Category Archives: Truro NS

Halloween? Last year at least some kids made it to the door, yesterday it was quiet. Over on the other part of the street it was actually buzzing with kids. For some kind of reason, I keep thinking that Halloween … Continue reading →

I was updating and committing changes to the RB CVS and discovered that SF still has not fixed the web-based interface. A shame. Now I can’t showcase my m4d l337 programming skills. Not completely related: I noticed that Leonard Cohen … Continue reading →

This month it’s knuckle month. Make fists out of your hands, put them together so that eight knuckles are lining up. Knuckles are months with 31 days. The valleys between the knuckles are the months with 30 days. Apparantly this … Continue reading →

Yuck. It took me an hour to scp a hundred plus of pictures to Alf’s computer. Some of them needed to be resized, then copied and then copied and once again scp-ed. I couldn’t have done it without the cat, … Continue reading →

I have been pretty busy lately. Just yesterday, I told my wife that today it was going to be a crucial day where the peddling against the stream should end up into a forward motion. Peddling it was for sure, … Continue reading →

Last night, the SpaceChannel had their Star Trek Marathon, which essentially ended up in a non-stop exercise of viewing Star Trek movies. Only movies I to VI were shown ordered by popularity. If I recall correctly, the best one was … Continue reading →

This year’s Thanksgiving, we think of Mom. Additionally, we were visited by two stranded visitors from Mars. Imagine the scene! Happy Thanksgiving! And drive careful. It’s a jungle in space.

One of my greatest heroes is the author/programmer Jeff Duntemann. Back in the days, one of his books and a disk with Borland TP 3.0 paved the road to my programming career. I had a couple of conversations with JD … Continue reading →

I noticed something when I was mindlessly browsing around. I ran into Oktoberfests, fests that are apparantly celebrated everwhere in this part of the world and are originally part of German heritance. Over in the New World, it’s natural to … Continue reading →

The following pictures have been shot by Donald Cox (FailSafe Computers of Truro) and are reprinted with permission (© 2003 Donald Cox). To ease the load on Alf’s server, I have downsized most of the pictures to a comfortable 300 … Continue reading →

Just a couple of days ago we were hit pretty hard by the hurricane. Sadly, we lost the beloved mother-in-law (Gayle’s mom) a couple of days before Juan hit us. Then we almost lost the car. We had no power … Continue reading →

We’re getting closer to landfall and apparantly HRM (Halifax Regional Municipality) has announced a local state of emergency, expecting a storm surge of 5 feet above normal high tide levels. Additionally the HRM announced safe locations for the people in … Continue reading →

Winds have picked up here too, but no rain yet in sight. I noticed that the hurricane track pages over at the WeatherOffice are getting popular since downloading the pictures is getting slower and slower. Please have mercy with the … Continue reading →