\t- I love coffee so friggin’ much! # \t- Golden Boy Fish Sauce http://twitpic.com/d8oze #ftw #hilarious # \t- Goram football games suck for those who live near stadiums #yyc # \t- Wow, what a beautiful scene: http://tr.im/w25G #flickr #photography #earth # \t- [URL Fixed!] PCB Etching Progress …

HappyThawts Transferred Toner Well, a few of us Protospacers met up and worked out some more home-made cheap Printed Circuit Board progress.. Vast thanks to the help of my esteemed friend HappyThawts, we finally got out a board of usable quality! Woot! We used a single sided Arduino pattern I found (saved me some seri …

I think it’s time again that I re-plug my free little “Shit Talker Phoenix” program I’ve written for OSX. As you can see from the screenshot, it’s a window saturated with a mess of buttons. Each of these buttons are linked in to a speech synthesis engine, so when you press a button, the computer speaks whatever’s on …

I just got back from my latest installment of Bluegrass music at the Blueberry Bluegrass music festival in Stony Plain, Alberta. I’ve gone to 4 such festivals now and as much as it’s a little heavy on the “country music” side for my tastes there’s a few factors that keep bringing me back. As such, I’ve decided it’s …

So in doing my typical rounds I’ve come across the greatest thing since Wordpress, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Flickr combined - and by “since” then, I mean, if there’s even been such an awesome combo of tools before… I’ve setup a new sub-domain for dawning.ca) - this is http://stream.dawning.ca - this URL points to …

My very first PCB Well, with the priceless aid of my dear friend HappyThawts, I’ve managed to produce my first home-made Printed Circuit Board! How it went There were a bunch of weird issues that came up in making it and thus it’s not all that ideal, though I could hack it to work. The main challenge was that my …

Put Simply Here’s the anti-epic tale of my distinct efforts to improve Microsoft Pusher Internet Explorer. Why would I want to improve IE? Well, I don’t really, but a sad number of users on the net don’t yet know any better. It seems clear to me that Microsoft’s selection of what web standards to implement (not the …

Well I’ve been home from Toor Camp 2009 for a week now and I’m feeling it’s about time to post my personal review of all of this. In Summary \t- **In Short: **It was awesome \t- **In slightly less-short: **It was rough in terms of heat, closed silo and drama \t- **The Bottom Line: **I’ll be going next year \t- Photos …

Howdy all, if you some how haven’t heard yet, Firefox 3.5 is out. It boasts a pile of cool new features and performance improvements over previous versions. Now, go get it!

The Mission To run an Apache server (on Windows) on the same machine that was already hosting IIS. The Strategy The plan was to alter each virtual host defined in IIS to not bind to the typical HTTP/HTTPS ports (80 & 443), but instead have it use arbitrary ports (was to be 8080 & 4433). With that in place, I could …