tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-167595732024-03-08T12:20:02.241-05:00I CanicusNo particular place to goCanicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-22458502804205962072009-08-09T22:41:00.002-04:002009-08-09T22:45:56.129-04:00Light ShowAlas that I had to work today.
The lightning show that has been playing for hours has been incredible. It has been more than a decade since I've seen anything like this. I hope that someone, somewhere has some good photographs of this storm. I just heard another drum beat.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-72023543230125751992007-12-31T04:56:00.001-05:002007-12-31T04:56:47.647-05:00test 1<br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">-----------------------------------------------------</span></span></span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font: 12.0px Century Gothic"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">"I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball."</span></span></span></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font style="font: 12.0px Century Gothic"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "> </span></span></span></font></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">-- Stengel</span></span></span></font></font></font></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-5262946449222281902007-12-31T04:51:00.000-05:002007-12-31T04:52:40.261-05:00The End is NighIt is the last day of the year.
I think that 2008 will be a good year.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-64334828850207593972007-03-15T01:13:00.000-04:002007-03-15T01:15:24.073-04:00Google is GreatI have just, for about the fifth time, reset my google password. This is getting boring. Each time, I send myself an email with the new password so even if I forget it, I can't forget it. However, it never, ever seems to work.
Let's see if this one sticks.
So far, I am not impressed with the 'new' blogger.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1173093383239590792007-03-05T06:06:00.000-05:002007-03-05T06:18:48.876-05:00Ronald Reagan and Conservatism<p>I have been wandering the web tonight and I tripped over a reference to a speech by Ronald Reagan on <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006969.htm">Michelle Malkin's</a> site. This speech was given soon after he took office, in March of 1981. In it, he describes what he thinks 'conservatism' means.</p>
<p>Mr. Reagan has become something of a saint for U.S. conservatives but do they actually pay any attention to him?</p>
<p><blockquote>Now, during our political efforts, we were the subject of much indifference and often times intolerance, and that’s why I hope our political victory will be remembered as a generous one and our time in power will be recalled for the tolerance we showed for those with whom we disagree.</blockquote></p>
<p>Whatever his faults were — and like the rest of us he had them — to my awareness, Mr. Reagan was a generous and decent man.</p>
<p>I find these missing from political debate in the U.S. Perhaps I'm blind and simply don't see it. Will this be remembered as a time of tolerance for those with whom we disagree?</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1171531024203756502007-02-15T03:48:00.000-05:002007-02-15T04:17:04.216-05:00Old MouseThis morning, I trashed my mouse.
It was an Apple Mighty Mouse.
Alas, while it may have been Apple, it was surely not mighty. It is the last mouse that I buy from Apple.
My new mouse is an old mouse — also an Apple mouse but this time simply a wireless mouse. I'm going to miss the trackball. Actually, I already do.
Tomorrow, I think that I'll order a Razer mouse. The sluggishness of the Apple mice wears upon me. Hopefully, someone else will someday produce a good mouse with a trackball instead of a scroll wheel. I don't know why others haven't adopted this yet since it's so much nicer to use.
For Apple mice however, the lousy excuse for buttons and the resistance to maintenance that the Mighty Mouse offered, rendered it second rate despite the trackball.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1165779727591441652006-12-10T14:40:00.000-05:002006-12-10T14:44:11.406-05:00At the Glass Maze<blockquote cite="http://doodleplex.com/glassmaze/?p=447"><p><a href="http://doodleplex.com/glassmaze/?p=447">Behind the Scenes at the Microsoft Zune Design Laboratory</a></p>
<p>Lead Designer: [Holding up an iPod] Ok, so we want to make one of these.</p>
<p>Associate Designer: Embrace and extend one of these, you mean.</p>
<p>LD: Right, right. [Nods] Right. So are we done?</p>
<p>AD: Well, no. We have to design it.</p>
<p>LD: I thought we were embracing their design.</p>
<p>AD: No, Jobs has good lawyers. We need to do lots of extending.</p></blockquote>
<p>
This is fun.</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1165113503540723012006-12-02T21:37:00.000-05:002006-12-02T21:38:23.773-05:00Those accursed Habs...The Leafs are playing the Canadiens and they're in overtime now.
