It has come to my attention that I may, in fact, have terrible taste in movies. I thought that I may have decent taste, but I do know that I set the bar for ‘acceptable’ pretty low.
This came up when I attempted to share the news with a number of people that the trailer for Underworld: Evolution is now online. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one (vampires, werewolves, guns, some story, […]
Internet Dependence (not to be confused with Internet Addiction) is something I’ve seen growing over the last few years, and I’m somewhat unsure what I think about it.
When I look back to my days in high school and early into university, getting onto the internet was a big deal. You had to make sure nobody was on the phone (or was expecting a call) and go through the whole dial-in, busy signal, retry, etc. until you finally got […]
Now, before anybody goes off on me for having a big head or anything, I don’t claim to be a genius, solitary or otherwise–I just think I happen to share a few traits with this unique group of people.
The Solitary Genius is a person who Victor Skowronski talked about in an IEEE Computer article (“Do Agile Methods Marginalize Problem Solvers?”, Oct. 2004) and then again to respond to people who took issue with the first article in this […]
Well, not really, but it’s the mildy funny joke I’ve been putting forward.
I’ve finished work. Wow, that’s a big statement. It represents one of the biggest decisions I’ve ever had to make, and ends another chapter of my life. But with this ending comes a new beginning as a grad student.
So what have I been doing with my newfound free time? Nothing terribly exciting. I spent the weekend building a patio deck–not your traditional ‘good time’ but it was social, […]
When I wrote my last post, I had intended for the word “defenses” to be a link to a page about sunscreen, etc. but I couldn’t find one I thought would make a good link. Instead I stumbled on a song I hadn’t heard in years that I’m glad I found again.
The lyrics to said song were taken word-for-word out a column in the Chicago Tribune by Mary Schmich. It’s been interesting to go […]
Yesterday, me and that bright ball in the sky had it out again. I regret to inform you that the ball showed no weakness, and I sustained heavy damage. Next time, I’ll have to bring better defenses (SPF15 or 30).
I’ve never been a big Apple fan, nor have I been an Apple hater, but after my iPod experiences last night, I want to vent a little.
Ever since the first iMacs were unveiled, I was convinced that Apple had finally gone totally ‘form before function’, ’style before substance’, etc. They’re more about looking cool than working well. This has also been demonstrated by the fact that the powerbooks don’t have a link light on their RJ-45 […]
Yesterday I handed in my resignation at work. As of August 26th, 2005 I will no longer be a Verafin employee, for I am starting grad school in September.
I had been thinking about getting my M. Eng for some time, and started looking in to it in Feburary. Yesterday everything was finally confirmed (everything but the official acceptance from the university), and in September I go back to MUN. I’m going to be working with
Well, I’ve spent the last couple of hours trying to investigate a break-in on my home server.
I had noticed that all of a sudden I was getting a lot (like 20 a minute) of ‘undeliverable mail’ errors in my inbox. I looked at one and saw that it was an eBay phishing scam, and the mail was originating from my server!
So I logged in to the server and saw an account active that would never normally […]
Everyone’s been asked the question ‘what do you do?’, I’ve been thinking about the right answer to it lately. I could say that I’m a computer or software engineer, but that’s not right because you can’t claim the term ‘engineer’ unless you’re a P.Eng. So, ’software developer’, or ’software designer’ seems to be what I can claim.
After I had thought that I had my conclusion, I began to think about it again. The terms above describe my job, but is […]
