Our Hectic Weekend

Well. Finally we took possession of our new house in Royal Oak this Friday, Aug 13th, 2004. We finished signing things around noon on Friday and then some of our friends showed up to help us move (thanks Doug, Scott, Ryan for lugging all our stuff, and thank you Candice and Pam for baby-sitting). We ...

Our House

Supposedly we are taking possession of our house on Friday this week. We find it highly unlikely that it will be done, the finishing work at least. So far we are still missing eves troughs, lots of paint, many appliances, an electrical outlet, light valences, and undoubtedly more stuff. We also have one damaged window ...

Cool Photography Fun

Jared, David and I were playing around w/ the A75, my blue photon micro light, and my old shoe mount flash unit and took quite a few “interesting” photos like these ones. They are all unedited. All 15 sec at f8 and ISO50.

Canon Powershot A75

On Thursday evening Anji and I cashed in a tonne of VISA points and bought a Canon Powershot A75. So far we’re pretty happy with the unit. It’s low light performance is pretty decent (although slow as a noise reduction algorithm is turned on for long exposures). It’s auto-focus is also a bit slow but ...

Tor

Found a really awesome project Tor which is “an anonymizing overlay network for TCP”. It’s something along the lines of a low latency mix-master for interactive protocols. I live crypto / anonymity stuff so I gave it a try at work. It basically acts as a socks proxy and routes traffic through a random selection ...