2009–2013
1,255 posts
2013 305
December 2013
- Ask ino sie cho col ate
- Food of the Gods …
- Spike, the Left Bank Books cat
- and all the world is donut-shaped …
- College Lights
- Meat 3
- Making tea in the old fondue #DarkTO
- Introducing RAFTP: the Really Annoying File Transfer Protocol
- Clotheslines grow teeth on the solstice
- Ice-storm lightbulbs
- To the untrained eye, it might actually look like I know what I’m doing
- Full steam, Mr Butler, and damn the consequences
- teh p0inty
- Updata successed!
- Oh, LinkedIn, you make it too easy …
- My Raspberry Pi talks to my Oscilloscope
- PWMing thru snow
- Faster MP3 options for Raspberry Pi
- Beaverthoven
- Why don’t they build like this any more?
- My signal generator is noisy ☹
- Coloured BIPV Panels
- Crane and train
- like the weight of the world
- Trashbot
- Vampire selfie
- My first FreeDV QSO
- Still haunted by early 2000s tech interview questions …
- Blueline / Black & Decker Power Monitor RF Packets
- We won’t, we won’t Roku …
November 2013
- a nice wee present from scotland #ferncake
- icelight
- Gurt big ‘ole in the groun
- Serious nostalgia…
- Looks a bit like Grumpy Cat from this angle
- Definitely not the comfy chairs
- Crested Oarfish has doubts.
- In which I successfully pretend to be an electricity meter …
- Google Contacts – ISO dates, please
- Brett plays Analog Defender
- Wiring – made in Canada!
- Dusty Skies
- Now *this* is a thermionic valve.
- Amongst My People – at the YRARC Hamfest
October 2013
- Fleeting light
- Protext lives!
- Resurrecting a fine old meter
- Calxeda EnergyCore 4x quad core ARM
- Cubieboard at FSOSS 2013
- The Simpson Canada 635 lives again!
- What part of “No Flyers” did they not understand? Bloody Scarborough Mirror …
- Stuck tank robot
- A Raspberry Pi robot #raspberrypi
- Robots!
- A little basic Arduino kit
- Utility Meter Reader: nice idea, flawed implementation
- Not dark yet
- Something is wrong here
- The woods.
- He gets everywhere, doesn’t he?
- Sometimes, you just have to sharpen crayons
- Doleful dog
- Good old Warden Woods
- Did it just get a little more nerdy in here?
- Early Machine Intelligence
- We’ve got your Fall right here
- Morse Palindromes, or CQ Christian Bök
- Am I really still a contributor to the Collins-Robert dictionary?
- A spinny thing … on wheels!
- Trade Show Aftermath
- Red creeper
- Get …
- A pretty but not-quite-as-functioning-as-I’d-like Simpson 635HV
- VA3PID is back on the air!
- I love this space
- Ymnota …
- Buck-50 coffee and muffin; rockin’ it retiree-style
September 2013
- Faster Java on Raspberry Pi
- The Highland Creek Experience
- Don’t think I can bike this
- BeagleBone Black: slow as a dog
- That’s one big Arduino shield
- Another wooden tree
- A cool cordial at YYG
- Boat
- Red cliffs
- Windy 2
- At WEICan
- A good walk wasted
- Sunrise
- Bright brushes
- The very trippy LED cube
- Bee Flower
- At the Kiss & Ride
- Boop
- My favourite building just got a little metal friend
- Old hydro buildings are the best
- How come I didn’t know about Quinzee?
- Yplac
August 2013
- A very very very very angry red squirrel
- What NL’s famous for
- Well, I ain’t gonna call you on it …
- Two Lighthouses
- We’re all out of East here
- Petty Harbour
- With dressing and gravy, of course
- On the Causeway of Positive Attitudes.
- Spinny Things, Port Hawkesbury
- Stephen, maybe your next job shouldn’t be a children’s entertainer …
- Damn fine crisps
- Chéticamp waves
- Epic creeper time at Glenora
- Glenora
- Of course, the self-service Canada Post kiosk was too good to last.
- Hose reel just can’t handle it any more
- Trolling the Bruce Nuclear Cost and Clean Air Calculator for Fun & Profit
- What’s a GFL truck doing on the east side? This is a City neighbourhood
- The 9″ Circline – aka “the bastard bulb”.
- Things stay calculated on this one. Also useful for hand-to-hand combat.
- What would they say of us if this were humanity’s only surviving relic?
- This is why we still have real calculators…
- Twice the price ain’t twice as nice
- Whoah, magic trollies. How do they do that?
- memehands
- Happy Eid, y’all
- The personal wind farm is growing
- An ode to the 4-colour process
- DS21, avec fez.
- Sleeping bees.
- Srt
- Nearing peak sunflower
- Clouds over Ashtonbee.
- Turtlewatching.
- At the brickworks.
- Bixi/citiBike parking pro-tip: use the foot.
July 2013
- Triple-header sunflower
- For Boris’s birthday #cupcakes
- Canada’s Microwave Links
- Simple is best
- You say messy, I prefer “abundant” …
- Wedding!!
- another partial success…
- Dot-crawl much? #zxspectrum
- Seldom, if ever, played in Canada: Chuckie Egg on the ZX Spectrum …
- Adding another to my personal wind farm
- Fluffy clouds.
- Happiness is a brand new shiny Bixi.
- mailed!
- new Black Walls tape …
- Nylon-strung mandolin
- A spinny thing, doing its spinny thing.
- at the game
- Untitled
- oh no, what have I done?
- Yes, they have everything here …
- But what about *this* sign?
- I’d rather it were still a cinema.
- Aw yiss! Valrhona white!
- Isn’t for trusting this “atomic” clock.
