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October 2009 (1 post )
- 10/12: The UWO Alumni Gazette online (1 comment)
July 2009 (1 post )
- 07/18: Welcome to Telus, where printing is a problem (0 comments)
January 2009 (1 post )
- 01/20: Study one thing well, then branch out (1 comment)
October 2008 (1 post )
- 10/15: How the media was useless to me in this election (0 comments)
August 2008 (2 posts )
- 08/21: Three weeks with a smart ForTwo (2 comments)
- 08/21: Reflecting on my thesis (2 comments)
July 2008 (1 post )
- 07/20: A poor argument against critics (0 comments)
June 2008 (2 posts )
- 06/25: Distressing events and the mob mentality that follows them (0 comments)
- 06/23: Thesis writing is tough, but rewarding work (0 comments)
May 2008 (2 posts )
- 05/29: Employment and thesis news (2 comments)
- 05/05: Science humour (0 comments)
April 2008 (2 posts )
- 04/23: A small report on my course (1 comment)
- 04/12: End of term (0 comments)
March 2008 (6 posts )
- 03/29: Earth Hour in Hamilton: Ho-hum (2 comments)
- 03/24: Car Wash, 5 miles (probably) (0 comments)
- 03/19: Subprime primer (1 comment)
- 03/19: How’s that US election thing going? Onion-y. (0 comments)
- 03/13: I really don’t know what to say about this (0 comments)
- 03/07: We suck at multitasking (0 comments)
February 2008 (4 posts )
- 02/29: Western and tax receipts (0 comments)
- 02/28: In volatile markets, your investment plan needs a solid foundation (0 comments)
- 02/28: Jobs and the cost of commuting (1 comment)
- 02/02: Westboro insanity (0 comments)
January 2008 (4 posts )
- 01/29: Long live closed-source software (3 comments)
- 01/25: Social networks and openness (1 comment)
- 01/25: Accurate description of TV news (0 comments)
- 01/18: “Who will think of the children?” (6 comments)
December 2007 (6 posts )
- 12/23: Mini-report on our 2003 Toyota Echo (3 comments)
- 12/19: Monkeys perform arithmetic as well as college students (2 comments)
- 12/17: Damn you snow! Well, sorta… (0 comments)
- 12/08: The Golden Compass (0 comments)
- 12/06: Beauty, theories and equations (0 comments)
- 12/01: Squirrels! (0 comments)
November 2007 (10 posts )
- 11/29: Uh, what? (0 comments)
- 11/28: Does life have a meaning? (0 comments)
- 11/27: Transfering a Time Machine database to another drive (0 comments)
- 11/16: The Robert Dziekanski incident (3 comments)
- 11/12: Wireless update (1 comment)
- 11/11: I see wireless networks (1 comment)
- 11/09: Implosion research (0 comments)
- 11/09: Mister Kitty gets another mouse (0 comments)
- 11/04: More on OS X Leopard (1 comment)
- 11/04: Satisfying UI design is often illogical (1 comment)
October 2007 (12 posts )
- 10/30: Hooray for stupid applications (0 comments)
- 10/29: OS X Leopard (1 comment)
- 10/23: Response to my MP (0 comments)
- 10/15: The age of apoplexy (1 comment)
- 10/15: Mister Kitty tortures a mouse (1 comment)
- 10/12: Why I didn’t for vote for MMP, but voted for the Green Party anyway (3 comments)
- 10/11: Miscellany (0 comments)
- 10/06: Don’t bitch. Just don’t buy. (3 comments)
- 10/04: The mismeasurement of science (0 comments)
- 10/04: Insanely great and the ordinary (0 comments)
- 10/04: Western’s MyVLab (3 comments)
- 10/03: Amusing word play (1 comment)
September 2007 (10 posts )
- 09/29: A breakfast challenge for muff lovers (1 comment)
- 09/27: Why not another pint? I’m only up to 59! (0 comments)
- 09/21: Provincial Leaders Debate (0 comments)
