Computers

Aurora Nomination Overhaul

One of my major projects this year was helping update the Aurora Awards website (the Aurora’s are Canada’s SF/F fan-voted awards).  I’d like to say it was because I am SOOOOO selfless, but really, I won an Aurora last year and I wanted the website to...

I’ve moved…

…servers.  As my faithful readers will note (all three of you), I had stopped posting.  The reason was simple — my server was so slow and ponderous that it actually was painful for me to post anything.  So, Brian let me come over to his server.  So we...

Welcome to the Mesh

I found my harddrive.  Seems it ended up in the Girl’s playdough basket.  Um, yeah.  But still, ever since I lost it, I realized I needed a NEW backup solution.  The external harddrive, while convenient at times, had its limitations.  Most obvious — it was...

Netbooks

I couldn’t live without having another toy (and I buy them so infrequently…really).  And now that I’ve purged the Lenovo laptop…I had some extra cash in my pocket (I get a computer allowance from my work).  So I picked out a netbook (think of...

What’s with the site?

I upgraded to WordPress, an open source content management tool (think Firefox, Linux, or Open Office for blogging).  It took a while to import the old database (MS-Access) and it wasn’t completely accurate (some of the comments were lost, as were accompanying...

The Timbit

Timbit gate. The war of the doughnuts. A timbit has grabbed the media’s attention. London Free Press today. The headline reads: Woman fired from Tim Hortons for giving Timbit to Baby. This is a local story (local to London, that is) about one of those...