- Little house on the.
- If it’s no Scottish, it’s …
- Sooper sekrit water meadow
- Hilroy paper gives me the wrong kind of fuzzies …
- All of the colours at Stevenson’s
- High river, closed highway.
- A (mostly) colour-managed workflow for Linux for not too many $$$
- Oh no! I’m at Wonder Pens! #inkfrenzy
- I thought my work ID card needed work …
- “if there’s something inside that you wanna say …”
- A wooden tree.
- make it stop, somebody, please…
- *Magnetic* googly eyes: this changes everything! (via evilmadscientist.com)
June 2013
- Good morning!
- Moti smart motors: http://moti.ph
- Hi-tech POS terminal
- Using large format paper with Linux and the Epson WorkForce WF-7520 printer
- ZX Spectrum → Canada
- It lives!
- One of the very few Sinclair ZX Spectrums in Canada.
- You should know why this was the most used key.
- For Global Wind Day.
- For Those About To Nom …
- Show-offs.
- Dampness falls.
- So we’re pretending to be New York today, are we? Wish we had bagel trucks for real…
- And this, kids, is why we rig our dipoles with black Dacron …
- One of Toronto’s faux houses – the transformer station at 694 Birchmount.
- Artisanal Hardware Random Number Generator
- “Well, that was unexpected …”: The Raspberry Pi’s Hardware Random Number Generator
- The new Blackwings do make a pretty sharpening.
- Like I need /more/ pens…
- has all of the random numbers
- My haul from @_wonderpens
- New shoes for Catherine.
- Ten year blog anniversary!
- was supposed to be cleaning the bike, but got hung up watching this large, squee-worthy phidippus audax
- Ravine riding = spotty tummy.
May 2013
- Look, if I’m going to be stuck with a dressing on my foot for the foreseeable, I might as well have fun with it.
- Well, at least someone’s enjoying the flooding …
- Survival of the fittest sunflower experiment: raked in 1kg of seeds bought from Bulk Barn…
- Jing Yin Temple
- At the Jing Yin Temple.
- Cones and Fronds.
- Tiny wee Raspberry Pi home automation server.
- fixing firefox’s fugly fonts on Ubuntu
- Good morning!
- Bikes and burgers at Harry’s.
- We may have a slight dandelion problem, though the dandelions would disagree.
- And Lo! It turns!
- clean up your GnuPG keyring
- Hyperspace puffin from beyond the fluo galaxy.
- Compose yourself, Raspberry Pi!
- Let’s play “Canadian Candy or Teratoma?”
- I watched it for hours and it didn’t wriggle once.
- MakerBot at the GE stand
- Prototype wind energy storage system. #wind13 #imightbemessingwithyou
- Is this a big enough ultracap for you, @eightlines ?
- Show floor from above #wind13
- Not much here there, either.
- Night falls on gratuitous architecture.
- This one hasn’t, yet.
- Maybe I’ll teach you about Jesus … Or maybe I won’t.
- No sign of Mrs O’Leary’s cow.
- B l o s s o m
April 2013
- Hint: I don’t do this for the money …
- Jerk Chicken on coco bread #anditwasgood
- Mac to Linux: 1Password to KeePassX
- I Conquer You, Mr Snowpile … until next winter, anyway.
- In wild coyote country.
- It’s been too long, The Wonder Stuff …
- That’s the weekend listening sorted, then.
- Looks like heavy weather …
- I raise my carton to you, trusting that time will destroy you like a Mexican god. #nowthatchersdead
- Ubuntu on the Samsung Series 7
- Salticids in my bathroom make me happy …
- I keep threatening to get Catherine one of these.
- A nice wee pot in Glasgow Airport.
- Amongst spinny things at Whitelee.
- The only game this mercury-switched joystick was good for was 3D Star Strike. Now it’s just toxic waste.
- I’m sure if I put wee goggles on it it’d be a steampunk hedgehog-centipede.
- Only the finest twitch-gaming joystick ever made: the Konix Navigator.
- I’m sure it seemed a good idea at the time.
- Oh my …
- found my old 2000ADs …
- Hey, look what they put here in Cathkin …
- Mum and dad’s solar thingy, ticking along at 1.6 kW at 55.8 north.
- World’s tiniest daffodil.
- Schiphol sunrise.
March 2013
- A better image rollover with Ultimate TinyMCE
- Wind Power, 1940s style
- Could one say *chunky* bacon? _why, is that you??
- I’ve been waiting for this day for more than 30 years …
- Forward to Libraries: Toronto Public Library added
- Snow tufts for Catherine.
- All that’s left of the cinema …
- C’mon Madvac, let’s see some donuts in that snow.
- X11-Basic: Compiler Insanity!
- A scoosh case.
- Londonontario.
- Running X11-Basic (almost perfectly) on Raspberry Pi
- Snow boulders bring the drama.
February 2013
- Too much packaging, Newark
- A snowy landing at YYZ
- These go on for ever.
- Better than it looks.
- .awesome
- New, tall wind turbines are super-awesome, according to REF
- USB Fart Detector (unfortunately)
- Nordic Ware Microwave Rice Cooker Instructions
- … and in the heart of London …
- Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time …
- Too nice a day not to be out on the bike …
- A Murder of Crows on your Raspberry Pi with Boodler
- Soon, babies, soon …
- Digispark charlieplex shield rescued from the rework pile
- The wee tiny Digisparks have arrived in Canada.
- A new-hatched bluebottle, warming itself on the sunny wall, knows nothing of its brief future
- A light snowfall in Scarborough.
- X10 for Raspberry Pi on the Cheap [North American Edition]
- Snow ridges on the deck
- Jerk chicken pasta
- hey, it’s the sun … heyu and sunwait and cron on the Raspberry Pi
- Up there with the chocolate fireguard.
