The Curious Engineer

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2003–2005

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December 2005

  1. Happies!
  2. Nano’s Manxes
  3. wan nuhin nuhin wan
  4. Meet Mr Random
  5. Reindeer roasting on an open fire
  6. Wet Christmas
  7. A little Irish festive spirit
  8. best o’ 2005
  9. Uncle article in The Economist
  10. manitoulin sunset
  11. Toronto Subway Station GPS Locations, now in GPX
  12. palm crash
  13. Chilly
  14. “The clean air choice of Earth Day Canada.”
  15. How to stay warm, #1: The World’s Longest Serial Cable
  16. Toronto Subway Station GPS Locations
  17. london’s mean trick
  18. Pencils of 2005
  19. corvettesnowmobile
  20. Stewart’s long walk
  21. cheap powermeter
  22. I (heart) languagehat
  23. Dun Law Attitude Change
  24. well, that was easy, maybe
  25. saturday night with the resisters
  26. go 1and1!
  27. the disgruntled cyclops in your computer
  28. m@b reads my blog!
  29. this isn’t the same Edinburgh as I know
  30. the monopoly on free money
  31. EcoBunk Unplugged: the 15th Annual EcoBunk Awards
  32. TTC Subway: Pape to Chester, 4pm
  33. it’s snowing
  34. Rockbox rocks my iriver
  35. Schultze Gets The Blues
  36. Stuffin’ it since the days of the Neanderthals
  37. The Scarborough Popular Front
  38. grown up
  39. Bill, the Area Man
  40. big windfarm, big deal
  41. Happy Birthday …
  42. oh no, canada!
  43. Uncle excerpt: The Fun Fair

November 2005

  1. new donut pretender
  2. we’re shite and we … invented the modern world
  3. happy desktop
  4. QuickBooks timer = teh w31rd
  5. OS bad craziness
  6. take yourself to Guelph!
  7. found book
  8. Goodbye, Star Wars Tree
  9. music of 2005
  10. caribou
  11. new, improved brunswick
  12. Ontario RFP II
  13. http://holymodalrounders.com/
  14. O turbine thou art sick
  15. get yer avant-cabaret on
  16. you can’t hear the join
  17. look ma, no wires!
  18. An evening with Mr Gosse
  19. Ivor Cutler: Glasgow Dreamer
  20. completely not feeling the love for the iPod Shuffle
  21. no, I don’t get this, either
  22. aargh, why’d ya do it
  23. What’s with the Council of Canadians, eh?
  24. iPod Shuffle: meh
  25. … but he is about to use an angle grinder
  26. the Wawa Plume – it’s pollutionalicious!
  27. halloween fallout

October 2005

  1. something went wrong
  2. queen west
  3. sparkly!
  4. IEEE Toronto Talk
  5. wild east gone west?
  6. best e-mail disclaimer ever
  7. really winter
  8. canwea over
  9. review of CanWEA 2005 swag bag
  10. decemberists
  11. Echidna Afraid of Spooning
  12. the search for fair trade coffee @ SB’s
  13. hitting the 400k-clicks
  14. Debunking the 25% Myth
  15. timely quotation
  16. Software Paul didn’t think of …
  17. Nasty Natto from The Sneeze
  18. Desktop Manager
  19. my last adbusters
  20. Winter
  21. the “do not clue” list
  22. 3D Death Chase, courtesy Jasper
  23. Geourl
  24. ex dexit, or trying to be
  25. keepin’ it, since 3760 BCE
  26. onward and upward, etc
  27. thank you for the music
  28. i didn’t throw the pebble
  29. blog entry for dad

September 2005

  1. all around the lakes
  2. i think i’m supposed to have arrived now
  3. knitters wanted, some travel required
  4. no cheers for VIA Rail
  5. world’s slowest USB
  6. R. Bruce Hoadley says …
  7. The $99 network printer
  8. Zoë says …
  9. I hate Sony
  10. crossing sonar
  11. mmm, pencilly goodness
  12. fido sms e-mail
  13. Blair’s Blog
  14. King Cutler
  15. Quigmans.com
  16. Mozilla Update :: Extensions: New Tab Homepage
  17. esr@microsoft.com?
  18. popular stairs
  19. Tiger’s Dictionary
  20. My Private Tel Aviv
  21. Luxpro Super Tangent iPod Shuffle Clone
  22. Bullfrog Power
  23. Spamusement!
  24. Mics
  25. Urpy
  26. corn dog
  27. the pencils in my life
  28. there is no mini
  29. Caravel – the Mennonite CMS
  30. dvds by mail
  31. Rolser shopping cart
  32. batch renaming iTunes directories
  33. it’s toast
  34. I (still) believe in bugs
  35. Morning GO Trains, Union Station, Toronto
  36. 1/9/XX, and the smell of new pencils
  37. sorry, little dude
  38. clicking like the trilobite
  39. how much do Of Montreal rock my tiny world?

