Monthly Archives: March 2005

Dan says to me, as we go to get more coffee, “I never get the large ones anyway. I just don’t drink coffee that fast. It’s cold when I’m halfway done.” Because I am cheeky, I suggest that this is … Continue reading →

a real traveling salesman came by today to sell me some kind of cleaning product. i was surprised — i didn’t actually think there were actually any traveling salesmen left, what with the internet and all. a young guy. younger … Continue reading →

I ran into a hacker I know while I walked past the Pub (sadly, to go to work). He and a friend were smoking outside by the door, as many Ontarians do. We got to talking about computer stuff, impolitely, … Continue reading →

Don’t you just love it when a company funds a “think-tank” institution to say bad things about the competition? Now who is it they think they are fooling here? Even if the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution wasn’t explicitly on the … Continue reading →

You might be surprised to discover, while I work in the tech industry, I’m not all that fond of unchecked technological progress. Certainly, some technologies have improved people’s lives. Technology allows me to surf the Internet from the comfort of … Continue reading →

Here is an interesting followup to the previous post. It is from the website of a guy who apparently has all the answers about the universe. We have abdicated our responsibility to ensure that we have as accurate picture of … Continue reading →

In ancient times, people believed in all kinds of crazy stuff, perhaps because in the absence of any detailed study, any old explanation was as good as another. You’d think there would be less of that today, but alas no, … Continue reading →

This is the prototype of the 200503 Eclipse, doing it’s burn-in test. It’s the first production system I’ve designed to use the nForce 4 SLI chipset (although the system only has one GeForce 6600GT in it at the moment). The … Continue reading →

According to this article Apple is “feverishly working on a two-button wireless optical mouse that it intends to release.” It’s more the tone of the article that I find amusing. It is as if the the author expects this to … Continue reading →

There doesn’t seem to be anything obviously amiss with the power supply or the mainboard, other than nothing happens when you push the ‘on’ button. Disconnecting everything except the core (mainboard, CPU, RAM, VGA) yields the same amount of nothing. … Continue reading →