- Simple ADC with the Raspberry Pi
- clawhammer banjo for people who have never played anything before
- It’s bulgogi time!
- Tiny orange thing is what I ordered. Stack of boxes is what it shipped in. We’re going to die out for sure.
January 2013
- The very tall monitor experiment …
- Classy cable for the Quite Rubbish Clock
- qrclock, the demo reel
- can has gertboard? #raspberrypi
- stats stats lay down flat
- The Quite Rubbish Clock
- Reprap.
- Never held a Curta before
- Now this has given me an idea … #raspberrypi #qrcode
- Like the sun shines out its ____
- Oh dear, Canada.
- Waiting mutely for spring.
- What is this I don’t even
- More like this, please.
- Too many QR Codes
- lit trees
- Big block.
- Good old-fashioned isolatin’ pliers.
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December 2012
- Penelope the hamster.
- Catherine’s little friend.
- Om nom nom
- I think I made a friend …
- Adding a Bluetooth serial terminal to Raspberry Pi
- Gabriel’s Message — Black Walls
- mosaics
- Kinda small fry …
- Everybody has an ill-advised vehicle phase …
- My nerdy (and cheap!) desktop timer. MSP430 ftw.
- Get thee behind me, Santa: an overly tasty Picard’s gift box.
- X10 home automation with Raspberry Pi: heyu
- vauxhall viva CGG 306K
- I bloody hate welded PVC packaging.
- The shell of dead media lives on
- Mesmerizing, isn’t it?
- Rob Bishop waxes poetic about the joys of USB implementation on the #raspberrypi
- Perhaps the last extant vestige of 1/2″ computer tape.
November 2012
- I hear it’s a euphemism for “second place”
- Sorry, folks …
- Bad Kids Jokes
- Hi Five Bear
- Meat
- WELL PLAYED
- Demented bee gonna cut you …
- Woodsy bike
- Er … mah … gerd
- New wheels.
- Little tiny maraca.
- Queen and Spadoinger.
- Mist condensing on fuzzy jacket.
- Raspberry Pi as a USB audio capture device
- … and before you ask …
- Mike Rankin ghost bike
- Morning with nearby plume moth
- Tiny, tidy, wireless, headless Raspberry Pi server incl. power setup #raspberrypi
- Emergency shopping …
- the happiest sound
- Microcontrollers need love too
- Ever heard the term “Appropriate Use of Technology�
- Potentially handy Raspberry Pi power source
- python + Arduino + Tk: Toggling an LED
- No … just no.
- My American Science & Surplus haul
- Where to buy minced farmers.
- A Manz Building.
- Bloody el!
- Deagan
- Western Automatic Music
- American Science & Surplus haul
- My cousin’s Pez collection stretches to many a yard.
- Metal owl.
- Old Town
- Meats of the world
- Pwned by King James V
- Quality wind for quality people
- Power Cost Monitor signals — for reals!
- pretty-printing Arduino sketches
- yay tiny stepper motor!
- Yay tiny stepper motor!
- The MagPi
- Ermahgerd strehrt cerrs!
October 2012
- Servo Control from pyfirmata + arduino
- a paucity of pi posts
- Smart TL271 Rear Bike Light Battery Replacement
- You’re Not Alone
- But are they Stuggy?
- LaunchPad MSP430 pomodoro timer using Energia
- Chinook wind-powered vehicle – Rohloff equipped! #bikenerd #CanWEA2012
- It’s the Avtomotive Bvilding!
- optar: paper-based archiving
- bears repeating
- Och shite, it’s Frightened Rabbit!
- ATTiny programming board
- Horned Owl tires of all this.
- when “uname -n” returns “kenny” …
- Ball’s Falls
- Same old man ..,
- Happy Thanksgiving, You Hosers
- Rocks
- Hey look, there at the back, a wooden tree, isn’t it a pretty one?
- Major Organ
- Pipe organ
- It’s the Towel Owl
- Painfully Slow Amstrad CPC Emulation on the Raspberry Pi
- Exploding colours
- fun with pseudocolours
- A rare moment of reflected-light spinniness from my little solar turbine
- … Except we don’t pronounce it that way.
- It’s not that simple
September 2012
- Django Django – one of the most fun concerts I’ve ever been to. Go and see them.
- Sometimes, things do not go exactly as planned … C development for Amstrad CPC on Raspberry Pi
- Creep creep, little creepers, creep!
- is totally taken with the clever spiral-feed mechanism moulded into Ricoh toner cartridges. Yes, I’m a nerd.
- Ermahgerd Scersherbehrnk
- Wireless, Cordless Raspberry Pi
- Headless, wireless, battery-powered Raspberry Pi
- is preparing to be eaten by his own dinner
- The abandoned bus station is a perspective exercise.
- Flicker maps look like sparkles
- Deep-fried jam sandwich
- #swagfail
- (sort-of) Solar Powered Raspberry Pi
- Objet-printed chain
- 3d print your Sturmey Archer?
- The (blurry) business end of an Objet printer
- Morning dew on spider web
- The worst job in the world
- There’s precious little here here
- Of this we approve.
- Clever; advertising on a wheelie conference docs/swag carrier
- A lizard taking a dim view of me.
- A tiny wee lizard.
- A big flying thing, slowly.
- My new bike! Thanks to @momentummag and @OpusBicycles – and also to @ExpoCycle for hosting
- We thought Biopace was a bad idea in 89 and haven’t revised our decision.
- Oh Surly, how do you taunt me …
- This would never be my bicycle, but I applaud the engineering.
- I have no idea what this wee bike could possibly be for, but I support the concept
- 2D Star Dodge flies again!