- 09/21: 21 and over… and we mean it (0 comments)
- 09/11: “Suck it, Jesus!” (1 comment)
- 09/09: Dostoyevsky Comics (0 comments)
- 09/08: Scariest movie I’ve seen in a while (3 comments)
- 09/08: Trolls aren’t restricted to the Internet (0 comments)
- 09/06: Tory and “other theories” (0 comments)
- 09/05: Touching the iPod (0 comments)
August 2007 (11 posts )
- 08/29: YouTube for scientists (0 comments)
- 08/28: Video clips for your amusement (1 comment)
- 08/23: A pit of educational folly (1 comment)
- 08/16: Worthwhile readings on science (0 comments)
- 08/16: Wikipedia and politics? Surely you jest. (0 comments)
- 08/16: This one goes to 11 (0 comments)
- 08/13: Primus WiMAX fun (1 comment)
- 08/12: The question of speeding (0 comments)
- 08/08: Scene from a bad movie (0 comments)
- 08/08: The Rhino Party is coming back (0 comments)
- 08/04: Weeds and the “jerk socks” (1 comment)
July 2007 (4 posts )
- 07/28: Keeping Colorado Uniquely Free (0 comments)
- 07/27: Allan Maki: Just cancel the Tour de France (1 comment)
- 07/27: Where do I plug in the headphones? (1 comment)
- 07/22: The WWW is, apparently, shutting down operation (0 comments)
June 2007 (5 posts )
- 06/27: Math skill level poll (0 comments)
- 06/27: Household energy use in perspective (0 comments)
- 06/25: Something amiss here (0 comments)
- 06/25: Animal magnetism (2 comments)
- 06/13: Cutting this article in Business Week brought tears to my eyes (0 comments)
May 2007 (6 posts )
- 05/30: You had me at “office trays” (0 comments)
- 05/28: Timmy’s rage? (2 comments)
- 05/11: New blog for technically-oriented stuff (0 comments)
- 05/06: An embarrassment to Canada (0 comments)
- 05/03: Cale-doh!-nia (1 comment)
- 05/02: Social bookmarking blandness (1 comment)
April 2007 (13 posts )
- 04/25: Elastic door handle scotch tape blues (0 comments)
- 04/20: For Power’s enjoyment (1 comment)
- 04/17: Evaluating research (0 comments)
- 04/10: Student savings at the expense of grammar (5 comments)
- 04/10: Our mobile data access sucks (0 comments)
- 04/06: Some pictures at ILC (mostly tours) (1 comment)
- 04/06: The ILC post-mortum (0 comments)
- 04/05: ILC wrap-up (0 comments)
- 04/05: Another quick ILC note (0 comments)
- 04/03: Sick at ILC (2 comments)
- 04/02: ILC Monday (0 comments)
- 04/02: ILC Saturday and Sunday (0 comments)
- 04/01: Quick ILC note (2 comments)
March 2007 (12 posts )
- 03/31: Greetings from ILC 2007 (0 comments)
- 03/18: Connectedness of science publications (0 comments)
- 03/16: Too Much Information (0 comments)
- 03/16: Christopher Hitchens on Free Speech (0 comments)
- 03/16: My apartment is cold (0 comments)
- 03/07: Amen Break, the world’s most important drum loop (1 comment)
- 03/06: Prince turned my son gay! (1 comment)
- 03/06: Holy bottled water! (0 comments)
- 03/05: New Age garbage (2 comments)
- 03/03: Appreciating the design of Common Lisp (0 comments)
- 03/01: Giving Superman a bad name (0 comments)
- 03/01: Amusing FizzBuzz discussion (2 comments)
February 2007 (10 posts )
- 02/22: Sussman’s little digs at type theory and Mathematica (0 comments)
- 02/22: History based on evidence, not conjecture (2 comments)
- 02/21: Don’t want my business? Very well, then. (5 comments)
- 02/20: Building Robust Systems (1 comment)
- 02/12: Little Miss Sunshine (0 comments)
- 02/10: How to criticize programming languages (0 comments)
- 02/08: A note on appearance and the “asides” (2 comments)
- 02/06: Ted Haggard, now without the gay! (1 comment)