Saku Koivu has scored twice tonight, including the tieing goal.
Damn!Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1165093723959376172006-12-02T16:05:00.000-05:002006-12-02T16:08:43.970-05:00MySpace SPAM GeneratorThank you MySpace!
At the end of September, I opened an account at MySpace. I'm not sure why, I was probably drunk, but anyways, there it is.
I created a new email address exclusively for this project.
I promptly forgot about it.
Today, I logged into my ISP and then noticed this email address. I decided to set my mail client to read it.
What did I find?
Hundreds of SPAM! A single instance of usage and I get hundreds of SPAM.
MySpace sucks!Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1164988881131172372006-12-01T10:58:00.000-05:002006-12-01T11:01:21.150-05:00Good one<blockquote cite="http://www.kottke.org/remainder/06/11/12333.html"><a href="http://www.kottke.org/remainder/06/11/12333.html">Remaindered link</a> posted November 30, 2006 at 05:26 pm
How to choose a good book to read, a tip from Marshall McLuhan: turn to page 69, read it, and if it's good, you've got a winner. (via snarkmarket)</blockquote>
This is exactly what I do except I choose a page at random. If a book cannot stand this test then it probably won't be readable.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1164545637209528722006-11-26T07:53:00.001-05:002006-11-26T07:53:57.226-05:00Good Grief!Appleton Estate V/X. Forty pounder. Today.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1163915596107869852006-11-19T00:38:00.000-05:002006-11-19T00:53:16.116-05:00A new toyYesterday, I continued my domestic blitz and brought home a new toaster oven.
It's a model 1005 from KitchenAid. The formal model name is KCO1005OB. It comes in Onyx Black. I presume that's the trailing OB in the model name. Peculiarly, the <a href="http://www.kitchenaid.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=760">company product page</a> indicates that it is only available in Onyx Black.
Over at an online seller's site, <a href="http://www.chefscorner.com/web/catalog/product_detail.aspx?pid=155327&cm_ven=PriceGrabber&cm_cat=Small%20Electrics&cm_pla=KitchenAid&cm_ite=KitchenAid-Toaster%20Ovens-155327&cid=31F58004F21A3663101ABA95999C6D4A">KitchenAid Countertop Oven - KCO1005 : Chefs Corner</a>, there is evidently a red model — an Empire Red model. I would have bought that one had it been offered. Oh well. While it was more expensive than I'd like, I've had good experience with KitchenAid cookware so …
Since unpacking it, I have used it twice. First to toast a cheese bagel which worked sufficiently well. That's the first piece of decently toasted bread I've had in a year and a half. (Not necessarily a credit to the oven of course. It's more a lament over the inability of restaurants to actually toast their bread.)
Tonight I cooked a big meal. In the user guide, there are half a dozen recipes. One of them is for roasted vegetables. I didn't have all of them on hand — specifically the potatoes. So, I threw in a pile of celery, an onion and a pepper for 25 minutes while I cooked some ground beef, some sauce and pasta on the stovetop. Everything came out perfect.