- At the Surly stand …
- This works … An electric Solex
- Artisanal rarebit
- Leftover pepper chicken masala with parotta and rice Om Nom Nom
- Amstrad CPC INKEY codes
August 2012
- Pibow; it’s official – normal USB cables don’t fit
- New Music Tapes in the house!
- Lookout Trail
- Algonquining
- Has it really come to us needing a “fresh remote” bag?
- the russian peasants are multiplying!
- A gently snoozing porcupine
- The view over to Porridge Lake
- Roots
- The view across Horne Lake
- The dinner view …
- A very fuzzy moth.
- Moth Squadron
- Bright flowers
- Times New ROT13 (and Times New Caesar)
- This land is ours land …
- The doors here at at Elliot Lake are made of pure awesome.
- Pibow
- Pibow, assembled #raspberrypi
- Untitled
- Nice crane
- Not sure I want to know what the story behind this picture is.
- Osm cookies
- Oh dear #osm
- The keys to my professional skill an judgment
- Dead transfers as a fallen dove
- Raspberry Pi, Python & Arduino *and* a GUI …
- Raspberry Pi, Python & Arduino
- Controlling an Arduino from Raspberry Pi using Processing
- ssh … you know who
- Untitled
- Pointy!
- The Heinz factory in Leamington really looks like a factory, you know?
- Pi Sandwich
- Mephisto mystery coordinate …
- Orac, jr: Raspberry Pi in a Bud Industries’ Pi Sandwich enclosure
- Sunset near Long Branch
- Maybe a bit much magenta
- learning to tolerate python
July 2012
- Cicada
- Mmm, tasty UHT …
- Fattery
- Ahh, the smell of charring FR-2 …
- Raspberry Pi breakout board with circuit protection
- Always use protection …
- My life will be so much faster now.
- Chirp is a thing
- 330s
- First close-up of the Flapjack Planet; appearance: oaten.
- Raspbian ftw!
- My thumb + broken gear = Statuette of Liberty
- bets you don’t have a Saskatchewan Burrowing Owl Interpretive Centre pin … #sboic
- Ontario Hamfest yesterday
- Home brew Raspberry Pi breadboard header. Ingredients: strip board, pins, swearing
- Well, that about wraps it up for vinyl audio quality, then …
- Independent date x-axis in Excel charts
- I guess people were, at the time
- yay windows 3 reversi
- Beta Raspberry Pi board
- Only the small sandwich today
- The Chrismobile, mark II
- Live-action SimStapler
- Canadian Wheat Boards: #1 & #2
- mockingbird
- Convinced it’s an apparition
- Hey, even the bottle’s special!
- is about to have a very happy Canada Day with a special bottle of Innis & Gunn
- Going Nowhere Fast
June 2012
- Probably unsafe to drive
- Someone’s had a shitty day …
- … and that, kids, was the Rochdale building
- “Go scratch a rock on some congealed oil and tell me what it sounds likeâ€
- Yup 2
- Meat 2
- FIXME: not quite right morse tree
- One year of amateur radio: what works
- facebook paranoia
- peaksaver plus, dammit
- At the Save Jarvis thing
- “Fran’s” backwards is of course SNARF
- … with Bright & Lion
- Awright!
- Nom nom cold noodles
- confuzzled: fldigi seems to be interfering with itself …
- not overthinking Raspberry Pi enclosures one bit …
- Scrummy scran
- Canadian Irn Bru has caffeine again! Whee!
- A not-over thought Raspberry Pi box #raspberrypi
- Go scratch a rock on some congealed oil and tell me what it sounds like
- Pi!
- Untitled
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- This building looks like a ship from Elite
- Raspberry Pi is in the house!
- sweet Superbe conversion
- might be on to something here …
- knock yourselves out, guys …
- Toaty wee radio
- didn’t realise that @cyriakharrris had made a sculpture in Toronto
May 2012
- Only time my solar turbine spins is around 6pm
- signals
- Generating some signals
- Fun with CIS solar cells.
- awk is not irksome
- The sweat bees are all about this stuff
- Poppy loupe
- Poppy popped
- OoooOooo! #arduino #leonardo
- silly scope
- Hope I don’t get confused for someone who knows what they’re doing …
- Hamvention 2012
- Boundary
- This took some fairly advanced manual Trodat reconfiguration
- JohannG, autotuned
- What bike baskets are for …
- Spiderlet
- Burlington represent!
- Tiny garden spiderlet on the sunflower seedlings
- VE3WE CW beacon
- truly, the internet is made of cats
- Scarborough! Lakefield!! Tempe!!!
- Beware the Lexcavator
- has too damn many arduinos already
- Om nom
- Squee! Minigeese!
- Our office’s cutting-edge comms infrastructure …
- Ian Darwin and his new book on Android development
- FUCK YEAH SCOTS TABLET
- Tablet. Poured.
- Tablet’s close to ready …
- Let the tablet making commence!
- Phoenix
- This is why I like my solar engineers …
- I SAW A LIZARD!!!!
- Doesn’t know of any big-box store in Canada or the UK that carries oscilloscopes
- View from breakfast
April 2012
- My bank broke PDF … and how I used PDFBeads to fix it
- Probably the best pizza in the world.
- Moulton gorgeousness
- My 3″ of arc of sky view
- 808 keychain cameras: cool, or creepy? Discuss.
- Now *this* is what I call an ink cartridge …
- Creamer Totem
- The strange world of the 808 Car Keys Micro Camera
- It feels like 1974 …
- And that’s that …
- Yep …
- bloggin’
- At Catherine’s blog talk
- Oh no it isn’t …
- It’s pointed straight at me!