- 02/06: That’s a load off… (5 comments)
- 02/03: The death of computing (9 comments)
January 2007 (14 posts )
- 01/31: Wizard versus house cat (2 comments)
- 01/30: Oh boy, Power is gonna love this… (5 comments)
- 01/28: The purpose to YouTube (1 comment)
- 01/27: Pan’s Labyrinth (2 comments)
- 01/22: Cancer “cures” and big pharma (0 comments)
- 01/22: Worthwhile read on vegetarianism (1 comment)
- 01/20: Beata meets Michael Smith (0 comments)
- 01/19: Brady (1 comment)
- 01/17: Great “Delusion” quote (1 comment)
- 01/17: And I says, “Pardon?” (2 comments)
- 01/16: Science? Surely you jest… (3 comments)
- 01/05: Where art thou, Copernicus? (0 comments)
- 01/04: Talking to Americans, Australian style (1 comment)
- 01/01: Direct-to-video awesomeness (0 comments)
December 2006 (9 posts )
- 12/31: Music and the brain (0 comments)
- 12/30: Personal year in review (0 comments)
- 12/30: What Jeff (the cat) killed (0 comments)
- 12/27: Bestest post evar! (0 comments)
- 12/27: 24 Season Five (0 comments)
- 12/04: In response to “The Myth of Just Works” (3 comments)
- 12/04: Printer-friendly is not reader-friendly (1 comment)
- 12/01: Parrots – is there anything they can’t do? (0 comments)
- 12/01: Desperate or kitsch? (1 comment)
November 2006 (10 posts )
- 11/29: There’s a conference for everything… (1 comment)
- 11/20: Uhm, what? (2 comments)
- 11/19: Galactus is coming! (0 comments)
- 11/15: CNN and the Zune (2 comments)
- 11/10: Frugal computing (0 comments)
- 11/09: Will it blend? (1 comment)
- 11/04: Lots o’ spam (1 comment)
- 11/04: Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror (0 comments)
- 11/04: Switching browsers again… (0 comments)
- 11/04: How fast are the simple tests, really? (0 comments)
October 2006 (11 posts )
- 10/22: Do We Really Need Bad Reasons To Be Good? (0 comments)
- 10/19: The ACM Portal – Why am I searching here again? (0 comments)
- 10/19: Thesis progress results in burnout day (0 comments)
- 10/16: Some changes made to the blog (0 comments)
- 10/16: Watch Wally move blocks (0 comments)
- 10/15: Beating a dead horse (0 comments)
- 10/13: “That’s biotechnology, Charlie Brown!” (1 comment)
- 10/11: IEEE, why do you mock me? (1 comment)
- 10/10: Check for program updates? Sometimes. (2 comments)
- 10/04: Family Circus and Friedrich Nietzshce (0 comments)
- 10/01: MarkBook gets a failing grade (1 comment)
September 2006 (3 posts )
- 09/08: For the politically inclined… (2 comments)
- 09/04: Print versus online: an experience in reading (3 comments)
- 09/03: Lord of the Rings, on stage (2 comments)
August 2006 (4 posts )
- 08/07: “Challenging Nature”, by Lee M. Silver (3 comments)
- 08/03: Globe’s “Witness” section (0 comments)
- 08/03: Response to Inside the CBC (3 comments)
- 08/03: I’m the CEE of Casa Woz! (0 comments)
July 2006 (1 post )
- 07/14: Mini-vacation (0 comments)
June 2006 (8 posts )
- 06/30: My little słonezcko (*) (1 comment)
- 06/30: Plantar fasciitis (0 comments)
- 06/25: Reinforcing the switch to Apple (0 comments)
- 06/13: Some recently read books (2 comments)
- 06/08: Grammar mistakes that make you look stupid (3 comments)
- 06/04: Latest car vandalism victim… me! (4 comments)
- 06/02: Developers are users too (7 comments)
- 06/02: The Art of the Metaobject Protocol (0 comments)
May 2006 (3 posts )
- 05/29: For some, Netscape Communicator is apparently alive and well (0 comments)
- 05/29: New addition (0 comments)
