I just noticed that the guy behind InstaCalc recently released a Vista Sidebar gadget. All the other calculator gadgets I’ve seen are horrible with a terrible UI and often requires me to explicitly use a mouse to enter in my calculations.
The Instacalc gadget is neat because answers are computed on the fly after every […]

You gotta love it when:

your blog server has a failure causing a complete outage
your webhosting company fixing it but coupling the resolution with ‘regular system maintenance’
them not telling you it will take over 5 hours to come back online

I love bluehost, but this was ridiculous. I discovered my blog was down yesterday at 10:30pm and […]

Twitter launched over a year ago and has over 50,000 subscribers. I’ve signed up, tried it and discarded it along with dozens of other “web 2.0″ ideas that have sprung up in the last few years. To me, it didn’t provide any value that I didn’t already derive from IM, email, SMS and […]

It suffices to say that I thought Pisa was a dump when Colene and I went there on a day trip from Florence. A quick 1 hour train ride and we walked through one of the most pitiful cities on our European tour. After getting our bearings, we made a bee line straight for the […]

It’s stuff like this that makes me proud to be both Canadian and from British Columbia.
The premier of British Columbia wanted to bring coal-burning plants and offshore oil rigs to this lush province, so environmental groups were ready for a fight as he prepared his government’s annual policy speech last month.
They were stunned when Premier Gordon […]