Archive for July, 2006

BlogBridge, my most favoritest RSS aggregator app, was bumped to version 3.0 this week. Lots and lots of small improvements, but most of the big changes are under the hood. Performance rocks (it totally doesn't feel like a Java app - it feels like any other native application), and things like syncing feeds and... »

I've been thinking about the moronically shortsighted DOPA doowackie that got passed South of the Border. Basically, if I understand correctly, it attempts to protect children from online predators (which is a Good Thing To Do™). But, it wants to do this by banning minors from websites that let them contribute. They won't be... »

It's a total non-issue for me, but Dreamhost (the cool company that's hosting my blog) is going through some rough times in their data centre at the moment. Apparently the heat wave in California is wreaking havoc on their power situation, causing a power outtage. The generators kicked in, but there was a short.... »

Dabble was just pushed into full public mode, after being in a beta (does anything ever really leave beta?). Looks like a pretty cool site - the main goal appears to be a social network growing around videos published around the internets. It is a pretty thorough implementation, completely done in Drupal. It looks like it's... »

The upside of this heat, combined with the smoke and haze from all of the wildfires, are some pretty amazing sunsets. I drove up the highway to Cochrane last night to catch the sunset, and wound up shooting 207 photos in under an hour. I made myself delete all but 5 of them, which... »

Woah. What a heat wave we've had the last couple of days. No doubt about global warming any more. This was taken outside my house in NW Calgary about 10 minutes ago (just before 3:30pm): That's 47.2?C or 117?F. Odds are, the temperature will rise a bit more in the late afternoon heat. 47.2?C. In Calgary.... »

Update: I added a cleaned up copy of my script, in case it comes in handy for anyone. Read the end of this post for more info... I just finished whipping up a workable bash script to automate installing and (basically) configuring a new site on a shared Drupal hosting server. Here's the basic scenario. First,... »

With the big brouhaha about the evacuation of Canadian (and American, and British, and French, etc...) civilians from Lebanon, I think we're all kind of missing the point.There are 50,000 Canadian citizens in Lebanon right now. The Canadian government has had to rent some cruise ships to ferry them to Cyprus and/or Turkey for... »

This blog is about 2 posts away from devolving into a bona fide cat diary (and I'm not exactly a fan of cats). I'll be trying to stop barfing banality into the internet tubes, so as a result I'll probably be posting much less. Hopefully, as quantity goes down, quality (and relevance) may go... »

It's been 2 weeks since I started riding my bike to work (and home again). I'm feeling much better, cooling off faster after each rode, and gradually getting faster. I've missed 3 rides (took one day off to hit the mountains, and had a family shindig one evening), but other than that, I've been riding... »