- My very standard bicycle is not a standard bicycle to the city
- wind and solar … with heavy tree cover
- A not-very-good golf joke
- Bloody bike lockers don’t fit if you use a standard basket
- So maybe it’s not that bad.
- TCA is online
- Now, that’s better …
- Yes, it is.
- Where we first stayed in Canada.
- Two cory cats in love
- Just in case you weren’t sure what building subways does to roads …
- Ooh, new polymer $50 …
- Hmm …
- Ultra-sweet velomobile
- Sweet velomobile
- Ten years in Canada
- Coinstarring
March 2012
- At Tam & Lynn’s
- Cookiebunny
- This must be a British concept …
- Glenn and Anthony.
- Uh … These were just to show thumb positioning for claw hammer on the various banjos I own.
- Untitled
- Untitled
- I’m Delaware; are you?
- JT65 on Ubuntu, finally
- What if you build it, and they leave?
- For Catherine
- Clever, but annoying
- Y Niwl: We’ll keep a twang in the hillside
- promises to do a better job than Rob Ford
- hates it when someone scrapes your car and drives away
- “There is somewhere an abandoned house”
- kind of defeats the purpose
- shrunky dunk
- loud bird
- a very quick guide to using a remote release with CHDK
- … And this, my friends, is what we call an /optic/ …
- OH COME ON!
- electrics
- World’s oogiest snow pile.
- First groundhog of 2012
- the crapcam is alive; why?
- Black Walls – Acedia pre-release
- Keepin it REAL
- Not bad
- Visualise, actualise, realise
- Nova Scotia
- ColorHug
- ColorHUG: I has one
- I won’t even feign being sorry about this one …
- Score
- A great moment
- Untitled
- Untitled
- Pingy thing made from (I think) cable sleeves
- still rather more proud of this code than I should be
- Faxing it in from …
- Abridged
- … there’d be days like these
- Yeah, we’re like that …
- Porter prop
- A bit too much Randy Bachman
- yay! a completed SSTV QSO!
February 2012
- SSTV is go (sorta)
- Vintage Heathkit Mohican receiver
- Amen to that!
- What’s up, squirrel butt?
- My kind of RPG
- Goulash frenzy!
- Generational loss in MP3 re-encoding
- First of the year!
- All Day Long In Bliss
- Rainbow on the shoe pile
- rebooting the handwriting
- WPS: PostScript for the Web
- Awk day of the week function
- Bear and construction sign
- Here is a nice boundary layer
- This looks like fun (and are you surprised that the polis was in the donut shop?)
- Worked All States – by my standards, at least
- best fail whale
- this week, i ‘ave been mostly typesettin’ …
January 2012
- I still have my TeX lapel badge …
- help help I’m being harassed by the New Democratic Party
- help help I’m being harassed by the New Democratic Party #ndp
- i liek this alot
- keep it short, keep me sweet
- S100 things
- fun trick noisemaker
- Inside the Atari Punk Console
- Completed Atari Punk Console
- QRM Cat
- An APC board, so much skronk potential
- archival, snarkival
- The problem with Nook apps
- Leap Year Practice
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December 2011
- T-mobil
- Transcendent beauty
- The elixir of life #teddrewes
- Best regifted quaich ever
- Richard Harvey – A New Way of Seeing
- Untitled
- pdf qsl cards for all!
- mildly impressed by shazam (and soundhound)
- MetaFilter 2012-1 Music Swap
- and now only two
- Who did this?
- Only two locks at Chester now
- more ttc kalimba at Pape station
- has no idea why they’d need a Quiet Room
- York and Wellington
- Colorado
- One’s a meal
- End of Movember
- New toy …
November 2011
- A Bumper Sticker for the late Mr. V
- last past th’ epost
- 2011 Award for worst-directed charity mail …
- On MetaFilter, as I suspected all along …
- I ♥ 10m
- Ooh, XLD niftiness!
- Yours truly, ‰te>a…t
- Chirp, the universal HT programmer
- he’s just, y’know
- It’s Ill-Advised Facial Hair Month!
October 2011
- 8 legs of awesomeness
- last of the daisy-ish things
- Legions of young Canadian photographers say …
- 24 pins to the platen
- 24 hours after sending 286 digital QSL cards …
- (Not Just) Firefox’s “Pile of Poo” Easter Egg: 💩
- Secure digital QSL cards, part 2: shell script
- Good old PCD0992 …
- No work of art …
- Creating secure digital QSL cards with your LoTW certificate
- not your dad’s multimeter
September 2011
- K3NG Keyer complete
- this doesn’t mean what you probably think it means
- oh i wish that citrix would stop changing its product names
- Futile Devices
- nice bike facilities
- K3NG Arduino Keyer
- a shortt detour
- drippy chippy
- it lives!
- Scottish Animation Genius
- Quite some sunset last night
- randomly remembered from the UK trip
August 2011
- I miss British advertising copy …
- for mac-owning light sleepers
- RIP Jack
- my inital impression of MS Office 2010
- UncleWiki
- Cheapo CW key
- Back from AZ
- Ham Radio Talk links
- analogue photo transfer over radio
- #nookfail
- essential index cards
- GTALUG: Ham Radio & Linux
July 2011
- The real cause of obesity today …
- It was just in the freezer for a little while … honest
- lookit them li’l doozers scoot!
- appropriate names for a kitten (male)
- “woohoo, we’re #5!!!”
