Personal

These entries are mainly personal stories. Some are on technical topics and my personal experiences with them and some are stories relating to my work experiences

My Secret List of Toronto Driving Shortcuts
Posted : Friday March 4th, 2011

The other day a friend asked me about a driving route that is currently fouled up in a major way by construction, and it got me thinking about my list of driving shortcuts in th...read more

3 random things
Posted : Tuesday July 6th, 2010

As the title implies there is no "theme" to this post it's just a collection of a few thoughts I've had or encountered recently. First to get a bit of housekeeping out o...read more

Whose blog is it anyway?
Posted : Wednesday May 5th, 2010

I had a discussion today on the topic of people stealing content from blogs, twitter feeds and the like. As it was the second time, and second different person, I had a discussi...read more

Random thoughts from the week
Posted : Saturday April 10th, 2010

I had a number of thoughts this week that at some point I thought could sprout into blog posts but it turned out that no, they really couldn't. On their own at least. So here is...read more

SEO and the magic beans
Posted : Monday April 5th, 2010

It seems like not a week goes by without someone, somewhere asking me a question about using "keywords" on a page. It seems there are still people, apparently stuck in 1997, who ju...read more

I really think
Posted : Saturday March 27th, 2010

that there is no quicker path to crappy code then having to screen scrape data. I really do. One of the things I have to do in my current job is to have software that co...read more

An update for December
Posted : Thursday December 31st, 2009

As it's the last day of December (and of 2009) and I haven't written one blog entry yet for December I kind of felt I should. Well obviously I have been pretty busy work-wis...read more

Whatever doesn't kill me will make me stronger
Posted : Thursday November 5th, 2009

Words to live by. I hope. I'm having a bit of a time of it of late. Work is not going swimmingly well. I mean I am working well but not getting everything I need...read more

Somewhat random thoughts
Posted : Saturday October 17th, 2009

I've been having an interesting but mostly good experience at my new job. As a person with lots of contracting experience previously I've seen a real mix in the ways company ope...read more

Strange SSL woes
Posted : Wednesday October 14th, 2009

I encountered a strange problem yesterday that I am still trying to resolve. Basically I went to an HTTPS url in Firefox and it got very upset. Essentially tells me that the con...read more

Because everybody has a Mom
Posted : Saturday October 3rd, 2009

Okay, if you've already seen this I apologize but every chance to get the word out. I am participating in the "Run for the Cure" for the Canadian Breast Cancer foundatio...read more

Sometimes I wonder
Posted : Tuesday September 29th, 2009

I wonder about people sometimes. I really do. I have been recently witnessing a slow train wreck on the Java forums with a new user. Now I should start off by pointing out that ...read more

Many updates
Posted : Saturday September 26th, 2009

As I noted previously I have been busy with a new job and I am bit saddened at how much my blogging has fallen off re...read more

IE Rant
Posted : Sunday September 6th, 2009

I wish I could think of a better (read: more humour) title for this post but I'm tired and frustrated so I can't. IE 7 is an abomination and I really, really don't get i...read more

Status update
Posted : Sunday August 30th, 2009

I feel bad for not blogging for awhile but I've been pretty busy as of late. I have just started working, a full-time gig, on a pretty complex J2EE project. It's pretty exciting...read more

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