Apple has done wonders for human-friendly UI in the past, but with this latest ipod shuffle, they’ve made the cheapest part of the package, the one most likely to fail, about the most important part of the user interface. Well, that’s not entirely true; they’ve made it the only par...

I’ve listened to another couple hundred tracks, and managed to pull another 15 loosely themed tracks for your listening pleasure. I started with The Pack A.D. and picked 14 artists that I hadn’t heard of to go with the one I had. The band by the name of Nancy here is not the punk band fr...

Saw this story on the front page of technorati.com while I was looking for something else; apparently the conservative bloggers and professional reporters are up in arms over an event at a homeless shelter that Michelle Obama worked in this past week. The first lady visited a Washington, D.C., homel...

This isn’t my story, the following descriptive piece is from F*** My Life: Today, I was baking cookies. When I took the tray out of the oven I closed the door, but it bounced back open and hit me in the back of the knees. That caused me to sit down on the hot oven door. I was just wearing my s...

In the event you’re technically skilled webmaster with a social consciousness and are looking for work, Greenpeace is hiring someone for their downtown Toronto office. The ad sounds like you’d be the sole person responsible for the entire English language Greenpeace online presence, gene...

I received an email response to an application I made for a job in Toronto, inviting me to submit some potential times for a telephone interview. This isn’t that uncommon in the industry, and it does save time trying to reach candidates who are either at the office, or otherwise unable to talk...

Movie and TV show tie-in web games don’t often impress me on a technical level; it must still be hard to put a value on a good web experience and secure good budget for it. I still check them out, hoping for something that adds to the story. With more than a couple strikes against it on paper,...

Last night I was moving files around from drive to drive, and had shut a system down to swap one of the drives I new was dying out. It’s been overdue for a change, and I finally got around to moving all the data off of it. I’ve replaced Dying Drive with MP3 Drive from the other file serv...

There’s a decent amount of home computer work to be done; a laptop to disassemble in order to retrieve and destroy a failing CPU fan, a soon to fail hard drive to replace in the TV machine, and some updates to the file server that I’ve been meaning to do. The TV machine is easy enough, b...

Molson Canadian's Do Over Day? I don’t know about you, but I would kill to have a chance to be Phil Connors, stuck in Punxsutawney for a little while in the film Groundhog Day. Going back and doing a single day over and over again; learning a language, learning to play an instrument, and ...