You can blame my absence on the blackout. Although, really, we only lost power here for about 5 hours – and it’s been four days now since I’ve posted anything. It’s surprisingly hard to come up with something to say every day, especially when nothing really noteworthy is going on. You wouldn’t think it would …
I had the dubious honour of being one of the many people in Ontario and New York State, and many other parts of the US, to be hit by the biggest blackout in history. As annoying as it was, it didn’t really panic me. In a bizarre way, things like this almost always end up …
Have you ever discovered a picture of something on your computer and wondered where it came from? How about stumbling onto a drawing on the Net somewhere, but outside of any context that would let you know who drew it? Have you been frustrated that there’s no search engine like Google (which lets you type …
I have one of those Xerox “WorkCentre” printers that’s a printer, copier, and scanner, all in one. Ever since I got it, I’ve been fighting with the buggy scanning driver that’s my only option. This morning I got hit by it again. What happens is that it will start to scan – then simply stop. …
This is a belated update on the situation with that classified ad I mentioned last week. So as not to disparage the local paper too much (although it does deserve at least a little bit of healthy chastisement for various issues) I have to say that that missing ad was run after all, both in …
I just got my first public comment to Errant Musings – if it weren’t so late, and I hadn’t already brushed my teeth, I’d be breaking something out to drink. I’ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine the location of the comment. (Also, while I love Michelle, and hers was the …
I just discovered that my Subject: blacklist filter wasn’t working properly – a silly typo was preventing the check from happening. I’ve made the appropriate change. Maybe this is why Michelle has been recently seeing more spam than normal? (Me too, now that I think of it…) I’ve also slightly increased the tolerance of the …
This week I’m going to start working more full time on designing a Web site for J.J. Orr Jewellery. I’ll need to create a database for certain items and link the data into Web based forms via PHP scripts. This is simple enough, and I have all of the background knowledge, but I’ve never actually …
…at least for a while. Another round of system updates to my Linux server and another round of things that broke. I soon managed to fix most of these, but some others went undetected for a while. Once pointed out, however, they too got corrected. (After I spent a little while wondering how in the …
Up until a few days ago I used to moderate just the Mozilla Builds section of the MozillaZine Forums. Due to some recent reorganization and, I suppose, my contributions and good track record there, I received an email telling me that I’d been made a member of the “Uber Moderators” group. (I know what you’re …