I’m proudly colourblind. I admit, I don’t really have any choice in this matter; congenital conditions are rather like a one-way street. I confuse my greens and browns with little discernation.
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My various efforts in the PHP/MySQL world have been exciting but sometimes fraught with results that have left me back at the starting line with certain efforts. I have to celebrate when things go well.
posted in computing | Comments Off on Nothing broken this time around | 118 words
One of my favourite radio programs is “Cross Country Checkup” on CBC, hosted (regularly) by the erudite Rex Murphy, Newfoundland’s answer to the thesaurus. Excellent use of the spectrum. Exceptions occur.
posted in media | Comments Off on Our odd topic for today | 248 words
After dropping the rest of the family off at a cinema located a long way from home, so they could watch the latest Pirates of the Caribbean episode, I spent some time turning in circles in the wilds of Vanier. Amazing how that village, with a winding river running through it, adopted streets that also curve back upon themselves. I was in search of the OZ, where we go to repair musical instruments.
posted in economy, music | Comments Off on The string merchant | 223 words
Oh the glorious signs of summer. Freshly overgrown grass. Pools that need constant care. Offices that are understaffed (or sufficiently staffed, as it may be). Tents.
posted in environment, Wx | Comments Off on First tent in bloom | 93 words
The truth is out. Canada should be very concerned and frightened about the imminent risk of missiles hitting our territory from North Korea. Thus spake our glorious leader, wee Steve who Harps.
posted in politics | Comments Off on Be very very afraid | 144 words
With a computer in “wait mode” on my desk, I decided to testdrive one of the newer Linux distributions today. Downloading the ISO image took about an hour, from a Canadian website, and the “burn” worked well once it chose “disc-at-once”.
posted in computing | Comments Off on First impressions | 162 words
At work, I’ve been putting newer faster machines on some of the desks, and the reactions have been very low key. Today, I placed a tenpack of new LCD screens around the building, and you’d think my name was Santa. Funny how a faster processor means very little, but a new flat screen means that you’ve joined the new Millennium.
posted in computing | Comments Off on Some gifts more than others | 142 words
It was really nice to get home from work this evening and find that the lawn had been mowed, the whipper passed and a generally good job done of the yard. Not that it had not been done by others at different times, but I had pretty much committed myself to the long walk while coming home on the bus, and it was cool to see that other members of the team are playing the game.
posted in environment | Comments Off on Members of the team | 125 words
As our family ages (note I did not say matures, but that’s for another context), summer vacation plans are much harder to “nail down”, or “peg down” in tenting terms. We haven’t always camped, but the past decade has involved a series of tents. Always two as a base calculation, with other scenarios having depended on the time and place. And, tents do not age well (nor do they mature well). Although we try to choose the optimum sun-window for our dates, the biggest enemy of a tent, next to puppy dogs, is sunshine. Remember the hole in the ozone layer? It’s real.
posted in environment, technology | Comments Off on But where are the puptents? | 245 words
