Category Archives: Truro NS

I was listening and watching the NBC documentary about the ‘Da Vinci Code’ and thought I heard a musical piece I recognized. Wasn’t that music from Ultima 7?? No really, you say (mp3)? Thinking back of playing Ultima 7, if … Continue reading →

Caudium is a webserver, written in C, sporting a non-forking kernel. That’s really good, but why the hell does it needs to be installed for, when apt-getting php4-gd? I’m talking about Debian’s super package manager, you know, the one with … Continue reading →

Earlier this day, I completed the task of putting the WAP together and got it to work with the new router (tip: over at Staples they have wireless routers on sale (ranging from 30 -40 dollars), which saves you from … Continue reading →

I managed to get a LinkSys router and put it in between the hub and this laptop and it seems like it’s working. I had a couple of problems with the internal firewall: apparently there was a conflict between ZoneAlarm … Continue reading →

Looking for details for a houseplant we bought last year, I discovered it was a Flowering Maple, or better yet, an Abutilon striatum. Ours is growing pretty good, but needs some kind of trellis to support all the twigs. Half … Continue reading →

First of all, as of today, we have finally joined the Daylight Savings time crowd. Somewhere, or earlier I wrote that this week there would be a 4 hours difference between here and the old continent, which wasn’t correct. It … Continue reading →

Playing the last years/rounds in a CivIII game, I noticed how close the opponent was. If one could only make bridges to cross channels like the one shown in the picture. A waste of time to build transports. Also, notable … Continue reading →

More observations on Halifax after a brief phone discussion with the homefront. There’s a couple of things Halifax is famous for (Keiths), but the real attraction is actually the Citadel (and environs). It’s a kind of a shame that one … Continue reading →

Cleaning up stuff, I found a couple of CD-Rs which I thought were lost. Actually, I thought these disks were supposed

Walking through the local Staples store today, I mesmerized about the current state of computer technology. I happened to run into an HP Mediacenter PC, a Windows PC heavily focussed on digital media (as you may tell from that picture). … Continue reading →

A couple of minor changes to the ‘Related Links’ portions that appear in the individual posts. There’s no need to show the ‘Related Links’ portion when there are no external links. This is what the code looks like right now … Continue reading →

Is it Spring, yet? It looks like it is. Once again the snow is melting around the house making the ground as soggy as it can be. More interesting is the fact that my tiny maple-tree-turned-into-bonsai seems to be doing … Continue reading →

Just finished watching the movie ‘Dogville’ and thought it was brilliant. First of all, not knowing anything about the movie, I was first surprised seeing everything play out on a stage, where houses were marked out with white lines. Secondly, … Continue reading →