the flying squirrel

Warning: There’s a spoiler in here for those who haven’t been downloading Doctor Who lately, or who haven’t been following third season casting announcements. I expect most of my readership either knows what’s going on or doesn’t care. A couple times in the new series, the Doctor’s dropped hints about his family. No detail, just [...]

It’s rare that I get home before sundown these days, and I decided to take up the opportunity to mow the front lawn while I had daylight and it wouldn’t piss off the neighbours. When I was driving in, I narrowly avoided running down a neighbour kid who was tooling around the roads on his [...]

There’s something deeply weird about Corel’s online store. I’ve used Paint Shop Pro for ages. I’ve bought every version that comes out since version 7. Upgrades are usually pretty cheap, and the new versions have added useful stuff. Corel bought Jasc, the company that makes PSP (they had the acronym first), a couple years ago. [...]

I spent the weekend in Ottawa for a friend’s wedding. That was pretty wonderful. I’m a big fan of weddings, and this was the first one I’d been to for friends (surprisingly, it’s taken this long). That’s so much cooler than extended family sorts of weddings. Not that I don’t like my family… Weddings are [...]