Archive for June, 2004

wedding bells…

Tomorrow, Sandy and I are getting married. That’s a really bad photo of our wedding rings. They were designed by my sister and made by an artist here in Toronto. If I’ve been incommunicado as of late, well, this is why 🙂 After the wedding we’ll be jetting off for two weeks of sun and […]

Sculpture Garden, south entrance

Click image for original 3MP version. Took this this morning on my walk to work. The shadows just seemed right.

trying… to… get… time

wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding wedding. That’s what’s going on. The preparations are going fairly smoothly though. Right now, installing Java on Manrake 9.2 is pissing me off (why are you coredumping! ARRGH!) as well as Mozilla 1.6 (no, I didn’t double click, don’t open 15 messages in separate windows now, […]

via MetaFilter: The Two Things about everything. A pretty simple concept that every profession, activity, whatever, only has two things you need to know. Everything else is an extension of those two things.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick any two – the essential mantra of any software engineer.

on the eMate front…

I didn’t really write about this yet, but two weeks ago we got two Apple eMate 300s. They were quite a steal so I couldn’t pass them up. The eMate makes a great little word processing machine, and is quite usable with the memory upgrade. Sandy’s came with one already installed and I got one […]

It’s been a little while. First things first, today (or tomorrow?) marks exactly one year since I started work at Maptuit. It’s been quite a ride with a little company but I’m looking forward to the future. Secondly, we finally got the garden planted. I’d be a dead man if I didn’t come out and […]