Category Archives: General

Erica did her first Ferris wheel on Canada day. Boy was it fun

Capuccino I made this am.

Here is a video showing something we’ve been working on at QNX.

Our team at QNX has finished Aviage MM 1.2. Its got some excellent features and new platforms that it supports. Notably: DVD-V playback Video file playback Microsoft Zune support Significant improvements to Album Art support Significant improvements to metadata synchronization … Continue reading →

Thought I’d share two photos with you. Click on the image for a bigger version.

So far so good, my laser eye surgery is looking good. Today is the follow up where they can check if it is healing well, but I can see although things are touch blurry and foggy still. That’s supposed to … Continue reading →

Heather and I got a new BBQ this weekend from BBQing in Ottawa. The people there were great and persuaded me to spend a bit more for a quality machine. Two nights in and we’re really happy with the results. … Continue reading →

Google Voice is going to go live soon in the US. This looks like a really cool service that would allow me to distance myself from cia.com a little. In case you don’t know, cybersurf sucks a lot at what … Continue reading →

I really liked this video by Zack Arias. Winter is ending soon and I plan to spend some time outside shooting again.

This is pretty wild, you have to read this [new york times article about munition sales](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/world/asia/27ammo.html?_r=3&ex=1364270400&%23038;en=c04d358a662752c5&%23038;ei=5090&%23038;partner=rssuserland&%23038;emc=rss&%23038;pagewanted=all&%23038;oref=slogin&%23038;oref=slogin&oref=slogin “Supplier Under Scrutiny on Arms for Afghans – New York Times”). To quote from the beginning of the article: > Since 2006, when the … Continue reading →

Good news, Heather is pregnant! The due date is October 19th which makes heather currently 10 weeks. She’s doing very well except for some nausea but hopefully that will pass soon. Today we met with our midwife, she was excellent. … Continue reading →

A good friend and university professor of mine, Bruce Firestone, wrote a [great article about not owning a cell phone](http://www.eqjournalblog.com/?p=55 “The EQ Journal Blog » Re-Thinking the Cell Phone”). I haven’t had a cell phone for over a year now.. … Continue reading →

It’s a crazy amount of snow we’re getting in Ottawa this year. I’ve shoveled about 1 and a half feet of snow both days this weekend. As you can see from the following pictures, the back yard is buried (with … Continue reading →

I work at QNX Software Systems where lots of exciting things are coming from these days. QNX released several new technical videos to YouTube today. Mine included is posted there, although mine isn’t that technical yet its good to start … Continue reading →

Carl Sagan’s content is very interesting. Often its very straight forward common sense, sometimes it puts things in perspective (Billions and Billions) and other times it can be harder to understand but he does as good a job as any … Continue reading →

Idiocracy is a great movie, the whole premise of the movie is that the human race is evolving to be unintelligent by over-breeding of those not so bright folks, and lack of breeding by smart people. Here is a funny … Continue reading →