This year, we broke from tradition. We didn’t make the absurdly early trip to Future Shop for their Boxing Day sale. There just wasn’t anything worth getting up at 4:30 in the morning.
We did head in at around 11am though. I picked up a 2GB thumb drive for $30 (after [...]
I’ve been playing around with Subversion for the past couple of weeks. It’s a version control system similar to CVS. I use it to keep track of the software I write. So, at any time, I can go back and check out the state of a project from any day. It’s [...]
When I woke up on Thursday morning I noticed that my right shoulder was feeling a bit tender. I figured I had just slept on it funny, so I ignored it. Unfortunately it wouldn’t be ignored. As the day wore on, my shoulder started to get more and more sore. By that [...]
Today is officially the start of our Christmas vacation! I haven’t taken a vacation if a couple of years, so this is pretty nice. It’s especially nice because I get 10 days off, but only have to use up 1 vacation day. PQA is giving us the 3 work days between Christmas [...]
I you use Digg.com, you know that for the past few months it’s been pretty frustrating. It seems that every second post has been a video from YouTube.com. I like watching these videos as much as the next guy, but that’s not really the reason I visit the site. I want news.
Well, [...]
Kiley passed away early this morning. She lived a good, long life, and we couldn’t have asked for a better companion.
She’ll be with us always.
One more week. Then I’ll be on a paid vacation for 9 days! I love it when Christmas falls on a Monday or a Friday. This year, PQA decided to give us the 3 work days between Christmas and New Year’s as paid days off. This works out well for me [...]
