Just last week, I was locked in a life and death battle with my Internet server for several days. During that time, my connection to the outside world was cut off. Here’s what happened. About week ago (it was a Friday) Michelle noticed a message on my workstation saying that “a network cable has been …
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Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent …
As a follow-up to my recent entry, there are now several public sites being published that are soliciting a boycott of HD – at least until AACS is de-coupled from the technology. Two of these are Boycott HD (although it’s not much more than just a statement by the owner at this point), and the …
The buttons on the left-hand side of this page will now work no matter what portion of them you’ve moused over. (It used to be that you had to actually click on the link text itself. Now you can click anywhere on the button.) I also fixed a minor problem where, on hovering over the …
There’s a next generation of DVD that’s coming out. Actually there are two competing technologies: Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. Both of these seek to do for the DVD what high definition broadcasts have done for regular TV – dramatically increase the resolution of video, thereby producing far sharper pictures. In theory, there’s nothing wrong with this …
The last part of 2005 was a little stressful for me work-wise, but it’s all sorted itself out in the end. I’m not going to go into the details, except to say that there were certain things happening with resources at work that shouldn’t have been happening, and it ended up causing a lot of …
I just updated Movable Type to the latest current version (3.2). I did this because I’d received some spam comments, had gone to “de-spam” them, and discovered that the old MT-Blacklist spam plugin was no longer fully working. (It had blocked the comments, but wouldn’t let me add the posters into my blacklist.) In reading …
Michelle and I already know about a couple of the Christmas presents we’re getting each other. For years now the chain on my MedicAlert bracelet has been broken. I’ve refused to get a new bracelet, because I don’t like the look of the faceplate that they’re making now. Instead, I’ve been wanting to get a …
The whole “fall of the Ontario government” thing is just ridiculous. Does anybody seriously think that any opposition party wouldn’t immediately try for a vote of non-confidence if they thought they could get away with it? The only thing that caused it to happen this time is the series of coincidences that made all of …
Okay, so once again I’m behind in posting here. It was a couple of weeks ago that my company, VMware, sent me on a business trip to VMworld, our annual software convention. This year it took place in Las Vegas. Most people would jump at the chance to be sent to Vegas on their company’s …