Happy Brithday Lena

Welcome to the quarter century club baby… It is only down hill from here :P
I hope you had a good time last night with everyone for dinner and Bellinis at Milestones. Then, as if we didn’t eat enough, cheesecake at Just Desserts.
I hope you enjoy all of your gifts, eventhough you knew about most of […]

Software Business Models

For a long time, I have said that the software business model of boxed merchandise is faulty based on the nature of software. Many companies without a monopoly in its market have struggled or disappeared because they continued to use this model. The monopolist has enough market control to maintain sustainable profits as […]

RFC: Software Engineering Community

Building on the SEUG discussion mailing list, is the establishment of an organization and website for Canadian Software Engineers. This organization, named Protose, (Proto: Greek for “First”, with an SE at the end) will be the SEs link to news, events, and individuals in our emerging engineering disipline.
John Kopanas has begun the requirement gathering […]

Morons and Assholes, why we need a new kind of spec

Mark Pilgram has an interesting discussion on the different types of developers, and how they deal with software specifications. Read “Why specs matter“. According to Mark, there are 3 types of developers, 2 real: Morons and Assholes, and 1 imaginary: Angels. (The 2 real are to the right of the imaginary axis, […]

Blackout Memories

Every media outlet has been profiling someone or something on one year after a blackout that put most of northeastern North America dark. In summary, strangers came together to help each other out… but that quickly faded and people are again jaded. Good energy conservation efforts ended about the same time as the […]

It’s official: I’m a fat guy

There is an advertisement for a health club that start with the phrase “You don’t wanna be a fat guy?”
Well, I am now that guy. How do I come to this conclusion? I have gained close to 30 pounds in the last year, most packed on during the last term of my undergraduate […]

Bruce Peninsula Camping Trip

In a last minute “Hey, let’s go camping this weekend!?” moment, we booked the closest public campsite available at Bruce Peninsula National Park. Bruce is at the northern point of the peninsula that is bordered by Lake Huron to the west and Georgeian Bay to the east. The park is 320 Km north […]

iHappy

So after one day of using a new G4 iBook I’m really kicking my self for not getting one when I bought my first laptop 2 years ago. It just works. Everything is where you think it would be. Looong battery life will make the bus trips to MAC bareable. Software […]