- all the bikes I’ve ever owned
- okay, Google+, stop it now
- 100 clicks on a bixi
- one definite advantage of the Nook Color over the iPod Touch …
- doubletree weather
- Someone is *really* opposed to typography …
June 2011
- rootery nook
- Slightly Soggy Field Day
- (no subject required)
- pressing bixi question
- new music from Ken Reaume
- WordPress Custom Header
- a Nook Color-shaped brick
- mo’ mo’ baltimo’
- more balti
- Open Season on Open Letters
- Back in Baltimore
- happypoppies
- Tallgrass Pixels
- Only in Canada …
- Fixed WordPress memory problems on 1and1
- Banjo at home
- Gourd Banjo workshop, day 5: the last day and the finished product
- Gourd Banjo Workshop, Day 4
- “Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects” now free download
- Gourd Banjo Workshop: the third day
- Gourd Banjo Workshop: Day 2
May 2011
- Gourd Banjo Workshop, day 1
- who loves the sun?
- Space Gamelan
- Parsing ADIF with Perl
- The Accidental DXer
- This select and unusual band
- Baby groundhogs on Ashtonbee
- Bixing
- Life in (Feld) Hell: The Dot-Matrix Printer Heard ‘Round the World
- accidental solar panda butt kaleidoscope
- G5RV in the mist
- Solar Trackers at Earth Rangers
- Mario, the solar photographer
- My 30 Days of Biking
April 2011
- not some obscure radio signalling protocol
- don’t overcomplicate your sloth party …
- I ♥ D19
- first try with Inkscape
- not for spooky sounds
- out of my tree
- an expensive hobby
- vawt’s up with durham college?
- The groundhog is back
- Jetpack, you should know better …
- the silence of the hams
March 2011
- ExPlace Turbine Shutdown for Service
- chroma key screen grabs
- a ham i am!
- bike locker
- pity the lobster requirement
- ready to roll
- sad tag is sad
- roti frenzy, part II
- Main Steak House Deli
- An allegory. With reindeer.
- Québec
- hats off to Canada Computers!
February 2011
- Donating Rob Ford’s $60 bribe
- on the trail of the elusive Power Cost Monitor signal
- %e2%99%a1
- Life with Ardweeny
- the white details on a white background are a bit hard to make out …
- Emily’s castle cake
- this week, I have been mostly solderin’ …
- now *that’s* more like it …
- big trouble in little microSD
- solar light in deep snow
January 2011
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December 2010
- just look at this moose stamp
- goin’ up to eleven for twenty ten
- festive grid drain
- oh cyriak, what have you done now?
- lolcobol
- The Cleland rides again!
- just hope I didn’t get a wee girl’s christmas present by mistake
- 2010 contenders
- I didn’t see “worthwhile” in there
- perhaps my favourite yt video
November 2010
- done with emusic – or trying to be
- aah! my eyes!
- For St Andrew’s Day: Flower of Scotland
- Walking in the Parlour
- restored to life!
- ring ring ring ring zx spectrum phone
- YouTube – The Music Tapes – For the Planet Pluto
- the fabulous thunderbird
- Clive’s C5 for the 2010s
- ecofont: somebody drilled out a font
- Viviv – Passing Away 2010
- for perfect hotel sleeping …
- for all your powdered abe lincoln needs
- Flattr doesn’t work for me
- Why I didn’t vote for George Smitherman
October 2010
- Test-riding the Bixi
- Aye. Halloween. SCOTTISH
- the name of my band will be the radiological accident in tammiku
- now that’s a loaf
- And this is why I hate the music industry
- autumnal
- … that our fries were still there
- abstract lot fabric
- Hester the Moonlight Deer
- emusic canada changes its pricing
- … we stand in line for thee
- late bloomer
- Arduino Uno USB invisible to OS X
- if you can measure it …
- Dutch Bike Bits
- How Ink Is Made
September 2010
- unfortunately, he knows where I live, too …
- OED in the house
- HE’S GOT MY VOTE
- Netflix vs Zip.ca
- The Statesmen – Roo-buh-doo-buh-doo
- much improved HSV colour cycling LED on Arduino
- Bear
- Actually, I don’t think that the Notional Past was being ironic
- my little nerd whiskers are quivering
- Rowe Chester Banjo Capo
- HSV colour cycling LED on Arduino
- The Sharpie Liquid Pencil – massive letdown
- Steve Ellis’ Air-Trike
- OooOooh!
August 2010
- old computers, new computer
- squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
- Thumbs up for Offshore Wind!
- maybe a bit too much octave chorus
- My comments on the “Renewable Energy Approval Requirements for Off-shore Wind Facilities”
- To view Ubuntu Remote Desktop under OS X …
- Please Be Kind | Colleen and Paul
- Offshore Wind: much of Copenhagen is within 5km of offshore wind turbines
- Summer Heat Bugs
- banjo restoration project
- tall flower
- worst. turbine. sheltering. EVAR!!
- trams of old kansas city
- locust shell
July 2010
- YouTube – ME Pearl Presents PROPER OPOSSUM MASSAGE
- FREE ART
- Harvey, Arnie and me
- what NBC sounds like in canada
- The Windmill Farmer
- there’s something wrong with that boy
- this makes me happier than it really should
- Iggy the Cheese Monster
- now with added pointy
- aggressive-aggressive note
- Canada Day softball
- for those with their psycho-delic feet firmly in their psycho-delic shoes
- mississippi john dalek
June 2010
- Robyn Hitchcock Live at Dancebase on 2001-08-22 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Assembly Rooms on 2001-08-05 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- HTML Canvas string-rewriting fractal
- Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Assembly Rooms on 2001-08-04 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Assembly Rooms on 2001-08-03 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- The Smiths, Benny and me
- to protect the bank?