August 2005

  1. and all was quiet
  2. keyed up
  3. pech pech
  4. timmantra
  5. importing mail from Mozilla Thunderbird on Linux to Mac
  6. Yup
  7. it’s a pencil blog
  8. liquor CD?
  9. Hey Stinky!
  10. tim test
  11. ididn’tBook
  12. great work of fiction
  13. dealbreakers
  14. windfarm or wind farm?
  15. !”?! it
  16. CanWEA 2005
  17. Sturmey-Archer
  18. my lappy is not well
  19. The demented mind of Adam Elliot
  20. the ruglonian conspiracy
  21. It’s pouring at Erie Shores
  22. the missing
  23. CBC News: Canadian Blood Service drops restrictions on donors who lived in Britain and France
  24. This is only funny if you’re Scottish …
  25. I’ve seen ’em; have you?
  26. Something to warm the cockles of Big Dave H’s heart
  27. velcro cable tie = bike parking brake
  28. light anemometer
  29. $14.59 USD
  30. cornflakes and cheez whiz
  31. waiting for dogot
  32. it’s cold, it’s pointy, it’s 70°32’S 64°57’W!
  33. Smog City TO
  34. failing to excel
  35. feedmap
  36. teh wide!
  37. Begging the question
  38. Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC review
  39. everything I know about capitalism I learnt from Enron and DopeWars …
  40. Owies
  41. Slow Loris Research
  42. most. annoying. spamfilter. EVAH!
  43. teh k1ng ov wrenches
  44. Fat Spaniel Technologies: Energy Monitoring
  45. 195.40.200.222 does not like Common Era
  46. the moving image

July 2005

  1. Whether Or Not We Care, It Shows!
  2. histamine overreaction
  3. How to make Windows suck 10001 fewer times: AllChars
  4. What’s That Bug?
  5. name on file
  6. not sensible, just lovely
  7. Reverend Rico’s Travelling Roadshow
  8. John Herald, RIP
  9. breaking ground at Erie Shores
  10. Mural, in progress, Kennedy Station
  11. Ontario Wind Resource Atlas
  12. from the earth to the moon, from the earth to the moon …
  13. death of a dongle, again
  14. rise of the kidult
  15. raw spirit, it rips war
  16. uh oh
  17. my other PC is also wind-powered
  18. not there
  19. corgi with an IV
  20. sensible != boring
  21. Ontario Electricity RFP III: return of the small projects
  22. search for the sensible bicycle, pt317
  23. mini-itx progress
  24. feed that spacing!
  25. ndiswrapper = teh roxx0r
  26. Heartlands
  27. hung up, hanging on the line
  28. BCG, RIP
  29. 45 hours, you’re spammed!
  30. epia = teh h0sed
  31. experiment

June 2005

  1. it lives … IT LIVES!!!
  2. £2100 … for a two-speed?
  3. there is no nuclear revival
  4. Hovis Presley, 1960 – 2005
  5. phones in receivership
  6. back to school
  7. more cheapeats joy
  8. not 2.6
  9. 2.6
  10. very small PC
  11. the glasgow taxi outings
  12. danger sign
  13. Is today the happiest day?
  14. teddybeardog
  15. Is this your hearse? Yearse!
  16. Rick Mercer’s Blog
  17. good stuff from kennedy road and mississauga?
  18. solstice tristesse
  19. magicwindy
  20. … in which Stewart actually does something
  21. I don’t know what these flowers are
  22. say something, anything …
  23. All Is Not Green At The Viridian Design Online Store
  24. Treehugger: vote for me!!!
  25. Sam Hinton, et al
  26. Goslings making the most of any water at Kennedy Commons
  27. wide angles ‘r us
  28. Dissing the discmen
  29. Electrified!
  30. “I cannot tell a Soft”
  31. more web file managers
  32. windows is killing usability, pt. 314
  33. aargh, my eyes, my eyes!
  34. CanWEA: SmallWind: Small Wind Turbines
  35. Panamatic
  36. Unwanted at the yard sale
  37. p100 sensor size
  38. Lego, ergo sum
  39. ooh, toy …
  40. compose yourself!
  41. lone go
  42. Kennedy Go Station works
  43. now reading: Jean Shepherd
  44. a bit bitey

