook’s got a motion sensor in it that parks the hard drive’s read head if the laptop gets dropped or jarred.
Someone’s tapped into this, and now, on my desktop, there now sits a [...]

So yeah - this damned thing is fairly cool so far - I can even post to my blog from the ‘dashboard’.
Not bad…. not bad…. I may yet need to eat my words about osx.

I just got a f’n iBook.  After all of my bellyaching, I had to admit that these things are just too small and tough not to consider one as a small-format replacement to the VAIO bohoemoth that I sold earlier this afternoon.
So here I go… into uncharted macintardation for the second time in my life.
Wish [...]

All is good, freedom from job is drawing nigh, soon the trees, the girl, the sea, the woods.
Right now the hectic juggling of tasks, disownment by parents, the booze, the chest-cold, the anxiety of picking up, leaving town again.
3 weeks and counting. What gets done, and what falls through the cracks this time around?
Toronto’s been [...]

I have learned tonight that the phrases ‘the devil is in the details’ and ’syntax is god’ are totally interchangeable - it’s amazing how after nearly a decade of doing dev work, and after several hundred hours of building a robust application, the tiniest little syntactic disagreement can bring the whole thing to it’s knees.
An [...]

I’ve been known to make a bet or two in my life before I’d actually thought it all the way through. Case in point: I bet Tim that I could fool him into thinking I was a man, for 5 minutes in a public place. Me… a man. Yes. OK… surRrrRe…
So I set to it, [...]

There’s been a bit of controversy in the British media of late dealing with the alleged publishing of private diaries kept by Prince Charles concerning his apparent disdain for the oppressive tendencies of the “Chinese regime”.
I’ve got to say that despite my ability to see how the revelation of these personal sentiments are potentially counterproductive [...]