Archive for September, 2007
This has been a fairly eventful and mildly exhausting week, but I’m sitting here in my freshly cleaned apartment on my freshly formatted computer drinking my freshly brewed cup of tea, so I feel like my life is shifting back to order quite nicely. Last week, in a fairly spontaneous decision, I bought a new computer. [ READ MORE ]
I’ve listened to some really great presentations today at the conference, but the most shocking thing I’ve found is how cheap a jug of American beer is when the Canadian dollar is even! That is all. [ READ MORE ]
I’ll be in Seattle this weekend for a Java conference, and then off to Vancouver for the Smashing Pumpkins concert on Monday night, so there might not be too much action here in the next few days. I ordered a new computer this week, and it just arrived today. I wanted to use my existing case, [ READ MORE ]
As I’m sure many of you have heard, author Robert Jordon passed away a couple days ago of Amyloidosis, a rare blood disease. I read his Wheel of Time series to the ninth or tenth book, absolutely loved every word of the first four or five, but I eventually lost interest. I had decided to return [ READ MORE ]
An interesting debate has been uploaded to Google Video, which was posted on Digg a while back, between Christopher Hitchens and Al Sharpton. Hitchens is the author of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Sharpton is an American Baptist minister. When I started to watch this, I was afraid it would just turn [ READ MORE ]
A month ago, Lucasfilm Ltd registered six titles with the MPAA, and they just announced the official name for the fourth Indiana Jones installment. The other options were: Indiana Jones and the City of Gods Indiana Jones and the Destroyer of Worlds Indiana Jones and the Fourth Corner of the Earth Indiana Jones and the Lost City of Gold Indiana [ READ MORE ]
I said I didn’t want to turn this into a video weblog, but I guess I lied. I can’t help it, Bill Murray makes me happy. I’ve been quite busy this last week, but we’re back to our regular scheduled programming. We thank you for your patience. [ READ MORE ]
I don’t want this weblog to turn into a YouTube video collection or anything, but I saw this video on Digg earlier today and really enjoyed it. These guys are great. [ READ MORE ]