I am living on the edge. A risk-taker. Occasionally, I even slip over to the wild side.
I don’t back up my computer very often.
As in, hardly ever. I think I remember doing it about 3 or 4 years ago. Maybe. Of course, that was my previous laptop.
This is what I need. I need […]

Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software and Fogbugz fame is doing a cool project with a bunch of summer interns.
He hired 4 summer interns - software developers - and told them to create a 1.0 project. Over 800 students applied for the 4 jobs. Check out the blog of the guys who made the […]

OK.
You go to elementary school. Then middle, high, and you enter university. You get a bachelor’s degree, and then, amazingly not having had enough of school yet, you go get a master’s degree.
Now you’re closer to 30 than you are to 20, you’re just about as educated as education can educate you. You might think […]

After much pain, agony, gnashing of teeth, and assorted other afflictions, Teresa (my wife) and I have finally launched our corporation: sparkplug9.
(Don’t expect to see much there at that site - the old saw about the cobbler’s children having no shoes is in full effect!)
sparkplug9 is a corporation that we set up primarily to manage […]

Well, Mac OS X Tiger just crashed for me for the first time in about of month of heavy usage:

Yummy kernel traps and panics … to see what I sent Apple, click to read more ….

I’ve been enjoying Gaping Void for perhaps a year or so now. Hugh Mcleod, who blogs there, is an adman-by-day, disaffected-business-card-artist-by-night kind of guy, and his art is pretty cool, though often rather crude.
But the quality of his writing, which is what I really was going to the site for, has tailed off dramatically. What […]

Bloggers and webpundits are abuzz with rumor, innuendo, and occasional personal testimonies all to the effect that Steve Jobs’ pre-announcing the shift to Intel chips is going to cause an Osborne effect … effectively killing sales of existing Apple products.
I say nonsense.
I have been planning an iMac G5 purchase for some time now to replace […]

I think that it’s fairly obvious that in the United States, justice is for sale.

If you’re using OS X Tiger and you’re using Wordpress for your blog, you need this.

It’s a Dashboard widget that posts to your blog. I downloaded it about 2 minutes ago, and I’m writing this post with it. Very cool, very easy, very quick.
Some things obviously could be added, like spellchecking, multiple categories, etc. etc. […]

Nocturne for a Dangerous Man is Marc Matz’s first novel, and it is an absolute smash home run. Wow.
It’s not quite science fiction, not quite murder mystery, not quite spy adventure, but some mixture of them all, with a healthy dose of philosophy, culture, and music thrown in.
(Anti)hero Gavilan Robie is dashing and performs requisite […]

My daughter Gabrielle turned 9 today …
Check out the amazing treasure chest cake that Teresa baked for her:

Gabrielle’s on the left, of course. Ethan (5) is in the middle. He’s barely visible but happy.
Aidan (2), on the other hand, appears to be bored by the proceedings, and is simply waiting out the tiresome interval […]

It’s not often enough that I take the camera in hand and just have fun … but I did last night.
Here are Gabrielle’s “golden flowers” for her “golden birthday.” (She turned 9 today, June the 9th, and that happy confluence of birth date and age is apparently a golden birthday.)

And here’s a really really really […]

Put down that cookie. Don’t buy those chips.
Mummy knows what you eat at school . . .
Sheesh, maybe it’s just a Canadian thing, but whatever happened to just bringing your lunch in a brown paper bag?

I use Apple’s iCal a fair bit, and generally speaking, it gets the calendar-and-scheduling job done with a minimum of fuss, a maximum of style, and a not unreasonable degree of functionality.
But there’s one thing - and, like usual, it’s one of the small things - that really bugs the heck out of me. iCal […]

This is my son Aidan. He’s got carrots in his mouth, hands on his head, and mischief on his mind: