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Moving is hard

I only move within Canada, and even I think moving is hard. I left my drivers license, banking, financials all registered to my parents house until I bought my own place last year. Before that I moved about twice a year for more than a decade before that, across five cities in three provinces, and…

December 3, 2015
Internet of things that do what they’re told

I really loved this talk between Cory Doctorow and Tim O’Reilly The purpose of the IoT is to give humans superpowers A lot of our Internet of Things models proceed from the idea that a human emits a beacon and you gather as much information as you can — often in a very adversarial way…

July 13, 2015
Fake raid metadata

Thanks to this guy I finally got my 1tb disk initialized to use in my raid array – it had some garbage about being attached to another raid that I couldn’t remove or overwrite, so I finally plugged it into a usb dock and into my linux laptop and used dd to wipe the first…

May 2, 2015
Acer E3 111

I picked up a new acer laptop last weekend for 170$ from Canada Computers. On one hand, the keyboard is crap, it’s a bit slow, the screen has poor viewing angles and the wifi is a bit flakey. On the other, it was 170$, the screen is minimally adequate, battery life is decent, has usb3,…

April 20, 2015
CrunchBang ‘Detect Disks’ error fixed

Even though I have an almost obscene number of computers, I’ve really been missing having a personal laptop. So I’ve resurrected the IBM Thinkpad T42 that was old when my brother bought it used for school years ago. I had CrunchBang Statler installed on it before, currently trying to update it to CrunchBang Waldorf –…

August 15, 2014
Racing

May 22, 2014
New Floors!

Putting in our new floors today. Had a lot if help 😉 One room and hallway mostly done, two rooms to go. Edges take far longer than areas with these floating cork planks.

January 11, 2014
Baby tunes

So, here’s a first for me – a post about a finished project. Well, OK, not finished but in production at least. Friday night the radio in the nursery kicked it. I think the warranty has expired. I’ve been meaning to make a headless RasBMC player anyway, so I distracted the baby with the box…

November 10, 2013
Zombies got me

Game night with Fonz et al at his friend’s cottage.

September 22, 2013
I love this picture.

September 20, 2013

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