- Guess the iPhone app
- Augustus Carp: the e-book
- Robyn Hitchcock Live at The Drake on 2010-06-12 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
- The Real World of Scrawl
- Robyn Hitchcock live at The Drake, Toronto – 2010-06-11
- Updated: Augustus Carp, Esq: by Himself
- Robyn Covers Syd
- bixi bixi bixi bixi bixi bixi bixi bixi bixi bixi
- Back from Elliot Lake
May 2010
- in rouge park
- MeltdownHorrid – an unsettled, stereotyped font
- PoorFish: an apology font
- totoro shirt
- GrubblyScrub: a wax-resist font
- CPC – a provisional bitmap font
- best left unsaid
- FountainScrawl – yet another rubbish font
- AtkNoise – a corroded font
- Handwriting font example: CrapHand
- creating a TrueType font from your handwriting with your scanner, your printer, and FontForge
- you know your work browser is out of date …
- tiny font victory
- dammit!
- Puffin
- Telus signal, downtown Toronto
- Flatter: hopefully, not the Dexit of micropayments
April 2010
- Church of the Overweight Jesus
- some contour words
- Diddley bow: peghead detail
- will pretty much do anything for a cà phê sữa
- Canadian Comedy Central
- unimpressed cross-eyed robot
- bluffs bike ride
- Are unexpected whoopee cushion sounds funnier
- No-drill tremolo arm options for an American Standard Fender Telecaster
- Old Man Luedecke instore
- this is my blog, I can post an ICP video if I want to
- Somewhere between Fallowfield and Smith’s Falls
- well, that’s the seeds in
- not my car
- YouTube – The Answer – Paul Kaplan
- “keep your guitars close but your banjos closer”
- not available in your country
- at the acc
- Burnistoun
- poladroid madness
March 2010
- Tracks
- Sturmey Archer catalogue
- extremely silly classical banjo piece
- squirrel got a bun
- the scoop
- well, it would be a first …
- so who’s your favourite typographer/experimental musician?
- aquarium requiem
- No Canadian weather? That sucks, Asus!
- <sup>ping trouble with a long spoon
- oh the irony
- Catherine in Torontoist today
- it’s a transit routing algorithm!
- Gridlock Blues, by William Beauvais
- Chkn
- sometimes, I’m not sure if my colleagues understand me
- conservative bias at the CBC!!!111!!!
- life-changing roti experience
- RIP Michael Foot
- spring comes to toronto
February 2010
- trying to determine whether my side of the tracks is the right one
- jukebox sampler
- drinkalottawater
- she did a banjo album? she did a banjo album!
- ringthink
- Wind Turbine Syndrome: Myths and Facts Webinar | Windustry
- arach, no phobia
- Find The Place: a bloody waste of bloody time
- Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call … Well, No, Actually We Probably Won’t…
- out on the bike
- weirdness on a pirate dvd cover
- time hasn’t been kind to them
- invisible hitchcock
- toronto reference library
- I have another blog
- yes, he really was a staple on british television
- self-referential
- i suppose it looks a bit like a potato
- Micro Men
- now *that’s* a user interface
- bleakness at bluffer’s park
- best biscuits ever
- or maybe even a miror-image blue Gumby …
- actually, the internet is really made of mantids
- Amiga chiptune
- The lost art of the ramdisk
- elizabeth cotten in 1985
- as featured on the back of the 1645 yellow pages
- Here is a nice picture of an owl
- diary of a geonumpty
- harshing on the TTC at Osgoode
- amiga emulator for iPhone – sorta whee
- beacoup fish
- empty threat
- something went wrong
- actually quite happy to see this
- amiga: blank hdf images
- well, they did ask
- stick it up yer nose
- another hypotrochoid
- some svg hypotrochoids
- death from above 1941
- help for the Weston user in your life
- my juvenalia: 2D Star Dodge / Stardodger
- still the coolest thing ever
- Subnormality: Understanding Nuclear Weapons
January 2010
- cold war drives to the pharmacy
- because everyone needs their own numbers station
- something went wrong
- TTC Trip Planner
- embedded Old Man Luedecke
- old computer
- Dook of the Beatniks is in the house!!!
- Bill Rickard has a blog!
- implicit markup: easy to read, hard to parse
- oh dear …
- image rollover in wordpress, no plugins required
- Recoverfab – for all your memory card recovery needs
- mirrored along eglinton avenue i suppose it would look like an elevation of a hershey’s kiss
- OpenEI – Organizing the World’s Energy Information
- perhaps a slightly easier way to make SD cards bootable for CHDK under OS X
- no ironic dying from dysentery, either
- BaroBax – Baba To Ki Hasti
- Missouri 2009 pictures
- Wwdbd
- this document has layers
- in which Joe re-enacts his mother’s response to his father and sister’s canoe capsizing on the Des Moines River in 1982
- Low-tech Magazine: Urban windmills harm the environment
- to scan film, or not
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December 2009
- Unstable airline passenger ignites self; none hurt
- missöüri bird cälls
- slow motion maru
- “The Day Before Boxing Day” – Directed by Robyn Hitchcock & Hannah Bird
- eggs are not the only nog
- tammy’s scary hair
- just think
- i want my svg
- i wonder if these are as bad as i remember?
- just in case it gets deleted again …
- the subtle image editor in WordPress 2.9
- it worries me sometimes …
- nice, slightly amusing, try
- if you see a fork in the road
- International panel of experts conclude sound from wind turbines has no harmful effect on human health
- dropping nuclear reactors from a great height
- best of 2009 (top 10 for hexadactyls)
- Arnie play’s Bill’s new kit banjo
- it is of course part of some colossal oilpatch conspiracy
- banjo apostrophe catastrophe
- flat rat -splat- fancy that
- woodwork squeaks and …
- 2009 contenders
November 2009
- can you see the computer hidden in this picture?
