Sometimes I think the world would be a much better place if everyone just accepted that I’m smarter then them and did what I said. This of course is not the case, and I when I take some time to think about it – it’s good, I have no desire to be a puppet master …
Continue reading Doing worthwhile things is hardFor the last wo days or so I’ve been suffering from bandwidth troubles. I throttled the children’s upload to 10K so it wasn’t that. Finally I’ve decided to watch the web server logs for a minute, and I’ve noticed a pattern: 63.226.153.189 – – [09/Dec/2008:17:48:05 -0500] “GET /isomaster/wp-content/themes/ISO_master/images/ss-started-vista.png HTTP/1.1” 200 26112 “http://scenereleases.info/category/applications” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE …
Continue reading ISO Master has been crackedWhomever didn’t know that already? But knowing a fact without understanding the causes or implications can be pretty useless. So here is a summary of my wonderings of the last couple of weeks. For me to remember and you to enjoy. All of this year I’ve persistently worked on one thing and have signed up …
Continue reading Nice guys finish lastIt’s getting cold. In a few weeks it will be way too cold to ride my Vulcan 500, so I’m trying to make use of it as much as I can before I have to put it into storage for a half a year. Now it’s 2 AM and I just came back from a …
Continue reading Lost in the sticksI work on the Canvas3D project, a Firefox extension. Actually I work on JavaScript that uses it, not the extension itself. So every now and then I need to download the thing, from addons.mozilla.org And it’s bloody annoying. The addon is classified as ‘experimental’, which I assumed means that it’s not really ready for general …
Continue reading Open source projects can be full of it tooEver since I read the subversion manual I’ve been really impressed with version control, and with subversion especially. Like any other student in CS I’ve had my fair share of “Where is the latest version of my assignment? Crap, it’s on my desktop at home and it’s due in two hours”. And subversion got rid …
Continue reading Why don’t people use version control?This is a letter I mailed to Suzan Kadis. She’s the MP for Thornhill, Ontario – where I live. It’s an issue I feel strongly about. You should write to your MP about bill C61 also – if your MP thinks their constituents don’t care, they won’t care either. Verbatim copy follows. 26th June 2008 …
Continue reading An open letter to Susan KadisYou know what is the worst thing that a web browser can do? I just learned what – lose bookmarks. Not just the favicons, not just the order, not even the URLs – lose all the bookmarks completely. This is what Firefox 3 did. As part of the upgrade I made sure to recreate the …
Continue reading The worst thing a browser can doYesterday I wanted to find my MP to write to him/her about the conservative’s planed changes to copyright legislation. All I know about politics where I live is that my former MPP was an italian liberal and the current MPP is a conservative jew. Not much to go on, but at least I have an …
Continue reading The tale of a number of somethingsI’ve recently learned that Adobe has opened the Flash spec. Which, from an open source user’s point of view is really cool. But then I put on my competitor hat and started thinking of making a Flash editor. I won’t bore you with the technical details, of which there are lots (and no it’s not …
Continue reading How to open your spec but not lose to competitors