Second Cup Wifi

Canada’s second favourite coffee house, Second Cup, has rolled out wireless internet access at these locations. It is free until the end of the month.

Jetta TDI fuel consumption update

I have updated my stats page for the fuel consumption data of my VW Jetta TDI. As you can seen in the graph, the consumption rate has been steadily decreasing over the first 4 months of operation, and 11200km! From my research the rate will continue to get better for at least […]

Palliative Care Info

Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto has recently launched a website, Caring to the end of life, to help palliative care patients and their caregivers helpful information during the diffcult period. The site seems to be only a few weeks old, with some sections pending but informative none the less.

Every Geek Loves OS X

Even the ones at Google. Check out Google X. At the bottom is “Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you.”
Update:Seem like with all press, Google pulled the site. The site did a OS X Dock magnification effect on the various icons.
But check out the rest of the cool […]

Software Configuration Management Seminar

For my seminar course on Software Design, I did a talk on Software Configuration Management. Here are my slides and reference docs.
I discussed SCM from the management persepective for the most part, but included some theoretical ideas when discussing the various tools to highlight benefits or drawbacks of them.
I did the presentation using Keynote […]

A pause to thank

The memorial service for the 4 fallen Mounties has begun, you can watch on any of the Canadian national channels. Please take a few moments to think about what the police force does for us, and the potential harm they face daily.
The images of the thousands of officers in the Butterdome in Edmonton standing […]

How far?

Many bloggers provided a lot of person details of their lives to the world (wide web) through this revolution in personal publishing called weblogs. But how far should you go? There are a number of security reasons (identity theft, etc.), but I mean in social terms.
GapingVoid has a satirical look at it in […]

Mt. St. Helens Erupts

At 17:30 PST Mt. St. Helens began to erupt, that was 25 minutes ago. If you recall my webcam posting, it has a link to a webcam of the volcano. The images on CBC are awesome, but check out the webcam… the side wall of the crater is now gone and the […]

Hockey is back on CBC

Zed is showing Toronto vs. Vancouver right now! The Leafs and Canucks are tied 2-2 after the first period. Mind you it is EA’s NHL 2005 video game begin played, but it looks great. I’d rather watch this! I must say ea had done a great job with the latest version, […]

On a RRRoll

Tim Horton’s, Canada’s favourate coffee shop, started its annual marketing event RRRoll up the Rim to Win. Yesterday I bought my usual XL black coffee at Lawerence and Curlew on my way to Hamilton. When I got there i rrroled up a free coffee. Score, coffee for class. At the end […]