I’ve gone on my honeymoon to Peru a couple of weeks ago and now that I’m back I’m going through my email. I have a spam filter but sometimes things go through it, especially if it’s something unusual. I’ve already deleted 4 spam messages, every single one of them in Spanish. I don’t even remember …

I don’t think I’ve ever had a summer as successful as this one in terms of vacations. I went to Newfoundland and back on my motorcycle, and I went on a 5-day canoe trip in Killarney. Now what could I possibly do to compete with that in the coming winter…

For quite a few years I resisted the temptation of setting up a wireless network at home. Story after story suggested that WiFi is a crappy, unstable, and awfully insecure set of technologies. Finally though things seemed to have settled down, and with WPA2 the wardriving stories ended. So a couple of years ago I …

I was planning to go on a long trip on my bike, and I needed to bring luggage. The trip was long enough and I needed enough stuff that putting it all in a backpack wasn’t doable. I shopped around for such a rack but didn’t find anything at a price I was willing to …

As part of an exercise in a course I was taking I was required (or at least strongly encouraged) to create a Twitter account and learn to use it. I figured why not, might as well see what it’s about, maybe there’s something I’m missing. After a few days I decided I wasn’t missing anything …

A set of circumstances have left me with a lot of time on my hands. I’ve spent some of several days reading back posts on Garth Turner’s blog. He got kicked out of the conservative party so probably isn’t a total asshole. I started reading it because of my interest in real estate, and the …

I don’t think it’s a great idea to blog about my finances but this one surprised me so much I’ll share this personal piece of info with the internet: on the 29th of January this year I had an ING Direct account. Last saturday (in the middle of the night) I wanted to log in …

I have to do research for school. I’ve been told many a time don’t use Google. Now Google is giving me a reason to be pissed off. When the search results come back with PDF files – I don’t get to see the link to the PDF where it actually sits, the link I get …