I’m so proud of myself. Over the years I’ve accumulated boxes full of old computer junk that I’ve been hanging onto on the off chance that I might need it sometime and using the rational “it cost my $$$$ five years ago it still must be worth something”. Well on the weekend I dragged out ...

Have you ever wanted to buy a spool of magnesium ribbon or a bag of thermite? This place United Nuclear sells some pretty cool stuff. They have supplies, and instructions, for making your own rockets and fireworks. You can even order radioactive materials for your experiments. I’m certainly thinking a spool of magnesium ribbon would ...

I was talking with Anji’s brother yesterday about his fourth year engineering project (he’s in Geomatics engineering). He was wondering about the difficulty of building a program that reads location information from a GPS receiver, takes any scanned / acquired map / lets the user pick two or more known points on it, and thereafter ...

Kyle pointed out a new spam prevention technique called grey listing. Basically it operates off the premise that 95% of spam sent is just fired off and ignored (ie. doesn’tretry on errors, stuff like that). Basically what grey listing does is for each inbound message it checks to see if the combination of sender, recipient ...

Last night was kind of cool. Anji works Monday and Wednesday nights at SAIT so it was just Kailey and I last night after dropping off Anji. We ran to Future Shop to complain about some digital prints we had made and then headed home. She fell asleep in the car on the way home ...