This version of the plugin is compiled using Google Web Toolkit version 1.7. Along with a small fix to nested PRE within DIV tags, this upgrade of the framework should fix the problems encountered with closed boards under Internet Explorer 8, as well as any other issues specific to that browser that may have been [...] » Read more

Picture from my new camera, a Canon EOS 40 DSLR. Especially with the image stabilizing lens, it’s a huge step up in low light quality from my old point and shoot digital; and so much more convenient than film. Especially after my roll of Leica-shot from London came out blank. This is the first Christmas for [...] » Read more

Ala Very Short Stories, from Wired. My feeble attempts, which seem mostly like Philip K. Dick writing The Onion headlines. Tomorrow isn’t the utopia we expected. Righteous man framed. Evil clone blamed. Sentient robot weeps before murdering creator. FTL proven to cause mass psychosis. Bumbling robot sidekick reprogrammed into tyrant. Aliens ponder Earth genocide, AETP * protests. Time traveller spoils story for [...] » Read more

The first time I poked around in Wikipedia, which was back in September of 2001, I started the article on violas. It looked like this. It seemed to fit in just fine back then. I didn’t think much of Wikipedia as a reference work at the time and moved on to other [...] » Read more

My Cingular wireless contract was up and I decided to switch over to Sprint – somewhat ironic as Sprint Canada sent a debt collector after my mom many years ago after signing her up for long distance without her approval. There was a snafu [...] » Read more

Contractors finished up their work today and here’s the result. (Sorry about the crappy pictures. My camera doesn’t like taking pictures of shiny white surfaces, had to fiddle quite a bit in Photoshop.) Fairly happy with their job. A few corners were cut, the tile offset on the center wall isn’t [...] » Read more

Tub and tile surround ripped out today. The water damage wasn’t as bad as I’d feared, even though it looks like some previous owner had indeed tiled directly on top of the plaster and paint – no water proof backing board. Looking closely at the layers of paint it seems the [...] » Read more

A week after returning from L.A. by way of Reno and Vegas (unplanned), I had to take a day off from work due to what seemed like stress induced illness. Fortuitously, that same weekend I was able to go skiing at Sierra-at-Tahoe with Susan. Stress symptoms gone! The very idea of skiing has some [...] » Read more

On Canadian headlines, theft of a beer truck outranks theft of famous artwork. Roz, at Timmy Ho’s yesterday, contemplating her third donut and reflecting on conversations from the previous evening’s family dinner: “Mom should just give up and say that her children’s only notable accomplishments include being able to eat a dozen donuts [...] » Read more

Me, on the bus heading home after dinner with family, ABBA blaring from my shiny new iPod; a man, at the bus stop by Denny Park, wearing a jean jacket with the words “DISCO SUCKS” emblazoned on the back. I’d like to claim that we looked daggers at each other, but he never turned [...] » Read more