Archives
You’ll find my archives here, stretching back to 2002.
- Clikstand Stove vs Trangia 27
- Titanium Siphon Stove
- Trangia Stoves: In appreciation of good design
- Remapped Mac keyboard shortcuts on Kinesis Advantage and Contoured Keyboards
- First Impressions with the Kinesis Contoured Classic QD (KB133PC/QD)
- Kinesis Contoured Classic QD (KB133PC/QD)
- I’ve been shining my shoes wrong all this time
- IoT: Does everything need to be in the cloud?
- 2017: A new year
- The highs and lows of the last two weeks
- Great read: McMansion Hell
- Android security progress
- Apple Touch Bar & Microsoft Surface Dial: Two separate solutions for the same problem
- pfSense OpenVPN, VLAN and DNS Resolver guide
- The behavioural psychology of engagement
- @Kobo: It’s been a slice
- Comcast has a dream(works)
- Microsoft announces that the Xbox is coming to the PC.
- Will the Internet of Things be the next green field?
- Virtual Reality Adoption: Market Size, Affordability, Ergonomics, and Shareability
- The fall of Oyster and Scribd: Subscriptions might become interesting again
- Ad-Blocking: users are revolting
- Product management fundamentals: The next feature fallacy
- Hackintosh thoughts
- Lightning does strikes twice – Linux and Git
- HP T610 Plus and pfSense
- Thoughts on 2014 and 2015
- Review: Into the Woods Film (2014)
- HP T620 thin client
- Forbes.com reviews the Kobo H2O
- Feature Pruning: When and how to kill a product or feature?
- Setup pfSense as an OpenVPN client for specific devices
- Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: One addresses a customer issue, the other a business issue
- Apple Pay: Addressing a customer problem
- HP T610 thin client: low-powered, low-cost XBMC box
- Failure
- Happy Anniversary
- Oculus Connect 2014 Keynote: Frank comments from John Carmack
- Ars Technica: Review of iOS 8
- “Kobo’s offering is the peak in terms of e-reader hardware right now…
- Old blog posts added
- I don’t know how this sells Cup Noodle ramen
- USB Sound Cards: Omni Surround Pro 5.1 vs. Recon 3D USB vs. X-Fi 5.1 Pro
- Getting old posts back in 2014 and the new Fuji X-T1
- Well, that was unpleasant
- Goals for 2014
- pfSense on Watchguard Firebox x550e
- pfSense performance on an HP T5720 Thin Client
- Installing pfSense 2.1 on an HP T5720 thin client
- Steambox vs. the Incumbants (Xbox One, PS4)
- On to WordPress
- Hello world!
- Moving Away from Octopress
- My thoughts on moving from UX to Product Management
- Finally back up
- Text Editor Wars – Return of the jEdit
- IKEA SLITBAR chef’s knife review
- Luma Labs Cinch Review
- Thinking about mathematics
- MG Seigler: Commenting is a facade
- Ownership of what you write
- Happy New Year
- Finding time to write
- Siri, where are you?
- Flying
- Going public
- First post in a long time
- The shift to delighting the customer
- The migration begins
- Quote: Steve Jobs and Apple
- Nokia N8 – More thoughts, Days 8 to 14
- That’s how I feel using Windows Phone 7
- Nokia N8 – A Braindump of my First 7 Days
- Un-abashed Apple Fan-boyism, but 100% true none-the-less
- My brief encounter with the Nokia n8
- Can’t wait to see what Symbian^3 has to offer
- “Unresponsive scrolling and taps are unacceptable…
- My post in HowardForums.com
- Android vs iOS4 – Software
- Buying a new home
- About platforms: A brief break from the Android vs. iOS4 analysis
- iPhone4 vs Nexus One: More thoughts on hardware
- This is why the Kobo eReader doesn’t support justification
- Random Stuff: Dad Again, Android N1 Stuff, Microsoft KIN
- iPhone 4 vs Nexus One: Hardware
- Pretty historic 2 weeks for me
- Protecting the Nexus One: Best Skin Ever
- The Nexus One 24-hour update
- Crazy: Microsoft is getting their mojo back
- Itching for a redesign
- Nokia, you suck at UI Design
- Quote: It’s all about quality…
- Thoughts on Android
- Why gaming on Symbian sucks
- VoIP is So Freaking Cool
- A cure for colony collapse
- Are mapping applications spatial browsers? Yes, but better.
