On The Other Hand

Finally!  Powershelly goodness for Windows Vista.  Get your script on here.

So today is the day that Microsoft unleashes windows Vista on the masses.  I’m sure you’ll hear about it on every blog and tech site for the next week or so.  Anyhow, I’ve had it for a couple of months now, and I’ve been waiting for this day for two reasons: Dreamscene (just for the [...]

Reading my Saturday Globe and Mail, I came across the following quote from our very own Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, Mayann Francis:
Self-help reading list: “[Rick Warren's] The Purpose Driven Life.  The book enhanced my own beliefs that we are here for a purpose.  It deals with religious and spiritual themes, which struck a response [...]

We were discussing university days when Steve came out with this hilarious quote…
I don’t understand economics.  They come up with these incredibly complex equations with derivatives and integrals and all this crazy math and then they just plug shit in.

I mentioned earlier I had installed Microsoft OneCare Live (beta) on my main Vista laptop.  After giving it the old college try, I finally uninstalled it in favor of a slightly less comprehensive solution.  Yesterday I installed Trend Micro AntiVirus 2007 which seems to be fairly awesome.  Despite the fact that it updates every five [...]

I was recently looking at a calendar of holidays around the world and an interesting point struck me.  Take, for example, Canada Day.  Canada Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada on July 1’st.  However, if plotting it on an international calendar, when does it occur?  Well, Canada spans six time zones which are [...]

Nice to know I work for a company with a sense of humor.

Tim just published a fragment that talks about the fragility of web links and a possible solution.  I think it’s a fabulous idea.  I’ve often had similar thoughts when constructing links.

I installed Windows Live OneCare on my primary Vista laptop on Friday.  I’m looking for some good Vista antivirus and the Symantec product (also beta) didn’t impress me.  Given that I’ve only used it for one day, here are my first impressions.

It tells me it can’t finish installing because it needs to connect to the internet [...]

So Tim, Sam, Dare, Don,
Lots of people are clearly trying to work around the same-domain restriction that most browser developers have built into XmlHttpRequest. A quick Google search will reveal lots of ways to manipulate the DOM that will probably work. Canaries and other server side techniques appear to be the appropriate answer to this [...]