May 2005

  1. selling stuff on ebay
  2. the anti-anti-windfarm backlash
  3. black smoke
  4. the old laptop / a new kernel / a new laptop!
  5. new D70 firmware
  6. critter day
  7. canadians++
  8. filesystem error mashup
  9. lost pitt pen
  10. BBC NEWS | Scotland | Canal freight plan takes to water
  11. the so-called alleged memory error
  12. a picture of mine, on treehugger
  13. Listed on BlogShares
  14. otnay osay ightbray: Shop manager broke into own store
  15. strange inscription
  16. broken bird
  17. canadian moment
  18. Industrial Flower Factory
  19. and very decemberist they were, too
  20. yay, decemberists!
  21. burlington beer
  22. happy mailing : Blat online
  23. Zoë’s wee horse
  24. Cute, or what?
  25. bad data day
  26. faster mac
  27. TTC Subway Rider Efficiency Guide
  28. Plaintive GO Train phone
  29. paranoiac-critical turtle
  30. Oh say kha-nyou see …?
  31. ride comes before a foal
  32. kennedy a go go
  33. sometimes I wish awk had a print-range operator
  34. cheap RAM in Burlington
  35. Swift Turbine Specs Look Dubious
  36. emma chisit?
  37. Stewart’s Images :: The destruction and salvation of Warden PowerCentre
  38. bad cables / wasted power
  39. mmm, detroit
  40. now *not* reading
  41. how did those losers win again?
  42. Chickens are not the only fruit
  43. PHPFileExchange
  44. get yer fives on!
  45. slow build
  46. the new antediluvianism
  47. The price of democracy in the UK: $50.42
  48. teh 734
  49. my true fortune
  50. this is not my galaxy

April 2005

  1. wind turbines from space
  2. hoser cordon bleu reflection, eh
  3. mister e incorporated, that’s what they call him
  4. o o ==== o o
  5. RIP Hasil Adkins
  6. gap delete bummer
  7. clipping
  8. democracy can be so tiresome
  9. of montreal, rightful rulers of the universe
  10. tea jenny
  11. Chance encounters on the Ivor Cutler list
  12. I found a flyer on the subway …
  13. Pepys’ Diary
  14. this used to be on my commute
  15. Happy Earth Day
  16. Burlington doesn’t need another Wal-Mart
  17. guns suck
  18. Egg Meat
  19. Just Browse Stuff: Google Catalogs
  20. sad-boy old-skool 8-bit ring tone
  21. actually found something on itunes
  22. New Ontario Wind RFP
  23. Massive Yawn
  24. bowled over? Assault with a deadly weapon, more like
  25. needed another box
  26. failing to work just out of the box
  27. this moment, slightly used
  28. link brings Fair Isle into the 21st century
  29. no more comic strip
  30. wildlife warden
  31. CBC.ca = teh b0rken
  32. old-school electronics
  33. Canadian Citizenship CIT 0002 Absence Calculator
  34. positively brisling with joy
  35. Why I’m Allergic To ‘Cradle To Cradle’
  36. do you … enjoy … knives?
  37. Phew 2
  38. For the TTC strike: ATU 113 – Contact List
  39. like the constipated mathematician …
  40. ‘Robyn Hitchcock and His Sadies’ – Toronto date announced
  41. taxing times
  42. Toronto transit workers to strike Monday
  43. revenge of the daylight-saved
  44. not top dollar
  45. bad scene chesterday
  46. not quite the worst cartoon ever
  47. Robyn Hitchcock & His Sadies
  48. atomic clock error
  49. million meat march
  50. new icon
  51. a sensible bike from a car company?
  52. beware of the tabs ‘cos I’m sure they’re going to get you yeh
  53. 3 years
  54. no fish on me
  55. ugly-ass car
  56. The year of not competing

March 2005

  1. Thank You For Not Striking
  2. Pilot-DB Open Source Database Program for PalmOS
  3. my car karma, shot
  4. new favourite white chocolate
  5. pretty stinky kitty
  6. road tripped over
  7. this is more like it
  8. decemberists tix!
  9. leaving st louis
  10. gone fishin’
  11. decemberists’ Trailer, Stolen
  12. now writing with …
  13. well, don’t blame *me* for these …
  14. new category: WAGDAIYF
  15. where are the hybrids for hire?
  16. Red
  17. Ryan is in the house
  18. my Rs, they are
  19. tim gotta dexit
  20. my wind-powered PC
  21. it’s spring, I think …
  22. book no fair
  23. Wind Energy, Appropriate Energy
  24. S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
  25. urban critter
  26. Farewell, Mayor McCA
  27. concrete Picaresque
  28. stewart speaks!
  29. Toronto Spring Bike Show
  30. Aargh, couriers! %^$%&$!!!
  31. National Engineering Week