- Why am I loyal to Nokia and Symbian?
- iPhone (iFun) for a Weekend
- If you don’t save, how do you expect to get wealthy?
- Neil Gaiman sums up the whole Kindle text-to-speech debacle
- MacBook Pro Woes… Again.
- Restoring a 100 year-old clock
- Social Entrepreneurship Summit 2008
- ATI x1600 + Ubuntu 8.10 + Xorg 7.4 = Meh
- PC World reports 38 percent revenue from online
- RIP! A remix manifesto
- Courage to create
- We have no clue
- Some good things about Drupal
- Bill C-61: The Conservative Party of Canada is Insane
- Where is the Drupal Joy?
- Resume is finally up and running
- Book Making from 1947
- “Directly responding to Apple’s campaign is weak…
- I have no more mash potatoes for my Shepherd’s p…
- Of Drupal Woes
- “We think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web…
- Quote on Drupal and the cluster that is theming
- Why are Drupal themes so unspectacular
- Drupal Theming Sucks
- John Gruber on Wall-E/Wall•E/Wall*E/…I alway…
- Add this to VMWARE .vmx file
- Brendan Dong
- USA National Collegiate Badminton Tournament
- Finally got my new badminton racquets
- Badminton: Tired as heck.
- New site design
- Badminton: Not so good today.
- Mini-Review: Victor Power Waves 11 Badminton Racquet
- Jen’s IQ is higher than mine
- Running day 1: 4.02 km in 30.35
- Meet Isabelle Mie Jihae Choi
- Past weekend
- RAW conversion in Linux: Pro Apps
- Happy Birthday, Congrats on Marriage #2 Rubem!
- Strange Dream
- Mmm, Pork.
- Good bye racquet. It’s been a slice!
- If only happiness was so simple
- Alvin Ailey American Dance
- Some Textpattern and Textile Resources
- Badminton Blues
- Mini-Review: Sotx PowerBoss Woven-11 Badminton Racquet
- Information Visualization: Why does it matter?
- Changing Daylight Savings in Gentoo
- Haiku of the Day
- My Orchid plant isn’t doing to well
- Why AJAX failed
- Gentoo: Is it good for Servers?
- Computer Woes
- Kinners Unite!
- Corynn
- Christmas Passes
- Random stuff.
- Blogging Software: I pick the winners
- Thoughts about Logos and Design
- Flickr Update: My Wedding
- Flickr Update
- Fulfilling a Pact
- Server Update: GCC 4.1.1
- Emulating games
- Adobe Lightroom Beta
- Camera, Work and Weddings
- Welcome back Aneil
- Moment of Weakness
- Busy, Busy != Productivity
- The four things that are top of mind
- Tonnes of stuff
- 3G iPods cannot be charged on USB.
- New Online presence.
- Oh, and one more thing…
- Ballet and Boygroove: Two recommended shows.
- Acupuncture with Dr. Stanley Gwo Wuu Shyu
- Quick Excel Keyboard Shortcuts
- Misc. Stuff
- Running: Part 4
- Upgraded to the latest kernel.
- Get a Mac Ad Campaign
- Best Martial Arts Fight Ever!
- Wing Chun: The Legend Continues … Poorly
- Running: Part 3, A good time
- My LG DLP (RU-44SZ61D) does not have an HD2+ chip
- Painting, Painting, Painting.