So far so good.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1161501077416488462006-10-22T01:56:00.000-04:002006-10-23T03:42:00.573-04:00The Rice Cooker<p>I have now had my rice cooker for several weeks.</p>
<p>It is a <a href="http://zojirushi.com/ourproducts/ricecookers/ns_zcc.html">Zojirushi ZCC-10</a> rice cooker with Neuro Fuzzy logic driven cooking.</p>
<p>I am pretty happy with it thus far.</p>
<p>Of course, while everyone tells me that rice cookers automatically do things perfectly, I think that if you don't know what you are doing, it only works mindlessly when you don't do anything uncommon. For example, I have purchased various types of rice since then bringing the rice cooker home. Dainty's <a href="http://www.daintyrice.ca/eng/product.php?pid=3">Long Grain and Wild Rice</a>, their <a href="http://www.daintyrice.ca/eng/product.php?pid=1">Jasmine rice</a>, which I have yet to cook; two type of rice from <a href="http://www.lundberg.com/products/product_home.shtml">Lundberg</a>, a California producer — their <a href="http://www.lundberg.com/products/rice_og_wildblend.shtml">Wild Blend</a>, which is a gourmet blend of wild and whole grain brown rice and <a href="http://www.lundberg.com/products/rice_og_japonica.shtml">Black Japonica</a>, a field blend of gourmet black and mahogany rices. I am beginning to suspect that all of their rices are gourmet blends. Finally, some brown rice from another California producer, Tsuru Mai. An aside — I cannot find a website for the parent of Tsuru Mai, Nomura and Company although I have found numerous references to the company and its rice products.</p>
<p>The Black Japonica rice intrigues me. I have yet to cook it but I am looking forward to doing so. According to the company, the rice is grown mixed in the field. Years ago, an ex-girlfriend cooked some 'purple' rice that genuinely was purple and not particularly appetising to look at. Hopefully, the rice cooker will save me from any such discouraging meals.</p>
<p><blockquote cite="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E1D91E3EF932A25752C1A96E958260&sec=health&pagewanted=3">And then there are the Lundbergs, who will do just about anything. Short-grain, long-grain, red, mahogany, black or brown -- if it's rice, the Lundbergs will breed it and grow it. When a planting mistake gave them a field of speckled red rice, they simply harvested it and sold the motley package as Christmas Rice, touting its ''mysteriously musky flavor.''</blockquote></p>
<p>The one drawback to the machine is that it is fairly slow to cook complex rices. It generally takes over an hour to cook the Long Grain and Wild Rice as well as the Wild Blend. Then you have to let it sit for a while. One time, it took 100 minutes to cook the rice (plus the post-cooking time); this mangled my meal as I'd planned on it taking an hour and had cooked up a batch of other stuff which was then left to dry out and cool off. In my first attempt at the 'Wild Blend', I used the 'brown rice' setting and the result was somewhat soggy rice. For the second attempt, I used the 'semi-brown' setting and it came out well.</p>
<p>Part of what drove me to buy the blasted thing was that I feel that I eat too much pasta — which is probably my favourite food. A few months ago, I purchased some Uncle Ben's Spanish Rice but never cooked it. Then I bought something else from Uncle Ben, some kind of <a href="http://www.unclebens.ca/uncle_bens/products/01_rices_and_pastas/classiques_rice_selections/long_grain___wild_ric1/">wild rice food product</a>. I cooked it up and really enjoyed it. I find cooking rice on the stovetop to be more frustrating than I'd like. It requires me to pay attention which is something I am loathe to do.</p>
<p>A week or so later, I went to purchase some more rice and see what other offerings Uncle Ben had. While in the supermarket, I read the label for the wild rice product. It was chock-full of hydrogenated oils. Bleah!</p>
<p>I checked a couple of other speciality products from Uncle Ben and found they all had hydrogenated oils in them. This was a major downer. I've been eating Uncle Ben's Converted Rice since I was a young lad. I cannot remember not eating it. A decade or so ago, Uncle Ben's released some pasta sauce products. I tried them — they were great. Then they vanished. I guess I was the only one trying them out. I've always been a fan of their foods.</p>
<p>That day, I bought the Tsuru Mai brown rice. The only ingredient in the bag is, "California Medium Grain Brown Rice".</p>
<p>When I went home, I checked the Spanish Rice sitting in my cupboard. Amongst its ingredients was hydrogenated oils.</p>
<p>I find it both peculiar and frustrating that many of the major food producers seem to be increasing their use of hydrogenated oils when the health argument against them is almost overwhelming. I no longer buy crackers because I can't find any without hydrogenated oils. I stopped buying Humpty Dumpty's Cheese Sticks because they now contain hydrogenated oils. But, what the hell is a package of rice doing filled with hydrogenated oils?</p>
