Some time ago, I reactivated my inactive Facebook account. I hate Facebook and pretty much everything it stands for. Even though I totally support social activity, I think Facebook is probably the worst example of how to not implement something. I think it encourages a belief in activity that’s mostly meaningless and superficial, and it …
When I was quite young, my family had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember well the polished oak case fastened to the wall on the lower stair landing. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I even remembered the number – 105. I was too little to reach …
Many years ago, I bought myself an all-in-one espresso machine—a Delongi Magnifca. I’ve used it all the time since to make myself café au laits. Several years after I bought it the grinder broke. I took it in and had it repaired. Just a few years ago the milk frother unit broke. I decided not …
The browser I use is SeaMonkey, which is the “original” browser from Mozilla. Although Mozilla is better known for Firefox, the two share the same code base. Because I used to be quite involved with QA and code triage work on SeaMonkey, you can still see my name “in lights” if you go to the …
An in-place upgrade to Windows 10 at work went amazingly well. But due to some short-sightedness on my part, followed by a bit of insanity on Microsoft’s part, my upgrade at home failed utterly. After two days I ended up with a clean install (Windows 8 that was then immediately upgraded to 10), and having …
Well. Two years since that last post when I said I was still alive. I’ll tell you what happened. I started playing Runescape, and it ended up taking all of my free time. When I had time to spare – I’d play it rather than post something new here. But it’s well past time that …
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 …