Successful strategies for commenting your code
Blarg. I’ve been bad.
Digital Black and White
Black and White with a digital camera
An article outlining a few techniques for taking a digital photograph in colour and converting it to black and white.
In the woods
I’ve ventured off into the woods for a few days. Posting is unlikely. Be wary of comments by spam bots — they want to sell you fruit baskets and pills for various dysfunctions.
Gone camping image is courtesy of my mad skills in Paint. The ugly orangification of the the picture was courtesy of photoshop (a somewhat failed attempt at working with the shiny new colour scheme). A copy of the original is available.
There should be photos posted on tuesday or wednesday.
Color Blender
ColorBlender
Damn good tool for coming up with quick and dirty colour schemes.
No ping wait plugin
No ping wait plugin for WordPress
Gets rid of one of those minor annoyances when you use the actual WP interface for posting
High-speed cat photos
High-speed cat photos
We are not alone.
Wine drinkers of the world
I’m working on a little project. I need a few people who like wine and drink at least a couple of bottles a month. It would also be helpful if you have a website, but that’s not entirely neccessary.
It’s hopefully going to be a nice easy way to keep track of the wines that you’ve been drinking. And also a way to get recommendations for new bottles to try out. Leave a comment or drop me a line if you’re interested.
Demystifying Diet Coke
Demystifying Diet Coke
The ‘normal’ variety is based on the recipe for New Coke rather than Classic.
RFID for border crossings
The US is going to start tagging Canadians with RFID tags
My incentive to go to the states has dropped even further — this crossing is in my neck of the woods. Automating security is not necessarily an improvement, it’s just lazy.
Marc sees the light
Marc has seen the light and jumped to WordPress
That and he has a slick new 3-column layout.