<p>As another aside, so many packaged nuts and trail mixes use hydrogenated oils for some reason. Bleah!</p>
<p>Anyways, after forty years of devouring Uncle Ben's rice, I think I'll look around at some alternatives. The rice cooker makes it easier to do this. Last week, I was visiting book stores — buying the Pasta Bible and perusing the Potato Bible and the Rice Bible. One of the interesting aspects to rice, as well as with potatoes, is that the food is available in so many varieties. I am now curious to try some Japanese pre-washed rice. Last week, I even bought some chopsticks although I have yet to try to use them — I am not always in the mood for frustration. Once I have finished some of the rice types I currently have, I'll try Dainty's Basmati rice. I have not knowingly tried it before.</p>
<p>While I was putting my various rice purchases away in the cupboard, and after reading the packaging for the Uncle Ben's Spanish Rice, I decided to throw the Spanish Rice away. I don't plan on buying any more and I won't even buy any 'pure' Uncle Ben's rice for the time being. I am not a fan of companies that force you to read their labels to ensure a minimal level of quality. "Buyer Beware" is not an effective sales method for a 'brand' company.</p>
<p>Yet another aside, a final one, this happened for me with Wrangler pants. I purchased a pair last year and wore them. They felt funny but … When I washed them, I saw the label. They were partially polyester. How can a jean company even think of trying to sneak polyester past their customers? I re-read the marketing label that I hadn't yet thrown away and saw no reference to the make-up of the textile. It was only when reading the manufacturing label inside the pants that I discovered this 'blend'. On the plus side, I have since purchase some pants from brands such as Savane and IZOD and don't feel that I'm missing anything without the Wranglers.</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1161496097398747452006-10-22T01:28:00.000-04:002006-10-22T01:54:20.463-04:00Relevance<blockquote>
<p>A Puzzle: The Economist's American Political Coverage</p>
<p>And the Opinion Mill: </p>
<blockquote> Opinion Mill: Amazing insights from The Economist: Thanks to Atrios and the alert uniformed attendants at Crooked Timber, I see The Economist has taken most of its content out from behind the firewall.</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p>When I was a young lad, my brother used to buy the Economist every week. He no longer does.</p>
<p>I used to read it regularly. I liked the magazine because it didn't feel as trite like Time/Newsweek/Macleans. (he says tritely…)</p>
<p>Then, some time ago, they wrote an article on some subject that I actually knew something about. I cannot remember what it was. The article discouraged me.</p>
<p>As an aside, this is similar to <a href="http://www.audio-ideas.com/">Andrew Marshall's Audio Ideas Guide</a> which I read until it reviewed an Aiwa stereo system that the store I worked at, Bay Bloor Radio, offered for sale. Whatever actually motivated the author, I could not help but think that the advertising dollars of Aiwa drove the article. I could not recognise the actual equipment in the review.</p>
<p>Anyways, I can no longer remember the last issue of the Economist that I have read. I don't visit their website.</p>
<p>After reading the <a href="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/10/a_puzzle_the_ec.html">blog entry</a> at Delong's site — in which reference is made to the freeing up of articles, I went ahead and visited economist.com. The browser window was empty. Well, it appeared to be empty. It was actually merely white. Something was there as the scroll bars were active. I don't know if it merely disapproves of Macs or perhaps, I have some browser setting that ensures that I will be denied access. I could change the setting and try again but, at this moment, I can't justify the effort. Maybe tomorrow.</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1160877241235574422006-10-14T21:39:00.000-04:002006-10-14T21:54:02.350-04:00Glory for SundinThe Toronto Maple Leafs just defeated the Calgary Flames at the Hangar.
The score was 5-4 in overtime.
A minute into overtime and the situation was dire as Darcy Tucker had just received a bogus penalty giving the Flames a power-play.
Sundin took the puck away from a Flame inside his blueline and then skated down the left wing, over centre and then the Calgary blueline. He then wired a shot into the roof of the net from about 70 feet out. The Calgary goalie was overwhelmed by the shot which was about as perfect as a shot can be.
The goal obviously won the game for the Leafs but it was a great personal moment for the Leafs' captain. The unassisted, short-handed, overtime game winner gave Sundin a hat-trick on the night and was the 500th goal of his career.
