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Confessions of a Car Salesman – this does NOT make me want to buy a car.

I get tons of ideas. Mostly for software, web services, and the like. It’s kind of like I’m always thinking about how things can be improved, or what I want my computers to do and how to make it happen. The vast majority of these things never get done, because I forget them or I […]

WSJ.com – For His Sick Kids, a Father Struggled to Develop a Cure: Heartbreaking story of a father who quit his job and started his own biotech company in order to find a cure for his children’s fatal disease.

This is Felix, our latest addition. I totally can’t remember if I’ve posted a photo of him before, so here it is. Felix is a bit of a special cat. He is a polydactyl cat, meaning that he has extra toes on his feed. In his case, he has two extra toes on his left […]

Super Regis Roving Robotic WebCam – drive this guy’s completely wireless robot (with camera) around his office.

The above graph (click for full-size) shows Ontario’s current power demand (from The IMO) and available supply (from stories at The Toronto Star). I’m missing some numbers from yesterday and today, hence there’s a gap. This will update every hour.

as you likely already know, we power-hungry North-Easters sent ourselves spiraling into a blackout on Thursday. I was at work when it happened. At first we thought we had just tripped a local breaker, but then the UPSes in the nearby machine room began their bleeping chorus. It took about an hour an a half […]

Sculptures in the window of the King George Hotel, King St, Toronto.

LEGO 7130 Star Wars Snowspeeder and LEGO 3408 Soccer Super Sport Coverage. New in box.

…when you try to brew a pot of coffee but forget to put the coffee in. sigh…