For a while I’ve had this Calgary Traffic page that brings together live web cam images from the city’s public traffic website. I didn’t really like that I couldn’t see all the cameras from the view they give, so I whipped up a page to do it for me.. Anyway, I just updated the page as I found they’ve since added …

Photos from Grandma Smith's 100th Birthday Shindig! For those in the know, my mother’s mother has just officially turned 100! **This woman is one of the most impressive and interesting people I know. ** A master-knitter amongst far too many more things to enumerate, she’s traveled quite the path thus far. Everyone on …

Check out some more photos here. Ding, I just hit “level 27”.. Well, here we’ve yet another year past. You know, when I was about 20, I decided that 25 would be an amazing year for me. I thought I’d be done school and would have torn in to some great work by then. As it turned out, 25 was a good year, but nothing like …

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 …

Previous Dawning.ca Layout I’ve just spent a few hours re-designing the layout of Dawning.ca. The old one served me very well and I really liked it. I had heavily modified the previous theme to work for me and work it did. I may tap it some time in the future as a backup… As you can see to the right, the new style is …

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 …

Well, it may have been 7 years ago now, but I was cruising through my files and came across this old video.. I don’t really know who recorded the original footage, but I decided to clean it up a bit and put it out there, after all, there’s little point having this video if it’s not shared! So, here it is.. I hope many …