Archive for February, 2007
Rands has an article up today with some good advice for getting your resume looked at. Having been in a position where I was regularly looking through piles of resumes, and having recently been on the job market myself, I completely agree with a lot of what he suggests. The one suggestion I disagree with [ READ MORE ]
Today was my first day at my new job with Covarity. As far as first days go, it was pretty typical (introductions, setting up my computer, some training), but pretty positive. The (Superficially) Good: an Aeron chair a brand new Intel Core 2 Duo machine that compiles at amazing speeds two LCD monitors Call of [ READ MORE ]
Lord of the Rings Online currently has a stress test going on, though there’s about a 4gb client download and it ends tomorrow so you’ll need to hurry if you think you’d like to try it out. It also looks like there’s a bigger beta program you can sign up for, but I don’t know [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday was my last day at D2L. I went out after work to The Still – an establishment I would recommend only for it’s beer and wings, and the fact that it’s pretty much the only place to go in downtown Kitchener – and it was nice to see how many people stopped by for [ READ MORE ]
I’ve set up FeedBurner on the rss feeds to feed my stats-loving demons. If I set up my .htaccess file correctly, no one should notice a thing. I hope? If for some reason things are broken, leave me a comment and I’ll try to fix it up. For my own reference, or for anyone else [ READ MORE ]
The Globe and Mail has an amazingly one-sided article on the front page today, suggesting that Canada is somewhere in the realm of “criminally negligent” in it’s copyright laws. A powerful coalition of U.S. software, movie and music producers is urging the Bush administration to put Canada on an infamous blacklist of intellectual property villains, [ READ MORE ]
Update (because I confused myself): I realized today that this post was marked as “private” and that no one could see it… I’m not clear on whether that means it was never published (in which case, my comments in my FeedBurner post will have been lacking some context) or if I just screwed things up [ READ MORE ]
My grandfather, Samuel Henry “Harry” Price passed away on the 4th, which is why Cressa and I were in Owen Sound this week. He was 98 (almost 99!) and had been in declining health for a while so it wasn’t a surprise, but obviously sad nonetheless. He’d had his ups and downs over the past [ READ MORE ]
Cressa and I were up in Owen Sound for the past couple days, and very nearly didn’t get to leave. Between Monday and Thursday, Owen Sound got something like 70cm of snow. The picture below is from Tuesday morning after the first batch and before we arrived; we got about the same amount each of [ READ MORE ]
It’s an unfortunate situation: I’ve been wanting to write more about my experiences with Final Fantasy XII, but I’ve been spending so much time playing Final Fantasy XII (close to 50 hours now!) that I haven’t had time. But no more! If I were to boil everything good about the game down to one idea, [ READ MORE ]