A couple of weeks ago, my main computer started crashing. Sometimes Windows would just hang, not responding to the keyboard or mouse, and sometimes I'd walk in to find it sitting there displaying the Blue Screen of Death. This happened two or three times a day. I'm running a pair of Seagate Barracud...

On the morning of Sunday, 8 March 2009 at 01:00, Daylight Saving Time begins in Ontario and clocks are to be set ahead one hour. It is amazing that we still practice this ludicrous event semi-annually.  Daylight Saving Time saves NOTHING.  Never has, never will.  It's just annoying.  Worse, it's...

I was quite pleased to see the Ottawa Citizen run a huge article today on the fact of Evolution and a related article.  It's pleasing because even in Canada, the forces of stupidity would have us believe that some magical sky fairy bleemed everything into existence and gave humans domain over every...

This morning I was making my daily trip up Metcalfe St. when a bit of a fender-bender occurred, about 4 car-lengths ahead of me in the middle lane.  Not a problem, these things happen (although later, when I would pass the two cars, there was no obvious damage and the two women involved seemed to b...

Look, it's a talking dinosaur... but he's not purple, he sure doesn't love you and me, and we're definitely not one big family. The Phelpses and their Westboro Baptist Lunatics are working on picketing the National Day of Mourning for the Australian bush fires.  Fred and the gang think it is God's ...

Sometimes dealing with customers really makes you think of this stuff.  So here's a few links to give you a headache on this fine Tuesday: Time Travel Wormholes The Physics of Time Travel (warning - likely colour-blind web designer, I rate this site about 150 miliTimeCubes ** ) Time Travel and Mode...

If you're like me, you had to work today (16 Feb 2009) because, although today is a provincial holiday in Ontario (and Alberta, and some other places), it is not recognized federally.  Thus, if you work for the federal government (as so many people in Ottawa do), or for a federally regulated compan...

I just finished booking a trip for work, and after reading through the "you can't do this" and "you can't do that" items in the travel policy, I started thinking about business travel in general.  Every company I've ever worked for has treated business travel like it was a perquisite of the job - a...

What is with all the bollocks about Michael Phelps?  A sponsor is dropping him, the sherriff is investigating him, it makes CNN and Canadian news.  The guy smoked some weed.  That really prompts me to ask the all-important question: WHO THE FUCK CARES? I mean that.  Seriously.  Wow, he smokes m...

Haven't we had enough of this bullshit?  Haven't Canada and Canadians suffered enough abuse at the hands of foaming-at-the-mouth separatists? I say we give the Bloc and the Parti Quebecois what they want... vote them off our "island". They want to be separate?  Fine.  Separate them.  But we do i...