He doesn't need me to tell him how to play but I do wish he would shoot more. I don't think anyone on the team has as good a shot as he does.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1160365611515367182006-10-08T23:32:00.000-04:002006-10-22T04:19:44.813-04:00Zojirushi Rice Cooker<p>Last night, I purchased a rice cooker. This is the first one I've owned. It is a <a href="http://zojirushi.com/ourproducts/ricecookers/ns_zcc.html">Zojirushi NS-ZCC10</a> Neuro Fuzzy rice cooker and warmer.</p>
<p>As rice cookers go, it is quite expensive. I have been researching these things for several months now and I do not think that I've seen any that are more expensive than those this company produces. This is about fourth from the top in price however as there is a larger version of the same model, a designer model with fewer features and a larger and more advanced model that uses an induction heating system to cook the rice.</p>
<p>From the company's web site, I found a list of local retailers. This model was my second choice but no store in the city had my first choice, the Zutto.</p>
<p>After getting it home, it sat for a few hours before unpacking. It's quite large considering that it's the small model.</p>
<p>Eventually, I cranked it up and cooked myself some <a href="http://www.daintyrice.ca/eng/product.php?pid=3">Long Grain and Wild Rice from Dainty</a> using the brown rice settings. The rice came out great — even on the first attempt. That's pretty good for this type of creature.</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1157873688261175922006-09-09T23:14:00.000-04:002006-09-10T03:34:48.343-04:00Pearly BluesI bought my Apple PowerBook (1.67 GHz, 15" Aluminum) in the spring of last year. It was the first Bluetooth 2.0 creature that I was aware of.
While there have been developments in Bluetooth in the intervening year and a half, the arrival of the <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/09/07/blackberry_8100_pearl/">BlackBerry Pearl</a> is the first Bluetooth 2.0 device that I've seen since.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1156612803226578092006-08-26T13:15:00.000-04:002006-08-26T13:20:19.530-04:00Windows or Mac<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/08/steve_gibson_spinrite_creator_1.html">Steve Gibson (SpinRite creator, Anti-Spyware pioneer) "liking the Mac"</a>
<blockquote><p>It is an interesting phenomenon. A lot of people are looking to buy Macs so they can run Windows or because they think they need Windows. I think most of them will discover just like Mr. Gibson did, that Windows is an unnecessary part of their lives.</p>
<p>Zac | August 23, 2006 06:34 AM</p></blockquote>
Well said.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1156582312959905252006-08-26T04:18:00.000-04:002006-08-26T04:51:52.970-04:00BatteriesYesterday, I submitted a form for a replacement battery for my PowerBook.
There has been a lot of crap in the mac news lately on the matter.
<ul type="disc">
<li>At <a href="http://www.macnn.com/articles/06/08/24/apple.recalls.batteries/">MacNN</a></li>
<li>At <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2006/08/25/macs-on-a-plane/">TUAW</a></li>
<li>At <a href="http://support.apple.com/batteryprogram/">Apple</a></li>
<li>At <a href="http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml06/06245.html">U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission</a></li>
<li>At <a href="http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/safetyissues/topic4377.html">Macintouch</a></li>
</ul>
Some time ago, perhaps a year, there was an issue with certain batteries. I checked the serial number and it wasn't anywhere near those affected. This time however, it is. This is kind of weird since the battery is now well over a year old as I purchased the mac back in March 2005.
The battery works fine except that it doesn't last very long. It's not that it has diminished in its carrying capacity. It's just that it never lasted long. Oh well.
