Monthly Archives May 2006

Angry Harper is back!

Canadian politics is a really boring subject. Things are about as exciting as the declining Chretien era, maybe even more dry. Harper's PMO has a vice grip on the Conservative caucus and has centralized decision making to the point of insanity. Actually, I'm pretty sure that he has secretly replaced all of [...] Read More…

Stupid Fridge-Human Interface

Does anyone get this? I pulled my water filter out of my refrigerator and it was frozen solid, so I tried to adjust the temperature. I don't get it though. Am I slow? I don't understand why there are two dials. Is one for the freezer and one for the refrigerator? [...] Read More…

A software book I read, and other stuff

I've been reading a bit of Martin Fowler's Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture lately and it has been good. There's lots of stuff in there that's really useful. I think my only complaint is that he talks a lot about data access abstraction techniques and object-relational mapping, even though very few enterprise apps [...] Read More…

Messy Me

My house has been pretty messy lately. I blame it mostly on being stupid busy, but that's such a lame excuse for living in squalor. See: So tonight I made myself a nice dinner and then I baked some delicious cookies. Following my brother's blog, I took a picture of my baking: Read More…

Album art for my iPod!

Nicholas said he went through all his music and tagged it with album art and it kinda made me want to do the same. He's right: scrolling to some music on your iPod and having the album art pop up when you hit play is like 20 times better than no album art. Read More…