- Running: Part 2
- Weekend Review
- IM Clients
- jEdit Tip: Jump to the end of the tag
- Horror Movie Setting
- Terence’s New House
- Webhosting – Some truths
- Joomla! CMS for simpletons
- Wireless Woes Continue
- WRT54G – Frequent IP address changes = Wireless drop-offs
- Connecting a Speedtouch 516 DSL modem to a WRT54G
- How to: Connect a Dell 1600n to a Mac for Printing and Scanning
- 9 Days without coffee
- Things I want to do
- Done.
- World Community Grid – CPU Volunteerism
- So many things
- I want an iMac G5!
- Getting the Server up and Running
- Mac Envy
- Gentoo Linux
- Linux Desktop; Almost there.
- If she’s drinking–I’m out of there
- I want to be Indiana Jones
- Changing Spaces
- Site is going down.
- Cool Job; Lego Master Builder
- Tired; Long Drive
- Sick; No blog
- Jasmine Release Party II; Stiff Crowd
- Car Wars: Online
- 26 Year Bash
- Surprises for the 26th Birthday
- Sound Body
- Sound Mind
- Weekend Review: Wendy and Henry
- Weekend Cometh
- What would be perfect right now…
- Managing Expectations: Must Kill Collin
- Hiptop Envy – I wonder if Kev is overcompensating?
- Labour Day Review: Zoo and Tdot White Party
- OK Computer
- Alas – No more Dual CPU love.
- Why 3D can’t work.
- Dual CPU Goodness & Badness
- Tired@work
- Even Stranger Dream.
- Work Stuff Got You Down?
- Computer – I’m so excited!
- No Dual-CPU love; Burninator
- GNU Go – Open source Go Game
- Computer Update; So Close.
- Weird Dream; What does it mean?
- Computer Update.
- Toronto in the dark.
- Computer Update
- OnX BBQ; The smell of meat
- New Computer: Part 1, The Motherboard
- The Magic 8-Ball says Yes.
- Weekend Review
- Hardware Blues
- Announcements; Moving On Up
- Burnt out; 2:00 am
- More Ciphers? A new adventure.
- Progress Update: New Site Validates!
- New Books: Exciting.
- 5 Km Run.
- To all my female friends.
- Fun Facts about Me; Not so funny, I think.
- Cools Sites; CSS.
- Stuff; Personal, Professional & Financial
- First Blog for July; Too Busy.
- Ottawa Weekend; Good times ahead.
- 5KM Run; Bloody Hot.
- Insight; Passionless Tai.
- New Site in Beta mode.
- Nitrogen rocks; keeping chips crispy
- Weekend Review; Too much BBQ goodness for one weekend.
- Conversation with Jen; should I be nervous?
- Old Friends; good times.
- Late night; Can’t sleep.
- Lots of things on my Mind;
- Today’s musings
- An Update.
- I suck.
- This site is coming down!
- Weekend Review: Birthday Bash!
- Making it Big: I’m on Edward Tufte’s Site!
- Introvert?! I’ll Introvert You!
- How about this?
- Looking Glass
- The Weekend.
- Update: New Site on the Way
- St. Valentine’s Day Weekend
- Speeding up Microsoft Word v.X
- Sick, yet again.
- Healthy Choice “Solos” – Meal for the lonely
- The War Continues; Sick in Detroit
- 1-year Anniversary; Finances
- The week is almost over.
- Motor City!
- Spending time with the Mom
- Moving Coasters: The Movie.
- Hot Flashes!
- Bought & Wants
- Is that an 8-ball in your pocket?
- To NY and Back; Shrek Party for the New Year
- Norwalk Virus: Not 100% recovered.
- Norwalk Virus: Epilogue
- I’m a Risk.
- Interesting Fact: Norwalk Virus
- Norwalk Virus: Day 3
- Norwalk Virus: Day 2
- I have the Norwalk Virus.
- Kev and his Wireless Network.
- Gossip.
- Pain.
- I’m so sore
- Whistler – Wet and Rainy
- Very Tired.
- I have to stop doing this!