February 2005

  1. Well, if you can’t trust the government …
  2. Yay Chris Landreth!
  3. approaching the sensible bicycle
  4. pencils, pencils, PENCILS!!
  5. music nite!
  6. first groundhog siting of the year!
  7. The Passing of The Grammarian
  8. Edinburgh residents reject congestion charge
  9. Union Station, 0748: Is it a cow?
  10. Where were you when you heard that Hunter S. Thompson was dead?
  11. cycling madly
  12. Strindberg and Helium
  13. stewart + moleskine = teh d33p d00d
  14. sleep-in friday
  15. So I’m a word nerd …
  16. Happy Kyoto Day!
  17. Well, that was painless …
  18. Don’t try this at all: Microwave Storm In A Teacup
  19. new lemon jelly!!!!!!!!!1111111111!!
  20. CIC Canada | Citizenship Applications
  21. Heeee’s the maaaaan with the goooolden guuuuun…
  22. MP3: Robyn Hitchcock: Demos and Rough Sketches – October 1990
  23. When astroturfing a blog, don’t do it from the office …
  24. Modern Moist Towelette Collecting
  25. Catherine’s Favourite Pedestrian Crossing
  26. RIP Talk Energy
  27. personal BND today
  28. why i hate windows …
  29. linksys, bittorrent, and ports
  30. happy ears!
  31. bad Boing Boing! no cookie!
  32. Notice of Winter Smog Watch
  33. biccyepiphany
  34. The Day of The Groundhog
  35. Are You A Happy Carrot?
  36. old style new tunes
  37. iPod Shuffle works under Linux

January 2005

  1. How To Fix A Crashed & Screaming QuickBooks Timer
  2. got it bad
  3. We’re going to die out, you know that?
  4. “Ah, but what *version* of PhotoShop did the accused use?”
  5. If Burlington = 95, Toronto = ??
  6. bird, ice
  7. Meddal: Linux in Welsh
  8. Oh yeah, and what does *this* mean?
  9. No tourism for you
  10. 3hive: Of Montreal
  11. Today, I am 13000
  12. ice dog
  13. 12 hours to Burns night
  14. Atanarjuat does the chores
  15. still life, by camera phone
  16. Colin Meloy РCaf̩ du Nord, San Francisco, CA Р16 January 02005
  17. Bob The Angry Flower RSS Feed (beta)
  18. … but my python’s gotta eat too, y’know.
  19. Lemmings — in DHTML!
  20. my name, like transit
  21. Halifax Airport is officially pants
  22. pennerd
  23. catherine’s site
  24. Rocker on Code Optimisation
  25. YEP, Toronto
  26. Quest for the Lama on the B766
  27. The Moogle Project
  28. thinkpad t21, linux 2.4.28-gentoo-r5, and ACPI
  29. Sharp Centre by twilight
  30. i r00l (a bit)
  31. Uncle Doug’s gift of a journey
  32. The Decemberists, Lee’s Palace – 6 June 2004
  33. 99 years out of code: Y2K was so five years ago
  34. I’m calling you from JAIL!!!
  35. Owen and Mzee
  36. MonstreX Ultra: monster repellant
  37. joiner panorama: OCAD
  38. i demand my 1,3,7-trimethylxanthine!
  39. fusion snack

2004 435

December 2004

  1. Oates-y goodness: Spot of the Antarctic
  2. yet more unfunny faux-Scotticisms
  3. in, but not of, Montréal
  4. bad, naughty Zach!
  5. There’s no justice
  6. Yeah, like we believed him anyway
  7. blue camera
  8. i c icicles
  9. This is not for trainspotters
  10. ‘s no’ fair
  11. mmmm, croissants …
  12. strange, strange dreams
  13. more gmail invitations
  14. DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
  15. pas des singes en cuivre, mate
  16. m4p2mp3 – helper to turn an iTunes protected m4p to an mp3
  17. no ‘ole
  18. Ole
  19. and this makes news in Scotland: Krankie hurt in beanstalk tumble
  20. Just their two cents …
  21. toronto skaters
  22. now that’s what I call an URL!
  23. pen perfect
  24. drain, pt2
  25. aarggh! delivery.ca and pizzaville.ca suck monkey bum!!
  26. pride comes before a Phaal
  27. Drain
  28. cbc.ca goes RSS
  29. But how can fish stand?
  30. blackspotsneaker
  31. Good Activism Guide, from an unexpected source
  32. Tablet on Wikipedia
  33. Aria + FlashGot = Linux Firefox Download Happiness
  34. Rumo
  35. small change, again
  36. My Best of 2004
  37. iTunes out, I does
  38. your spiny little buddy
  39. End Of Suburbia As We Know It
  40. baaaaaarp!
  41. Single Serve Coffee.com – why?!
  42. i like to caress rusty cameras …
  43. iriver corporate nonsense
  44. Quite failing to wave my hands in the air
  45. b.log III
  46. Smiling Envelope?!
  47. livemp3 – convert those big old audio torrents to something listenable
  48. get mini
  49. happy st andrew’s day!

