Pun Intended Consequences
In which the main character rambles on about stuff.
Dec 21, 2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
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THIS movie should really be called Exodus: Moses’ Struggle with God . Early on in the movie, Moses (at the time an Egyptian general), trav...
Jul 7, 2014
Easily Authenticate when Pushing to a Git Remote
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SOMETIMES when you’re working with git repositories, the remote doesn’t support pushing and pulling over SSH. It only supports HTTPS. Or you...
May 13, 2014
Stack Overflow and its Discontents
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LIKE many others, I’ve come to rely on Stack Overflow (SO) as an amazing repository of technical knowledge. How did it become so comprehensi...
Dec 9, 2013
Man of Steel
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IT TOOK me a while to write about Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (MoS) because I was trying to articulate what it meant to me. And I think I’ve...
Nov 2, 2013
Notes on The Master and Margarita
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‘MANUSCRIPTS don’t burn’.–Woland, The Master and Margarita Recently I re-read this classic, long my favourite book, and I re-discovered wh...
Sep 13, 2013
Excel Gotcha–Fractional Numbers
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TODAY I learned (the hard way) about a subtle bug in Microsoft Excel. It seems that to the VLOOKUP function looking for a matching value in ...
Dec 10, 2012
Analysing Transit Spending with Presto
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ABOUT a year ago roughly I started using a new transit fare payment card called Presto . Presto is a top-up card–you pay as you spend–and it...
Dec 8, 2012
Tweet from the Browser Address Bar
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This will work on Firefox and should also work on Chrome with a little adjustment. You can start posting a tweet straight from the browser a...
May 21, 2012
Marvel’s The Avengers
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Warning: Minor spoilers. I do references specific scenes from the movie, but nothing major. HARK, True Believers, and let me tell you a st...
May 6, 2012
Bookmarking in Adobe Reader
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I RECENTLY moved to Windows and started using Adobe Reader. The latest version is Adobe Reader X (that is, 10) and I started to keenly feel ...
Feb 13, 2012
Short Note on Blogging
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SOME time ago I complained that there wasn’t any good, free blogging software on the Mac. Well, since then I’ve pruned my list of demands ...
Feb 12, 2012
Thoughts on Lion
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I UPGRADED to Mac OS X Lion, the latest and greatest version of Mac OS X, tonight. While the update was cheap ($30) and easy (click and run...
Nov 10, 2011
Kobo Vox
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THE KOBO Vox (from Latin, vox populi, ‘voice of the people’) is Kobo’s latest and greatest ebook reader. It’s basically a touch-screen Andr...
Sep 2, 2011
St Urbain's Horseman
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I’VE read a couple of other Mordecai Richler books by now, but this one was probably the most passionate, the most powerful. A man caught be...
Feb 3, 2011
Seen on Miway (Mississauga Transit) bus
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The way the sphere appeared Up in the sky, I stood in the shower. I felt no fear. I knew It loved me. The master returns To dote on i...
Sep 10, 2010
Life's Too Short for Instant Search
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GOOGLE has recently rolled out their very own instant search, branded Google Instant , for most signed-in users. The cool thing about it is ...
Mar 29, 2010
Blogging Sensitive Stuff, and Some Whining
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I THINK I've blogged before about not wanting to post private, personal stuff. But I've been lumping some other things as private ...
Nov 21, 2009
Logicomix--Mathematics & Madness
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I BOUGHT Logicomix last Sunday and, reading feverishly on my lunch breaks, and in transit between home and work, finished it yesterday. Adm...
Oct 2, 2009
Locked Out of Car? If a Knife Doesn’t Work, Try a Key
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THIS just happened, right before dinner. So I ordered a delivery and the guy arrived and handed over the food within half an hour. Speedy an...
Sep 26, 2009
Google Chrome Frame
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FUNNY how things turn out: Re:Lame. ( Score:5 , Funny) by derGoldstein (1494129) on Saturday August 22, @11:34AM ( #29155639 ) Oh coo...
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