I’ve had a lot of things go on that have made me forget about updates here for a while. We sold our condo and bought a house, started renovations on the house which still aren’t fixed, spent over 3 weeks on a business trip in India, my computer died on me (twice) and had to …
For several years, I was addicted to a computer game called The Witcher. It was a great first person fantasy game with real time combat, good puzzles, and a very good, and in depth, virtual world that lent itself to exploration and character interaction. Michelle would come into the study and say, “Oh, Fabio,” because …
That’s a saying that Michelle likes to use a lot. We’ve had some debates over it in the past and, ironically, her boss, Reverend Dr. Derek Anderson, takes my side; he disagrees with the saying just as I do (although I haven’t sat down to talk with him about his reasons for doing so). The …
There’s a new brewery that’s opened up in Toronto: Spearhead Brewery. It’s always good when we get more variety. Even more impressive is the number of pubs that will be serving it (I assume) on tap. In addition to some of our favourites, C’est What? and “The Academy Of Spherical Arts, there’s a lengthy list …
I’ve finished converting everything on this site to WordPress. In general, I’m quite pleased with the transition process and I believe that I’ve made everything look as close to the old site as possible. The one thing that’s missing, that I couldn’t resolve technically, was the use of newspaper columns for my articles. When I …
This is a very quick post to say that I’ve now switched from Moveable Type to WordPress. I like working with WordPress a lot more, however there’s an extensive amount of work I need to do on the site as a whole to re-integrate everything and “skin” it to look like it did before. As …
I’ve recently discovered (because I never comment on my own blog entries) that comments are no longer working. Instead, when trying to add a comment, I get a nice error message that doesn’t tell me anything. The software my blog is currently using is Moveable Type. I’ve been using this since version 3.x was released, …
I just read a news story about some people who showed up for Halloween as a KKK member and one of his victims (somebody dressed up in “black face”). They showed up at an event at the Campbellford branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, kicking off a firestorm of protest and indignation over the blatant …
I recently decided that I’d investigate getting a new keyboard for home and work. Up until then I’d been using a Microsoft Natural keyboard for a few years and had quite enjoyed it. For any touch-typist, it makes things easier and reduces strain on your wrists – but I suspected that there were still better …
After months of work again, on and off, I’ve got the new server online. For all that I wish I hadn’t lost it all earlier, I actually did learn some new things rebuilding it from scratch once more. In the process, I also had a look at the latest Horde / Imp for a Web-based …