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Finally, this week the weather is starting to break into the double-digits, and it’s finally looking like spring in Toronto. Birds are singing and flocking to our backyard feeders, the ground is starting to defrost and soon I’ll be planting the vegetable garden. Spring also means spring cleaning. The car got a thorough cleaning over […]

Why do they make WordPress so hard to upgrade AGH. I hadn’t had enough coffee this morning and ended up screwing up my WordPress install. FUDGE. Now I have a handful of plugins to reinstall, have to re-customize my theme, bloody hell!

I’m looking for a cool image to put on the front of my new notebook at work. I thought about a map of something cool, then thought about those Moscow Metro panoramas, but right next to it was a link to posters from the US Work Projects Administration from the late 30s – early 40s. […]

None of the links from the CBC RSS feeds are working today… but, if you delete the ‘?ref=rss’ from the end of the URL, it works. Also, I tried to leave them a note about this, but all I get back is: An error occurred while processing your request. Reference #102.286fed8.1141677048.1c993 Seriously, folks, can you […]

This post on the Newtontalk mailing list written by Richard S. Sternberg is an excellent summary of consumer protection recourse, including a good description of the BBB and what they do. Jon, you might be interested in this… Of course, in Ontario we have some of the better consumer protection laws in North America.

Mobile Tech Review has posted a very very nice review of the Pepper Pad. They give it 4 stars out of five, while the lackluster Nokia 770 gets 3.5 stars.

Picked up a Linksys WRT54G v5 router last night. Best Buy had them for $79 with a $20 mail in rebate, and yesterday was the last day of the sale, so good timing. It was a helluva good deal. Got it setup and now things are good. Read a lot of threads about people setting […]

So apparently, the Linksys BEFSR81 router that I scored isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Two major drawbacks are going to force me to get rid of it, possibly with extreme prejudice: The QoS features of this router are useless. You can do port-based QoS, but that only deals with transfers WITHIN THE LAN. […]

Well it seems like Bell finally transfered my number over to Vonage today. I noticed because the Vonage phone was ringing more than it ever has, and there’s suddenly no voltage on the Bell line 😛 If you’re an incredible geek or just interested, this is what my home network/phone wiring looks like now.

In this news story about some diplomatic retribution between the US and Venezuela, Donald Rumsfeld says some things that make my jaw drop. Asked during a National Press Club appearance about indications of a generally deteriorating relationship between Washington and parts of Latin America, Rumsfeld said he believes such a characterization “misses the mark.” “We […]