I’ve long since loathed the wide range of drinking vessels that I know react with my water. I’m already seriously irritated about the mandatory fluoridation of my drinking water. So I hardly like that drinking from a metal container tends to make my water taste metallic. Then there’s my instinctual concerns about …

My copy of 'The Guild' The Guild has been around for some time now and I’ve enjoyed watching it many times over. It’s about the woes of RL existence for a group of gamer geeks. I first noticed the main drive behind The Guild, Felicia Day, from another similarly awesome project - Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog. Aside …

Jasper, our epically sage cat left us March 24th, 2010. He sported a remarkable disposition unlike that of any other cat I’ve known. He expressed a vast range of positive emotions (with the occasional impressive act of disapproval). Jasper’s one of a kind character sets the bar for kitties everywhere and earned …

Last Saturday was the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer, particularly in this case, my calling. The day consisted of a workshops, some social gatherings, a formal ring ceremony and banquet.. It was an epically full day I’m sure to remember so long as my brain is in tact. Suffice to say, I learned a lot more about …

Hey just a fast post here.. I’ve been using sshfs on Ubuntu (meh, linux in general) for awhile as a means of securely remotely accessing my files. I’ve taken some steps to add a line to my /etc/fstab file to make this run smoothly… Though today I ran in to a really weird situation. I found that despite having a …

A Message to my fellow U of C Students…. 'PL'-this BS-'O' The other day I was sitting in class watching a prof write some notes on the chalkboard. As per usual, he navigated around a big section of the board that was boxed off with a note “PLO” (Please Leave On) written over it. The notes he wrote were compressed and …

iPad Promo Images Yesterday Apple introduced their massively anticipated iPad tablet device. For those who haven’t yet heard about it, it’s basically a hudge iPhone (that doesn’t make phone calls). The iPad is meant to unlock a “new” market segment for small computing devices that is somehow not already met by the …

\t- Ugh, having some weird connectivity problems with #Shaw right now. #yyc. Established connections are holding, new ones will sometimes work # \t- Being forced to work on my pf skills.. Can’t resume my Django fun until I solve this. Sigh. # \t- Well, that was a good #django jam session. What? stayed up all night …

\t- Ugh, having some weird connectivity problems with #Shaw right now. #yyc. Established connections are holding, new ones will sometimes work # \t- Being forced to work on my pf skills.. Can’t resume my Django fun until I solve this. Sigh. # \t- Well, that was a good #django jam session. What? stayed up all night …

\t- When I become a tycoon, my bathroom tower room will look like: http://twitti.ms/Fsd5 # \t- Well, I just refined my website redesign a ton. What you all think? https://dawning.ca) # \t- Whoops, damn automated Tweet thingys - gotta remember where my spies are. ;) # \t- Web Apps # \t- Hardware # \t- Software # \t- …