I had an inspiration to create a less-personal (but still personal) tech-oriented blog, kinda a Scoble-like thing, but with more of an Alan-esque twist. Basically this, but without the random long posts about things that no one but me cares about 🙂 Though about something like techno blog, techno geek blog, geek blog, something like […]
Searching for Domain Names Read Post »
Seeing Paul’s post on Microsoft’s live.com webapp offerings prompted me to pen some quick thoughts on something related to this that I came across a bit ago. I read about the new live.com webapps and figured I’d give them a try (hear something about it on a blog or podcast or something). Going to get.live.com
Thoughts on Microsoft’s Webapps at Live.com Read Post »
Dear Shaw….. provider of both home internet and internet to the main feed at work. Why did you choose my week on call to decide to do things?
Anyone else feeling completely apathetic about Halloween this year? I honestly couldn’t care less about it, and was considing hiding in the basement with all the lights out and pretending I wasn’t home tomorrow night. Or better, go out somewhere so I didn’t have to pretend to be home. Last year the number of kids
Gah. Today is my first day of a week on call for work. That means anything at the fairly large ISP (by Vancouver standards anyway, feel free to mock me if you live in Silicon Valley) goes wrong that’s customer affecting, 24/7 for the next 7 days, I’m the one with The Phone Number forwarded
First Day of First Week On Call Read Post »
A couple of shots from a couple of years ago that I found and felt worthy of posting.
Random Aquarium Pictures Read Post »
Based on the weather it’s been fall for a while now, so things are fairly “slump-y”. Other than moving furniture around in the office a bit, and the daily grind to and from work, over and over again, life is stunningly, boringly, normal in all respects. I’ve still got contract work that comes, gets done,
Welcome to Autumn Read Post »
Based on the weather it’s been fall for a while now, so things are fairly “slump-y”. Other than moving furniture around in the office a bit, and the daily grind to and from work, over and over again, life is stunningly, boringly, normal in all respects. I’ve still got contract work that comes, gets done,
Welcome to Autumn Read Post »
Today Enemy Territory: Quake Wars was released, and I was meeting an old buddy from high school after work in Gastown, so I figured I?d pick it up. I have been playing on the beta test, and then the public beta, and enjoying it quite a bit, so I figured that I?d support iD and
Adventures in EB Games Read Post »
Couple of quick things…. Some funky story lines… there seem to be about 30 simultaneous storylines. Well, maybe not that many, but way more (I think) than season 1. They have the potential to try to do too much with all the characters at once. Inconsistencies with Hiro’s abilities. He is stuck in the past,
Some Complaints about Heroes Season 2, Episode 2 Read Post »