- News Flash!
- In and out of Vancouver
- Web Redesign Step 2: Original Site Map
- Julie has a New Site
- Pixels and widgets version 2.0
- Good Weekend.
- My new cousin.
- Bizarre
- Mommy Dearest
- Mmm, Beef
- Time to myself
- O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
- Ho Hum.
- Great Weekend: Golf, Dinner…Kev’s B-day
- Prime Rib Roast Weekend.
- How Embarrassing
- Jen and her Folk Dancing
- Update
- Bushwhacking in Rouge Valley
- Open Source Software Usability
- Temptation of Tech: .Mac
- e-Book Reading
- I’m Back.
- Birthday.
- Stripped down to numbers
- New Website Functionality!
- NEW CONTENT!
- Moving along
- Weekend Review: Algonquin, a New Toh in the Family.
- Back from Vancouver. Cam’s Dream.
- Flight back to TO. Flat Tire.
- The Grouse Grind. My Cousin Redeems Himself.
- Stanley Park, A Sea Otter in search for Pleasure, and Return to Nerdom.
- Take off from TO to Vancouver
- Going to the West Coast
- Interview
- Job Interview: Longview Systems
- Happy and Sad :: Kind of.
- Jen – Safe and Sound
- 2:00 AM EST – Where’s Jen
- Weekend: Pleasant, No AC.
- Resume is up and running
- I’m a Lumberjack
- A Good Day
- Updated to MT 2.2.1
- Minor things
- Horrible Revelation!
- BOO On Laundry!
- Sunday Blues
- Saturday: Long Day
- FUN FUN FUN
- Pleasant Surprise
- Tai in Grade 2
- Oh, I just remembered
- Old Picture: Memories
- Time Apart
- Weekend Review: Signs, Main Street, and Chores
- Breaking news: Weeds, Condo Talk & UI Blogs
- Life of a Contractor
- Mac Vs. the PC. To Serve or Not to Serve?
- Weekend Review: Roxy Blu, BBQ, Jen’s Co-workers
- Two Interesting Facts
- My Mac Infactuation: The Bait and Switch
- Week(s) in Review: Wasaga to TONIC
- Battle against the Dust-Bunnies
- My Long Weekend: Day 2 of 3
- Working Brain
- The Barenaked Circus Debacle
- Coolness factor, I did save Mike’s iBook, and the Bier Market.
- Saving the Day, Apple Driven by Design, Ditched, and Dinner with Jen
- Mike’s iBook Troubles and How I saved the Day
- Lunch with Laura, the Return of Michael Kurtz
- Getting in shape
- A Most Wondrous Shareware App
- Lunch, Tired Feet, Mental Clarity
- End of the Day at CP
- Back at CP
- Pocari Sweat, Flo’s B-day, Introspection
- Gifts from Japan
- Spider-Man :: The Movie
- Off I Go.
- Toh-Bro Eco Challenge 2002 :: Team Profile
- Toh-Bro Eco-Challenge 2002 Update :: Route and Food
- More details :: Toh-Bro Eco Challenge 2002
- Into the Woods.
- Spreading some creamy, UI goodness
- Friday Night at Roxy Blu – Garage416
- Three Wonderful Years.
- Grandmother
- Stuff.
- Long time, No Blog
- Update
- Fitts Law Revealed
- Corporate Anthems, Security, and a new Fitts’ UI tool.
- Garth Fagan Dance
- Blowing off some steam
- Some interesting links on Design
- Whatchya gonna do…?
- Slight Technical Difficulties
- Skeletons in the Closet
- Update on the X-box Controller
- The Brotherhood of the Stag
- Artificial Intelligence
- Remembering the past few days; a retrospect
- First Page Up.
- thoughts on Human Factors
- A late night conversation with Jen
- Proud to be a KINadian and all that jazz.
- Things that I do for my girlfriend
- On Canadian Hockey, Spanish Food, and Keeping in touch with others
- First Post