November 2004

  1. Kansas City by night
  2. World Scotch Pie champion named
  3. The Accidental Terrorist
  4. too much meat in cowtown
  5. I bought some art
  6. I can tell you now!
  7. Blog Torrent – Simplified bittorrent by Downhill Battle
  8. gmail message limit
  9. Scotland hands Canada the smackdown
  10. Wild East is cool
  11. call me Imelda … or Carrie
  12. peut être ouvert d’office, peut être?
  13. John Milloy responds
  14. MetaFilter open!
  15. points you see, points you don’t
  16. can’t tell anyone!
  17. We saw some cows
  18. CF Card Undelete for Linux
  19. Ol’ Pointy-Nose Is Back …
  20. An RSS generator for CBC Channels
  21. the tubes group
  22. Snoozing gently
  23. bad and wrong things about Firefox and Thunderbird
  24. objectivity
  25. too much information
  26. Don’t make me wear that eggbox …
  27. Why does John Milloy hate cyclists?
  28. let it …
  29. Brautiganish
  30. NRG Symphonie SQL
  31. See my blog getting burninated …
  32. SVG clip art
  33. NewsIsFree: all the news you could ever want
  34. Kitchen Stories
  35. feed on feeds
  36. Mozilla more than a third
  37. no white poppies
  38. Muppets!! On Stamps!!!
  39. Remember, Remember …
  40. meet anna phylactic
  41. car + greenwash = carwash?
  42. “I Voted”, or something
  43. Winsome Newsom
  44. Well, you know what you need to do today …
  45. torrent: Mayor McCA, Lee’s Palace, 18 June 2004

October 2004

  1. Happy Samhain!
  2. Dough D’oh!
  3. torrent: Circulatory System – Lee’s Palace, Toronto – 13 April 2003
  4. They’ll turn white soon enough
  5. LinuxCaffe
  6. orkut has difficulties
  7. big win for Ontario Renewables
  8. The return of Mr Nae Friends
  9. Hey Kids, It’s The Coalition of Negligence!
  10. my digicam’s better than your digicam
  11. Some edition required
  12. Peely’s dead
  13. Scooby-Doo breaks cartoon record
  14. Stewart’s Quest for the Sensible Bicycle
  15. Big Pink Car
  16. Eyetap wins Coram Design Award
  17. “If there’s one thing I really, really hate …”
  18. Not Wilde About It
  19. JustBlogIt with a simple right-click.
  20. spam action
  21. Bagel
  22. the servers cannae take it
  23. my brain is melting
  24. noneofmp3.com
  25. thanksgiven
  26. kanguq monday
  27. art by the wayside
  28. Uncertain Slogan
  29. HCP UK drops Eddie Moore
  30. neither canadian, nor dry
  31. Sharing images between WordPress and Gallery
  32. overly cute desk accessory
  33. yay, yay, IPA!
  34. car bong
  35. let’s get confused
  36. 40 + 40 = 43 ?
  37. I had a little folderblog …
  38. no bank
  39. magical thinking in Scarborough
  40. Ex bat
  41. No, we really did!
  42. Radio Silence
  43. not bloody likely
  44. More Gnu Smugness: Give me help when I want it
  45. fastest TTC journey ever
  46. Not that I do, of course
  47. frail out!
  48. why I hate windows, part 314
  49. first frost, and deer
  50. wee heidbanger
  51. Avoiding Copy-Protected CD suckage with an iRiver H120
  52. life advice #31a
  53. big, real big
  54. Uncle in The Oldie
  55. it’s not cheap being green

