the flying squirrel

I’ve found that the two most useful benefits of having this thing are (mostly) that I can start to solidify ideas in my own head, possibly for later reference, and (tangentially) that it can spur conversation with friends, either online or in real life. Both are rather rewarding. A lot of times, I come across [...]

Presqu’ile Provincial Park is one of my favourite places. My mom had me drive out there to Brighton today for an art and craft show and sale. And while I’m not a huge fan of that sort of thing, it was actually a rather nice craft show with reasonably-priced locally hand-made stuff (unlike the usual [...]

I’m back in Belleville. The drive back wasn’t that great. Getting onto Highway 8 was a challenge. I think people have started Christmas shopping or something. Between K-W and Toronto, it was rainy and busy and not very fun at all. So I went up on the 407. Seeing fireworks going off in the subdivisions [...]

I remember when I was a kid, just starting to get into Doctor Who and just starting to read Doctor Who Magazine regularly, that I was a bit surprised at how incredibly popular Sarah Jane Smith was among fans. People would write in about how she was so much better than any current companion. I [...]

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned before that I use Markdown for blogging. I love Markdown. It’s awesome. If I had my way, I’d use it for all my writing. <br/><br/>After spending years making web pages, I can’t be bothered writing HTML anymore. I hate WYSIWYG editors–they’re way too fiddly and distracting and it’s all too [...]

Previously on Computer and Me: Amiga I was going to do these things chronologically (more or less), but it all kind of weaves together, so there’s no reason not to jump around. Part of what prompted this series (besides needing filler for NaBloPoMo), was my rediscovering a page I wrote ten years ago about why [...]

Facebook, I gotta hand it to you. You’ve done a fine job. Everybody’s on Facebook. My mom’s on Facebook. You somehow suckered Microsoft into giving you $240M. Nightly news commentators make comments about you in their pointless banter. By all accounts, you’re on top of the world. So why do you seem so desperate? I [...]

For the record, a “day”, for NaBloPoMo purposes, begins when I wake up and ends when I go to sleep. So this counts as Sunday’s entry. I spent most of today (the parts that weren’t spent at Ellen’s, anyway) out in the back yard raking up leaves. Okay, I took plenty of breaks, and really, [...]

Rummaging through my thoughts to come up with something to write about tonight, I started to come to the conclusion that I spend way too much time thinking about products I would like to buy. A lot of this seems to be stemming from the laptop thing. That’s something I’d been thinking about for well [...]

I probably spend way too much time thinking about computers and computer-related stuff. And with the whole laptop thing, I’m maybe getting overly introspective about it. It’s NaBloPoMo, so I figure I’m allowed to indulge my nerdier tendencies. Shamus, over at Twenty Sided posted today about his personal experience with various versions of Windows and [...]