Category: Tech Bytes

So, check this out: I’m spending some time tooling around on A9, Amazon’s new search engine. It pulls results (and advertising links) from Google primarily, but has a contextual search and search history feature that’s pretty neat. And, the combination of images and links on the same page is neat, too. So, like everyone should… Continue reading I’m a remix

So, I’m dealing with a security audit of our web server right now, since we have a new customer who jumped over that needs it for regulatory reasons. While there’s nothing dreadfully serious about the results, I’m mad as hell at the fact that Red Hat Enterprise Server’s wonderful, magical up2date utility has apparently *not*… Continue reading I hate security audits

As anyone who knows me is aware of, I’m an advanced Mac user. I’ve been using them since my high school computer courses with Gord Devito at Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver (warning: web ugliness ahead). I fell into the category of one of the MacEvangelists (a la the inimitable Guy Kawasaki, who ran… Continue reading Apple and My Education in the Markets

From BoingBoing, I saw this chart, a cool visual of the moral flowchart suggesting whether to rip a CD to mp3/OGG/AAC files on your hard drive. I’m in the push at home to get all our CDs ripped to MP3s — I’m at over 28GB, 5500 songs, and about 50% of the way through —… Continue reading CD ripping morality flowchart

My apologies to anyone trying to find info here — in the face of the catastrophic meltdown that the Fort Frances Times web server suffered last week, we’ve lost the last year of data on here. I’d probably be more choked if I had actually posted more than once every two weeks. I’m working at… Continue reading Please excuse the mess…