Perhaps I'll take into work tomorrow for something to do. It's much more enjoyable to play with than the work PCs are.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1155625839893732462006-08-15T02:43:00.000-04:002006-08-15T03:19:36.650-04:00A weird closing<p>Some moments ago, I submitted a comment in response to a post on another site. The site is <a href="http://www.scripting.com/">scripting.com</a> and the post was written by Dave Winer.</p>
<p>I closed my comment by saying, "Keep on learning".</p>
<p>I have never said such a thing before so having done so, and guessing it's too late to edit the comment, I am now left wondering what prompted me to end my comment that way.</p>
<p>After some reflection, my guess is this: I have been reading that site for a long time. I don't remember exactly when but I think I began reading it a couple of months, no more, after it opened up. Along with a site written by another Dave, David Siegel (who incidentally, <a href="http://dsiegel.com/diary/sept.4.96.html">linked to scripting.com back in '96</a>) titled, <a href="http://dsiegel.com/index.shtml">Welcome to my Casbah</a>, these were probably my first experiences with a journal style of online writing that came to be known as a weblog. Mr. Siegel ceased his online writing efforts in 1998, (since continued at a torpid pace) much to my regret but Mr. Winer has pushed his site along in a great way ever since. I continue to visit at least once a week. On my browser's home page, a page of links that resides on my local machine, I have his site listed prominently. While he may have geekish tendencies, his writing covers many subjects — my comments were a response to a posting on baseball's history. That is important to me.</p>
<p>Anyways, one of the reasons that I've continued to read his postings is that he really gives the reader a glimpse of the world through his own eyes. As this past decade or so has apparently involved his learning many new things (and subsequently doing many new things), I have gained my own exposure to those very same things. Had he ever put down his sword, had he been satisfied to do merely more of the same, he probably never would have launched scripting.com, nor would he have created blogging nor any of the other things in any of the other pots he's stirred over the years.</p>
<p>As such, I have benefitted from those efforts. If Mr. Winer continues to learn more and hence, do more, I am more than certain that I will continue to partake of those benefits. Besides, I think he enjoys learning.</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1155508394043008002006-08-13T18:27:00.000-04:002006-10-22T01:55:05.926-04:00Names and GamesSeveral years ago, there was a very popular computer game titled, "You don't know Jack".
I don't know where the title came from but today I was reading a top ten article at Kuro5hin and I saw the expression being used. Perhaps, this is the source.
<blockquote>Jack Shit: the magic ingredient
"It makes great garden soil. Take as much as you like. I haven't cleaned that jack pen in twenty fucking years."
Felonious Frank was staring at us like we were nuts.
Frank had four jack mules in his jack pen. Grok and I stared at each other in amazement. "You don't know jack shit." Grok blurted out while we set forth digging for gold. Felonious goes back to sawing timber in his sawmill…</blockquote>
Amusing.Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1153741301028901202006-07-24T07:41:00.000-04:002006-07-24T07:41:41.040-04:00Long WalkI just returned from a walk. My apartment stinks of cigar. LOLCanicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1153730771215782732006-07-24T04:32:00.000-04:002006-07-24T05:31:43.953-04:00Inexorable<p>Time marches on. I am now 42 years old. Relentlessly.</p>
<p>I sit here, a day later, or several hours at least, smoking a cuban cigar and drinking some Cointreau, contemplating my existence.</p>
<p>Romeo y Julieta, Romeo No. 1. It is not fresh but it is a treat. It's major flaw is that it gets soggy at one end. I'm not impressed with that. A colleague from work brought them back with him after visiting Cuba last fall. The flavour is okay; it's a little dry but that could be because it has been sitting on my shelf since last fall.</p>
<p>It amuses me that the hardest part about smoking this cigar was finding a match, or several, to light it. Thankfully, I still have a pack of woodens from the Firken.</p>
<p>I have just cut off one end. A soggy cigar is a failed experience.</p>
<p>Update, three inches long still and the cigar has gone out. Sigh!</p>
<p>postscript, if I'm gonna smoke these things, I'm gonna need an ashtray.</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1147561200520112992006-05-13T18:59:00.000-04:002006-05-13T19:00:00.536-04:00New Camino<p><a href="http://www.caminobrowser.org/">Camino 1.0.1</a> is newly released. So far so good.</p>
<p>I had a couple of recommendations for it — tiny ones — it appears that one of them was implemented.</p>
