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

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

Death knell for software patents?
Posted : Wednesday August 12th, 2009

Today's breaking news, that Microsoft has had an injunction a...read more

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