- 05/06: Toggle plug-in capability of Safari (0 comments)
April 2006 (3 posts )
- 04/24: Documentation, continued (1 comment)
- 04/12: Looking back on “the switch” (17 comments)
- 04/03: The scourge of documentation (2 comments)
March 2006 (4 posts )
- 03/18: “Collapse”, by Jared Diamond (0 comments)
- 03/10: Updates and happenings (0 comments)
- 03/01: Letter to the registrar (0 comments)
- 03/01: Aquamacs Emacs, LispWorks Personal Edition, and SLIME (0 comments)
February 2006 (2 posts )
- 02/06: The closet sports fan emerges… and the Steelers win! (1 comment)
- 02/03: The Paradox of Choice (0 comments)
January 2006 (12 posts )
- 01/25: Considering “Stolen Continents” (0 comments)
- 01/24: My problem with politics (0 comments)
- 01/17: The academic paper everyone wants to write (0 comments)
- 01/17: Score 5, Interesting (3 comments)
- 01/15: Funky happenings at globeandmail.com (0 comments)
- 01/12: Classic WTF?-style error message (1 comment)
- 01/10: Adventures with services (0 comments)
- 01/09: Forum amusements (0 comments)
- 01/07: Why is there Ratt on my iPod? (0 comments)
- 01/03: Body Worlds 2 and the Ontario Science Centre (0 comments)
- 01/03: Bjarne Stroustrup on the “new” C++ (0 comments)
- 01/03: Happy New Year! Aim away from face. (0 comments)
December 2005 (9 posts )
- 12/31: “The Tipping Point” mini-review (0 comments)
- 12/31: Holiday happenings (0 comments)
- 12/23: Some amusing images (0 comments)
- 12/22: The happy-scrappy work update (0 comments)
- 12/22: Some site information (0 comments)
- 12/21: Music in ‘05 (0 comments)
- 12/14: Dude, who are you talkin’ to? (2 comments)
- 12/09: A week in the trenches (3 comments)
- 12/03: Early election thoughts: the proposed GST cut (1 comment)
November 2005 (6 posts )
- 11/20: Adventures in system administration (1 comment)
- 11/16: More Lisp lovin’ (5 comments)
- 11/12: The poppy and Remembrance Day (1 comment)
- 11/05: Looking for an HTML editor (3 comments)
- 11/02: Pictures from my trip out west (2 comments)
- 11/02: Lisp trick of the day (0 comments)
October 2005 (9 posts )
- 10/31: I want my Arrested Development (0 comments)
- 10/31: A new oxymoron for my lexicon (0 comments)
- 10/16: A History of Violence (0 comments)
- 10/15: Lisp Syntax Extensions And Macros, or How I Keep Falling In Love With Lisp (0 comments)
- 10/15: Car or bus? I can’t decide (0 comments)
- 10/15: More rage-inducing goodness from UWO administration (0 comments)
- 10/10: Progress in perspective (0 comments)
- 10/09: The topic of bullshit (0 comments)
- 10/04: Why I prefer dynamic typing (in Lisp) (0 comments)
September 2005 (13 posts )
- 09/27: And on the research front… (1 comment)
- 09/24: Alien vs. Predator (0 comments)
- 09/23: Beata, the font (0 comments)
- 09/21: Update on Lisps and environments (0 comments)
- 09/21: What an odd message (0 comments)
- 09/20: Lisps and environments (0 comments)
- 09/20: Dragged kicking and screaming into Java and C++ (0 comments)
- 09/16: Firefox — again (0 comments)
- 09/15: Great movie poster (0 comments)
- 09/11: Decent cronjob software for Macs (0 comments)
- 09/11: I’m an older man today… (0 comments)
- 09/02: On a lighter note… (0 comments)
- 09/02: New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina (0 comments)
August 2005 (13 posts )
- 08/31: Reflection is tricky business (0 comments)
- 08/25: Quick note on the T2202A story (0 comments)
- 08/23: “Well, it works for me!” (0 comments)
- 08/22: The registrar saga continues… (0 comments)
