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Chrome for Mac

Monday, December 14th, 2009

I like Safari. I like the funky home screen, I like its integration with the rest of the Mac experience. I wasn’t planning on using Chrome. But Safari for me has been unstable. Not hugely unstable – it can go days without crashing or locking up – but it does lock up from time to […]

Combating Child Porn Online

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

The government has tabled a new law aimed at fighting child porn online in Canada. It’s apparently a big problem in Canada, but the new laws don’t really seem to accomplish anything that the existing laws didn’t already accomplish. I mean, if it’s already illegal to rob people, then do you need a new law […]

PeakSaver Thermostat

Monday, November 16th, 2009

The house we moved into is a bit of an oddball in some ways, and one of them is in the HVAC system. The original house is about 30 years old, and there was an addition built on about 10 years ago. The utility room in the original house is in a location that makes […]

Codename Proliferation

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Llano, Bobcat, Bulldozer, Clarkdale, Arrandale, Sandy Bridge, Phenom II, Fusion, Leo, Dorado, Thuban, Dragon, Pisces, Kodiak, Scorpius, Zambezi, Lynx, Velocity, Conroe, Tigris, Caspian, Danube, Champlain, Sabine, Concensus, Huron, Nile, Ontario, Brazos, Geneva, Maranello, Magny-Cours, San Marino, Lisbon, Adelaide, Interlagos, Valencia. That’s a pretty good crop, for just one article.

LiveCycle ES2

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

The Adobe Developer Connection has been updated with some info on ES2. Here’s a video by Marcel Boucher that quickly introduces ES2 to developers. If you’ve no idea what LiveCycle is, have a look.

H1N1

Monday, November 9th, 2009

So apparently my son has H1N1. Or had – he seems like he’s doing pretty well today. Saturday evening he had a high fever and was shivering and miserable; some Tylenol fixed him right up but as soon as the Tylenol would run out he’d go back to miserable. This ran through to this morning […]

China and the iPhone

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

The iPhone went on sale in China last week, but a stripped-down iPhone without WiFi. Turns out, people aren’t buying it. Surprise surprise. So often we see Chinese knock-offs of products like the iPhone whose quality is pretty seriously compromised compared to the original product. I wonder if some folks in China actually believe that […]

Drive-Through H1N1 Triage

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Here’s an interesting idea. The Brantford General Hospital is testing out a drive-through triage system for H1N1 patients. I hope I can get fries with that.

Christmas in Southern Ontario

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Halloween is past so now and Costco has had their Christmas aisle open for weeks now, so I guess it’s time to start talking about Christmas. One of the fun things about running Ottawa Events when I lived in Ottawa was finding all the events going on for the holidays and listing them. In Brantford, […]

National Blog Posting Month

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Hey, apparently it’s National Blog Posting Month. Sign me up. (This is my entry for November 1st – I’m off to a pretty lame start).