the flying squirrel

I thought maybe Twitter may have obviated my need for bullet posts, but I like writing them, so you may just have to keep putting up with them. It’s lazy writing, but sometimes I have stuff to say and can’t be bothered to compose paragraphs. Sorry. Happy Easter! A co-worker is one of the minds [...]

My poor, neglected blog. Don’t have time for a proper update, but for ages I’ve been meaning to point out that I’m now a contributor to the Waterloo Wellington Bloggers’ Association group blog. I haven’t figured out how or if I’m going to do cross-posts, but I’ve posted a few things about local stuff. I’ve [...]

I should leave a quick note to acknowledge that yes, the blog is back. I don’t have time right now to write anything more substantial than that. I managed to kill another motherboard. Somehow. I’m a little bit annoyed that this motherboard wasn’t a crappy old one I got for free. It was supposed to [...]

I was doing pretty well up until the last week too… Ah well, maybe next year. Actually, I kinda want to try WriMo again next year. We’ll see what’s going on with stuff, I guess. What it came down to, basically, was the stuff I was spending most of my time thinking about is stuff [...]

I was mentioning to Matt very late at Denny’s in Belleville that Google wasn’t giving my blog a whole lot of love. I’d supposed that was probably because nothing actually links to it, but he suggested that I try Google Webmaster Tools and see if there’s a problem with the crawler. (Matt’s generally more up [...]

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 [...]

I’m going to gracefully bow out of NaNoWriMo this year. Much as I like the idea (I even bought the book last year!), I know I don’t have a hope of getting anywhere near the word count. I kinda want to do something, though. NaBloPoMo is a little bit more my speed this year–just post [...]

My server died. I didn’t really expect the site to be down that long. To my three (or perhaps four) readers, I apologize. I built this thing to be easy to rebuild, but I guess when you start messing around with the fatal combination of Linux hardware support and VMWare, all bets are off. I’m [...]

I had cause to go flipping through the archives of my old blog. It kinda got me thinking about what I’m trying to do with the new one. With this blog, I’d wanted to start producing what I’d hoped would be my public face to the world. This would (theoretically) be the first thing people [...]

I’m slacking off on the blog again. There’s a bunch of stuff I want to write about. Programming, project management, copyright reform, podcasts, books, raspberries, cedar hedges, yard maintenance, video games, music, Doctor Who, anime, food, urban planning, alternative energy, politics (ugh!), home decorating… Lots! My brain’s just not finding one digestably-sized chunk of a [...]