- 08/22: Exciting move update (0 comments)
- 08/19: Flash and fonts (0 comments)
- 08/18: High gas prices? Try long lines… (0 comments)
- 08/16: Evolution and Intelligent Design (0 comments)
- 08/15: Monkeys writing websites (0 comments)
- 08/15: Adventures in moving and the like (0 comments)
- 08/11: Making my PowerBook more productive (0 comments)
- 08/11: The personal health update (0 comments)
- 08/06: Back from my trip (0 comments)
July 2005 (8 posts )
- 07/26: Outta here (0 comments)
- 07/26: Some other stuff… (0 comments)
- 07/26: Preparing for a long car ride (0 comments)
- 07/11: The start of another move (0 comments)
- 07/04: Old programming language paper (0 comments)
- 07/04: TV and me (0 comments)
- 07/03: Typing is (still) a pain (0 comments)
- 07/02: Podcasting (0 comments)
June 2005 (9 posts )
- 06/27: Wake up screaming with the King (0 comments)
- 06/27: Sickness update (0 comments)
- 06/27: Mind boggling (0 comments)
- 06/22: Nasty cold (0 comments)
- 06/12: High profile switching (0 comments)
- 06/06: Apple and Intel (0 comments)
- 06/05: Plug-ins and web browsing (0 comments)
- 06/05: PDF oddities (0 comments)
- 06/05: Best movie (so far) this year (0 comments)
May 2005 (12 posts )
- 05/31: Safari and Acrobat 7 (0 comments)
- 05/30: Ringing in on Episode III (0 comments)
- 05/29: More a Mac fanboy, it seems (0 comments)
- 05/29: Control/format strings (0 comments)
- 05/19: Goofy fun (0 comments)
- 05/19: Some politics (0 comments)
- 05/12: The wonderful world of misc (0 comments)
- 05/10: And now, a recantation/refinement (0 comments)
- 05/09: The end of XEmacs as we know it (0 comments)
- 05/07: Mac impressions (0 comments)
- 05/07: Fickle Unix (0 comments)
- 05/06: Move to the light side (0 comments)
April 2005 (3 posts )
- 04/30: Rant-bitch-fest time (0 comments)
- 04/17: C++ Template Programming (0 comments)
- 04/04: Types and Operational Semantics (0 comments)
February 2005 (1 post )
- 02/13: Long time, no blog (0 comments)
December 2004 (3 posts )
- 12/10: This post may have come in contact with peanuts (0 comments)
- 12/01: Letter to McAfee (0 comments)
- 12/01: I don’t recall wanting a rose garden… (0 comments)
November 2004 (4 posts )
- 11/24: Regular expressions and IDEs (0 comments)
- 11/22: More on DSLs and communication (0 comments)
- 11/20: Programming as communication (0 comments)
- 11/17: On not being a vegetarian (0 comments)
October 2004 (7 posts )
- 10/21: Sports history just made (0 comments)
- 10/20: The Greatest Canadian (0 comments)
- 10/14: AMD64, Gentoo, and drivers (0 comments)
- 10/10: Text editing and programming (0 comments)
- 10/10: Email annoyance (0 comments)
- 10/01: Multiple Language Environments (0 comments)
- 10/01: Finally getting settled, DSL update (0 comments)
September 2004 (2 posts )
- 09/10: Overloading in programming languages (0 comments)
- 09/08: Moving, Careers, and DSL service (0 comments)
July 2004 (2 posts )
- 07/11: Ignorant attitudes and software bloat (0 comments)
- 07/11: Dealing with bitter disappointment (0 comments)
June 2004 (3 posts )
- 06/16: A little alarmism goes a long way (0 comments)
- 06/13: A set of recent viewings (0 comments)
- 06/05: Minor revalation about why I read what I do (0 comments)
May 2004 (4 posts )
- 05/22: Slashdot and Monsanto vs. Schmeiser (0 comments)
- 05/19: Good job, Netgear! (0 comments)
- 05/16: Experimenting with colour (0 comments)
- 05/15: The infamous first post (0 comments)