<p>Previously, in the cookies list, when you deleted a cookie, the list reset and moved your highlighted record to the top of the list. That meant you had to scroll back down to where you had been. Trivial but annoying.</p>
<p>With this new version, that doesn't happen. You stay where you were in the list. This means you don't have to selected multiple records to delete all at once. Small but good.</p>
<p>However, my recommendation to allow sorting by domain was not implemented. This is mildly disappointing. When my email was responded to, I was told that it already did it. It doesn't. The list can alphabetically sort the list. Unfortunately, that sort includes 'www' and anything else before the key portion of the domain. Thus, if you were to want to delete all of your 'msn.com' cookies, you have two choices. </p>
<p>You can filtre on 'msn' and then delete all. To do this on a grand scale, you would have to filtre on every domain that you didn't want. That still requires you to grind through the list from end to end and it also requires you to type in every domain and then to delete every domain.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can tediously work your way down the list. That means stopping at msn.com, c.msn.com, h.msn.com, www.msn.com, etc...</p>
<p>At this moment, I have four different cookie sets from 'about.com'. I have about.com, home.about.com, playstation.about.com and french.about.com.</p>
<p>If I could sort by domain, I could have all of the 'about.com' in a solid clump and quickly and easily select and delete them. That would be simple and efficient. Unfortunately, it's not simple.</p>
<p>Maybe next time.</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16759573.post-1145842440924472072006-04-23T21:33:00.000-04:002006-04-26T14:42:27.166-04:00Senators lose to Lightning<p>Some quirks about the Ottawa — Tampa Bay series: </p>
<p>These teams are fast. They're fast, and they're quick.</p>
<p>Ottawa's defense doesn't know what it means to, "take the man".</p>
<p>These teams are otherwise, well coached and smart.</p>
<p>It was seven and a half minutes into the third before that period's first icing call. That in a period without penalties.</p>
<p>Thus far, there have been zero off-side calls. Zero. The Leafs can't play for two minutes without going offside. Both teams, especially Tampa as they pay attention at both blue lines, work the line. Defensively, they make sure they clear the puck. Offensively, they time their passes and shoot-ins to lead the skaters. I've never seen a Leaf game without an off-side for this long. (Technically, I don't think that's true. I vaguely remember a game with about ten minutes of uninterrupted play. It was probably about 25 years ago.)</p>
<p>Both teams have creative players. Martin St. Louis' goal to give Tampa the lead in the third was a lovely goal except that competent defense would have prevented the play from developing. There was jumble of players at the Tampa blue line. St. Louis, from a standing start, took the puck and raced to the Ottawa end. Some other player gets the puck and pushes over the line. A real defenceman would have skated him in to the boards but Ottawa's didn't. St. Louis whipped around the net and came out at the left side of the crease – again, inside the defence – and hammered the puck into the net.</p>
<p>Thirteen minutes in, there was finally an off-side. I don't know the rules but the Ottawa goalie made a pass from a few feet above the goal line, across the ice where it was taken a foot into the Tampa Bay zone. The skaters feet were on-side. I don't know what makes that an off-side. Maybe a three line pass is forbidden.</p>
<p>Both the stickhandling and skating skill of these players far exceed that of the Leafs. St. Louis seems to pay absolutely no attention to where he is and several times, in tight quarters, he, while looking the other way, cut his turns with his skates probably no more than an inch from the boards. Figure skaters don't have that level of awareness.</p>
<p>Bob Cole booted one. For an entire play, he neglected to mention that the Ottawa goalie was on the bench. On the next play, he stated that the goalie would be on the bench for sure.</p>
<p>Tampa has an interesting style. Even when Ottawa was really applying the pressure, the goalie was not required to stand on his head to maintain the lead. Part of their play, and this applies also to Ottawa, is that their players are taking into account where other players are. They time things and understand how valuable it is to disrupt a pass or shot. Consequently, they break up a lot of promising plays before the goalie is needed.</p>
<p>Anyways, Lightning win 4-3 in a really fun game. The only thing missing was some stand-on-your-head goaltending.</p>
<p>p.s. Over the course of the third period, there were two icings and one off-side. Oh yeah, and three hits.</p>Canicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217656684215083255noreply@blogger.com0