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Last night I saw a bunch of my old friends from highschool. These aren’t people that I see often – some live out of town, some are busy with work, but we try and have a get together around Passover when everyone is here. Other than these infrequent get togethers, Facebook has become the de […]

Ever onward IBM!

someone took two pictures of the wii action at my place to use for this random article about losing weight with the wii. do you think it’s a hint that we *should* be using it for this purpose? anyway, here are the pics in case you’re not interested in the article:

Today at work Baron kindly pointed out to me that my blog wasn’t working. I checked the site, and it worked fine for me. But then I checked again and got errors too. What ever could be wrong? Well, I consulted with my resident experts, and they both said it was the phpconfig. PHP Config? […]

I helped write a Redbook! Now I’m an author (in Draft state). Cool!

There’s an article in the Toronto Star today about WIT day at CASCON (which is tomorrow! AH!). Q But how is it that women can juggle making computers with making babies? … Q But are the babies disruptive to the computers? How do you trust babies around all that sensitive equipment? BAH! The article makes […]

Tonight was Hack Camp at CASCON 2006. There were more than 20 people there, despite the awful weather. Sacha and Stephen (nice homepage stephen!) gave a terrific introduction on what Hack Camp was going to be the rest of us chowed down on food. Then the fun began. Our first challenge was to format data […]

After our workshop was done, we wandered nextdoor into the Agile all-day workshop that had just finished. I had really hoped to take part in this workshop, especially since the chair of the workshop was Matt Ganis, who I’ve spoken to over the phone. Unfortunately, scheduling didn’t permit me to attend. Lucky for me, though, […]

This afternoon was my first CASCON workshop. It was pretty amazing – we had 30 people there, and a few waiting at the back in the hopes of getting a machine. There were a few minor glitches with the lab material, which was to be expected given the amount of code they involved, but nothing […]

Check out the google blog to see what Michael did!! Oh, you can see the Toronto weather if you’re clever – in celcius even! Under settings, choose your country as “United States” and then fill in your location as “Toronto, Canada.” If you leave your country as “Canada”, though, there’s no location box to fill […]