September 2004

  1. two blue herons
  2. not *that* Gold Disk, I hope
  3. Russia ratifies!
  4. half a turbine: wee deid speug
  5. big bogging box
  6. ttc kalimba
  7. using MIME::Lite from ActiveState Perl on Windows
  8. almost open wireless
  9. co-transiteers annoyance
  10. beer admission
  11. the joy of spam!
  12. my monitor crashed!
  13. Yay, yay! Mr A.!
  14. Poorly Hacked Perl
  15. banjo blues
  16. Foaf
  17. only in toronto
  18. late groundhog
  19. I had a worse roommate, once
  20. The ‘head -n’ debacle
  21. brr brr bddr brr weew brr brr
  22. No sign of peace, order or good government here
  23. Just like on the old Amstrad CPC
  24. the word “bummer”
  25. Grocery gateway: now with added uselessness
  26. .info – wasn’t that an Amiga thing?
  27. PTC is go
  28. Phew, redirects are good!
  29. Do You Wanna Be In My Clan?
  30. It Takes A Different Kind Of Bravery To Face These Troubled Times
  31. Which part of … do you not understand?
  32. Filled with Oaty Goodness
  33. Saved by the hat!
  34. there’s a ghost in my house
  35. reminder of summer: field recording
  36. Not like you could tell
  37. gum mug
  38. Singing is a radical act
  39. Reindexing old MT entries
  40. Normal Service Resumed, I think
  41. ***TypeBlog***
  42. Ping
  43. two companies that don’t get it
  44. Steve Weber abides
  45. disgruntled domain for sale
  46. best … Leonards … EVER!!
  47. Not all cars suck
  48. Jings, fast photo!
  49. An Adventurer Is You!
  50. Goodbye, Grocery Gateway
  51. Yay, sneakers!
  52. Autumnal
  53. Photos of the future
  54. Messages from Steve

August 2004

  1. Help, I’ve been traded!
  2. We Saw A … Beaver?!
  3. Get outta my way!
  4. Another cool thing about WordPress
  5. bad scene on Kennedy Road
  6. Linksys NSLU2 – Network Storage for the people
  7. Mostly working
  8. Under New Management
  9. dark stain ahead
  10. nice scaling
  11. two cheers for sympatico
  12. photo printers
  13. more vawts, yawn
  14. Whew
  15. Renfest ’04
  16. biggest vee-hickle ever
  17. Would you like baby’s-breath with that?
  18. Monkeys
  19. Talkin’ Energy with Darrin and Paul
  20. Saving me the bother
  21. The Specialist
  22. They put up a gas station at our wind turbine!
  23. not particularly my bag
  24. One ridiculous vehicle
  25. Repeatedly stabbing myself in the eye with a hot poker
  26. UofT Solar Car
  27. Sigh …
  28. tee hee, they have no idea
  29. I believe in bugs
  30. gone digital
  31. Restoring mozilla mail local folders
  32. The Bert Richard Connection
  33. broken up a ding dong
  34. cron, gone
  35. My race of Atomic Supersquirrels will destroy them all!
  36. thanks, 1and1

July 2004

  1. Bad, Naughty Sympatico
  2. anniversaries
  3. simple cheapo CF card adaptor and Linux
  4. when clichés attack
  5. lion theft on the boulevard
  6. Yum
  7. And I Wished I Could Ride A Horse
  8. Norvin and Blair’s Wedding
  9. Kennedy Road, from shore to shore
  10. it does too have a name, Bruce
  11. Cor, strike a light!
  12. Just … Look Around You
  13. The Wit and Wisdom of Paul Hart, part 37(b)
  14. strange exchange
  15. Menace on the Roads
  16. saw site rendezvous
  17. WindShare Barbecue last night
  18. willow weave
  19. Yay! Even better panoramas with enblend
  20. Oops …
  21. Tsars and Priests
  22. Happy Canada Day!
  23. Images By File Number

June 2004

  1. The DSCN0001 Project
  2. e-mail contact
  3. Two differences
  4. iRiver standard cable, yeah!
  5. Say no to Bonsai tomorrow, okay?
  6. I think I’ve got my thunder, thank you
  7. An improvement, wouldn’t you say?
  8. The Mayor McCa Experience
  9. It’s gettin’ so you can’t say thank you no more
  10. Getting (Not Very) Political
  11. The Multi-Talented Mayor
  12. Happiness is not …
  13. linux allofmp3 downloader
  14. Welcome to Big Turtle Country
  15. and the groundhog shall lie down with the cat
  16. freecache doesn’t
  17. No, it’s not “Your Brain On Drugs”
  18. “The Quest For The Rest”–The Polyphonic Spree
  19. iRiver H120
  20. A Happy Sight
  21. cheesepiphany
  22. My letter to The Guardian
  23. ebay.ca “page not responding” with mozilla

