Brent Rockwood

I’m deadly with a Sharpie.  I also sometimes use them to draw stuff.  Here are some pictures of friends of mine.  You know who you are.
 

I was on my way out for a walk in Point Pleasant Park when I picked up the Sunday Herald.  In it, they had a photography article talking about how colours are muted in winter.
My cellphone camera and I respectfully disagree. 

Unfortunately, you can’t buy a Sun Blackbox just yet.  But APC’s got you covered with the InfraStruXure Express.  Holy sh*t.
Of course, if that’s not your cup of tea, you can always go virtual.

According to my calculations, if every man, woman, and child in Canada were to go out and replace 1200 incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents we would meet our Kyoto targets.
I think I’m going to have to come up with a better plan.

February 18-24 is National Engineers Week in the US.  Here are some engineering jokes.
Remember,
An optimist sees the glass half full.The pessimist sees the glass half empty.The engineer sees the glass is twice as large as it needs to be.

I only got a chance to see a few shows last year, as the ECMA’s were in Charlottetown and we only went over for the night (had a blast, though!).  This year the awards have come back to Halifax and there’s a ton to see and do.  On Thursday night I went to Tribeca to [...]

Windows Dreamscene technical preview showed up in Ultimate Extras this morning.  It only comes with one video, though you can use any wmv or mpeg videos you happen to have lying around.  It appears to use about 30-40% CPU on my 1.73GHz Pentium M based laptop.  That’s a bit much for me to leave it [...]

 
In addition to all the unscheduled outages, my power company schedules time to piss off its online customers.  Way to go guys.

In Internet Explorer 7, set one of your security zones to the medium-high security setting.
On the same machine, import the security settings into a GPO (In GpEdit, select User Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Internet Explorer Maintenance -> Security -> Security Zones and Content Ratings -> Import the current[...]settings)
On a non-Vista machine, use GPMC to [...]

It tasted just as good as it looks.
I’m learnin’.