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Crappy weather! Yeeha! Thanks Earth! I shouldn’t complain, I’ve been neglecting to water some newly seeded areas in the backyard.

"easy to assemble" being… assembled!, originally uploaded by chuma_. I was hoping that the new sculpture being installed at the Toronto Sculpture Garden would be something nice and big this time around, and it looks like I was right! Took this photo minutes ago of the frame of the sculpture being assembled by a welder […]

My new friend the Bell lineman came by yesterday and found the problem. After over a month of insisting that I had a problem with the Bell wires, guess what – the problem was with the Bell wires! He swapped my line over to a spare set – hearing that nice, clear, non-fuzzy tone on […]

We’re still – still! – having DSL issues. But I hope that finally we’re going to get some relief. Let’s start at the beginning: Back in February we had a new “dry” DSL line (let’s call it line #2) setup alongside our existing dial tone/DSL line (line #1). Then we cancelled all service on line […]

I’m launching my Wiki site for the Pepper Pad: PepperWiki!

I finally got a decent file manager app running on my Pepper the other day. It’s emelFM, a pretty slick GTK1 file manager. The latest version compiles with the GTK1 RPMs I’ve made, though there are a few bugs in the internationalization files that gettext chokes on that I had to fix. I’ll be working […]

“Following an international search, the University of Toronto Schools’ Board of Directors, last night approved the appointment of ” a new principal — the former principal of our arch rival, UCC?!!?! Did they just snipe a real good catch, or is UTS being infiltrated by private school interests? I’ve always believed that the best administrators […]

I think that meddlers are the class of people who I detest the most. ‘To meddle’ is defined as: To interfere into other people’s affairs or business To tamper, or handle something ignorantly People who are protesting Canada’s seal hunt are meddling. Seal hunting is a strange thing to be sure, but interfering with people […]

Adobe Acrobat Reader can open Adobe Illustrator files!

Jack’s first day 1 Originally uploaded by chuma_. The secret is out now. On Saturday we got a new addition to the house. His name is Jack, and as you can see he’s small, orange/white, and feline. Like all felines he has three stages: Eat a lot Run around a lot Sleep a lot This […]