May 2004

  1. busy busy weekend
  2. HSBC recovers
  3. a lyttle sladek, perhaps?
  4. don cherry
  5. total sympathy failure
  6. Putting the rant back into intolerant
  7. How to make Windows suck 10000 fewer times
  8. too many cables
  9. raw, raw!
  10. iRiver, youRiver, hesheitRivers
  11. Windsave, again
  12. illicit substance: Caffeinated Scots Tablet
  13. composed entirely of bananas
  14. The Cyborg’s Windmill
  15. Bunny
  16. Temporary hearing impairment for pleasure

April 2004

  1. In Your Face, Iceland!
  2. Fortran is fast!
  3. we’re going; are you?
  4. CD Thinning annoyances
  5. Fortran has no STDERR
  6. Was there something in the water?
  7. Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, 2004
  8. so it might not look much to you …
  9. Happy Earth Day
  10. HSBC must really hate Linux
  11. An apt captcha
  12. wireless dilemma
  13. okay, so maybe it wasn’t so bad
  14. happy computer = happy stewart
  15. u-don’t-file.ca
  16. them vertical-axis thingies
  17. Getting my fortran head together
  18. What I sound like
  19. Slower, and of Montreal
  20. small fame in the globe and mail
  21. radio silence
  22. Cathkin gets a wind farm
  23. Seemingly innocuous comment spam
  24. the tyranny of configure
  25. even cooler, simpler stuff
  26. first groundhog
  27. SanDisk Cruzer + Gentoo
  28. the nearly-new immigrants
  29. Improving America’s Electrical Efficiency at a stroke
  30. Sustainable Energy Fair
  31. worst earworm ever

March 2004

  1. oddly disturbing
  2. an ending and a hangover
  3. Another Man’s Poison
  4. lyrical donuts, apologies to Basho
  5. Tablet Fame
  6. signs of spring in scarborough
  7. Goodbye, Cecilia
  8. the CMYK inkjet scam
  9. Sustainable Energy Fair at University of Toronto on April 1st!
  10. Yes, I used to have an M5-designed recumbent bicycle
  11. two tater tots on a teeter-totter
  12. bad palm art
  13. Chris’s one-liner
  14. Touching the camel
  15. sometimes you just have to …
  16. Last Thursday at OANDA
  17. late cat
  18. the slow erosion of mail
  19. Grubbing about in the logs
  20. Formerly Known As Renaissance Nerd …
  21. wind at my back
  22. No Such Currency
  23. big dog
  24. Mr Eitzen Has Left The Building
  25. When siblings go prog …
  26. timewaster #1
  27. don’t be a prat, carry one
  28. another thing I can’t afford
  29. mozilla tab coolness
  30. Toronto, the MFP enquiry, and Linux
  31. bad news
  32. Toronto International Bicycle Show
  33. Rendez-vous with the Triplets
  34. Catching up with words
  35. A positive wind energy site
  36. Scotland Photos
  37. vuescan and gentoo
  38. And back home again

February 2004

  1. Scots, wahey!
  2. Yet another Scottish rooftop turbine
  3. too much caffeine, and Jeffrey Zeldman
  4. Gallery
  5. Ivor Cutler in The Guardian
  6. National Mechanical Pencil Day
  7. Living in a Nation Hospitable to Organized Crime and Terrorism
  8. Dear Mr SanDisk
  9. A little cultural sensitivity, please
  10. One Perfect Rose for Catherine
  11. windows annoyances: md5sum pollution
  12. casting runes, smith chart style
  13. Scripting Radio Buttons
  14. Doug Selsam does not make wind turbines like anyone else
  15. freshmeat shilling for MS, via google
  16. Saw
  17. The Corporation
  18. $29.72/kg
  19. Glasgow Science Centre needs a Wind Turbine
  20. Gandalf, bankrupt
  21. It’s not as cold as you’d think
  22. I vant to drink you-all’s blood
  23. Don’t be dead, Mr. Spalding
  24. Happy Runeberg Day
  25. Is PharmaSpam making you sick?
  26. 30 minutes of my life gone
  27. Stewart gets another chance to make a fool of himself in public
  28. Comment Spam
  29. Attack of the Dodgy Duracells
  30. Geek Warning
  31. The Triplets of Belleville

January 2004

  1. bogla bogla bogla
  2. Yes
  3. WindShare AGM tonight
  4. No ISSNs for Canadian blogs
  5. dexit, or something
  6. Snow
  7. Burns Night tonight
  8. fun with bilingual packaging
  9. Requiem for a coffee mug
  10. WindShare has been grid-connected for a year!
  11. Dip dip dip, my little ship
  12. The perfect guy dinner
  13. What Every Householder Should Know
  14. When Memes Collide: Bayesian Filtering + Srmabled Text = Unstoppable Spam
  15. New Tone, indeed!
  16. spam subject as lo-fi band name
  17. My Favourite Octogenarian
  18. cold enough for ya?
  19. working for chicken-feed
  20. frailing miserably
  21. Stewart’s caffeinated Sunday
  22. PNG graphics on Movable Type
  23. exobrains, ad campaigns, gherkins and marauding chickens
  24. Geeky PostScript Stuff
  25. icicles in ma nose
  26. very small, but not cheap
  27. Dr Katzoff didn’t use bullet points
  28. Linux partition labels considered harmful
  29. George Fox was not a unit of PepsiCo
  30. bike computer for cheap wind speed measurement
  31. browser shrink-to-fit printing
  32. the fascinating names of the American Civil War, and other Jesse James related items
  33. appalling office samizdat generator
  34. welcome baby emma

2003 91

December 2003

  1. A helpful error message
  2. Happy Birthday Catherine
  3. the woeful TEXTAREA widget
  4. Delightfully Barking – or are they?
  5. practising detachment (badly)
  6. Everybody Loves Wikipedia
  7. Networkaround Solutions
  8. Whistle-stop across Missouri
  9. Sainsbury’s were lying, after all
  10. Unearthed at Sainsbury’s
  11. Happy Winter Solstice
  12. Mozilla Mail Went Nuts
  13. quirks, quarks, and oggs
  14. masters of bandwidth
  15. going postal
  16. Office Party, Canadian Tradition
  17. happy birthday, WindShare
  18. Abdul “Ben” Camel writes for “The Spoof”
  19. best porridge ever
  20. mp3cddb
  21. WindSave cleans up
  22. Enoch, the Money Mart ad guy
  23. hugin on gentoo: panoramas at last
  24. Phó frenzy
  25. Style
  26. WindSave: All Betz Are Off!
  27. don’t do this from the root directory
  28. DNX-1000 Hardware /dev/null Accelerator
  29. Now Reading: The Machine in the Garden
  30. learning about wind turbines
  31. highly subjective guide to wind turbine photography
  32. malicious deomnibusation of maternal relative’s maternal relative strictly forbidden
  33. the little turbine that …
  34. eggs with carpet
  35. tearin’ out a tonsil
  36. 4 beeeeeeeeeeeellion dollars?!
  37. More on the annoying pseudo-Scot
  38. Announcing SINC
  39. mid summer, 1987
  40. ottawa pictures
  41. money mart’s annoying ad
  42. do me a favour
  43. back from ottawa

November 2003

  1. Coal Seams Not So Efficient
  2. all shoes made in china
  3. tablet recipe revisited
  4. car free in canada
  5. seat shading
  6. pathologically polite
  7. snow, man
  8. so long, and thanks for all the fish
  9. how the blog got its name
  10. The Remarkable Bob Levitt
  11. scruss’s guide to domestic harmony. part 314 …
  12. Props
  13. new, fast, automatic domain
  14. Ode to Joy
  15. Wind Energy Links
  16. everyone else is voting, why can’t I?
  17. so long, emusic
  18. yay, go nettwerk!

October 2003

  1. Canada supporting copy-controlled CDs

September 2003

  1. only in canada
  2. found sound
  3. just like Ms Morissette said
  4. i think i like emusic …
  5. where’s willy?

August 2003

  1. renewable energy spam!
  2. it takes a worried chicken
  3. argh… software annoyances
  4. Well, George, I didn’t expect to find you here …

July 2003

  1. Phew …
  2. Sick beyond belief
  3. The return of Mayor McCA
  4. Stumpy!!!
  5. the wisdom of chairman ralph
  6. and finally… Raudelunas ‘Pataphysical Review!

June 2003

  1. happy birthday to, erm, me
  2. kennedy station is go
  3. a great place to be *from* …
  4. damn your photoshop, sir!
  5. what’s this ear?
  6. they don’t make ’em like they used to
  7. pinholes
  8. “What a Life!” lives!
  9. fishepiphany
  10. Christian Anderson Smith, where were you in our hour of need?
  11. A century later, worse economy
  12. Mmm
  13. Happy Birthday
  14. is this thing on, eh?

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