- banjer banjer banjer
- cheque bookmark
- they bloody built it
- manifold: ur doin it wrong
- but no autotuning
- iRed Lite – Takes Apple Remote Further
- poppin’ panda heads
- Stuck at the Border / Unexpected Spector
- wrong in every possible (good) way
- cast a long shadow
- Calculating the second last Friday of the month
- cheap databases for Mac
- she’s a star in The Star
- less than ¼ the fat of a pint of 1% milk
October 2009
- wordpress visual editor not working?
- big-ass spider
- brontosaurus in my window
- I would *totally* go as the owl pellet
- The Drones of Scarborough Superstore
- renaming files to include datestamp
- Foo
- Save Chambers Harrap in Edinburgh
- she says I’m boring her camera
- like 8-bit on a green screen
- suprised by yellow flowers this late in the year
- some interesting doinks
- Gothpops: frozen treats for the doomed
- My Name is not Alvin
- autumnal
September 2009
- AddressBook 4.0 Help: Importing and exporting vCards
- cancon fail
- The Myth of the Sudbury Wind Hot-Spot
- Privilege CD
- Artwork by David Barnes
- CanWEA 2009
- the old familiar way
- Ink
- They really add something, you know?
- She’s so beautiful the love of my life. We drove into the sea …
- Energy Saving Trust’s field trial of domestic wind turbines
- Windsave, gone
- We’re not alone …
- Light cyan and light magenta
- My Homecoming Scotland 2009
- beautiful eye
- Hotlink protection of images with .htaccess
- R.O.U.S.
- hartford, arr. coole
- my, how you’ve grown!
- dulcimer reunion
August 2009
- jake foley’s wonderful banjos
- We found tastiness at Makkal Chon
- quite spicy for scarborough
- I’m crap at tracing
- slightly past the use-by date
- I don’t see the DO NOT WANT option …
- yeah, the commute was a bit poo …
- My last Korean canteen lunch …
- my beautiful neighbourhood
- NEW Series: Great Fax Machines of Wind Energy – #1: Zephyr North
- fiddling with the ground-glass
- shoulda twigged when they replied to both of my craigslist ads …
- in which stewart has too too much fun with a graphics tablet
- I have to donate a spare ukulele
- Hino bark chips, kinda
- I need to be a part of your emergency plan is not
- nothing says summer like …
- a hand with the circle of fifths
- bike ride, with rodents
- Mexican lemons promote road safety!
- Open letter to Jason Farris
- hate to think what’s going to happen on August 14th …
July 2009
- VIVIV Passing Away Ken Reaume
- Wind Turbine Transport | LEGO® Exclusives | LEGO Shop
- major annoyance – gone!
- steam trains
- my blog from 1976
- the moon; on being totally over it
- downtime
- for *all* occasions?
- no no related posts
- Bff
- slim pickens
- Whitelee
- essential food groups
- neater meter
- Wind Knitting Factory
June 2009
- it somehow makes me happy
- For All Your Pipeline Condition Assessment and Leak Detection Needs
- I’m all about the Black Sesame Soy Drink
- Global Wind Day
- spiders have flown
- how stained am i?
- 531 would never do this …
- Billy Faier – The Five String Banjo
- indoor windmill
- q happiness
- spiders on their birthday
- a very old place
- the automatic podcast, by sheevaplug
- the nearest, uh, wind things to my house
- adding long distance codes to Apple’s Address Book
- tasty korean noms
- mercifully gore free
- “Open”, “Save” or “Save As” dialog box default settings – Windows XP
- let’s hope not in the British sense …
May 2009
- tree light
- sweet nothings from nobody
- all part of a balanced diet
- oh the horror
- bellamania
- only in Scotland …
- smarter meter
- nine in the bed, and the little one said …
- Pix
- fast fixed-point MP3 encoder for ARM
- time to get MAD
April 2009
- awe-inspiring terminal output
- sheevaplug, I haz it
- Proclamations
- the undying love of a spammer
- good, not quite great
- wildlife and environs
- no service is not free service
- endearingly direct logo
- The return of Arthur
- canadian compact car
March 2009
- XTC as The Dukes Of Stratosphear
- i can has all the animals?
- bike, loader, snow
- a little bit on the toronto offshore wind farm and the Hélimax study
- first groundhog of 2009
- well, actually, currently none of the words
- few ties are awesome – this one just might be
- WordPress 2.7.1 Upgrade Failed on 1and1.com?
- Linda Parker Hamilton — The Northern Nightingale: A Canadian Whistler
- the perils of tidyness
- is it about a bicycle?
- sheevaplug
- not the estonian composer
- Bob Briehl, the autoharp man in Canada
- little monster
- the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from
- George Stewart
- gerald, the tiny fish
February 2009
- clean coal funnies
- ah
- too many instruments
- how does he do that?
- Nobody Waved Good-bye by Don Owen, – NFB
- hot off the press: Green Energy and Green Economy Act 2009
- Ken Reaume gives away his early discography
- sometimes you just have to …
- Frag
- That’s $34,600 per parking space …
- out on my bike
- rather a new wearer of clothes
- the glowing-eyed teddy bear of DOOM!!!!!!!!!
- the revving gasmeter of walmer road
- acme of acmes
- How to select broken URLS from e-mail
- timed screen grabs (with mouse pointer) on OS X
- no zapf, dingbats aplenty
January 2009
- an idea whose time has not come, and probably never will
- in a daria marathon
- clifton hicks
- needless to say I rather liked it
- Unix Timestamp 1234567890
- stewart’s rule of home networking
- CHDK on Canon PowerShot SD790
- Lucky
- i really do remember when all this was fields: fresh sweet cron
- the action verbs of the Bush administration (according to the Bush administration)
- emacs: replacing newlines
- inexplicable snow balloons
- A Nobel Peace Prize for Pete Seeger
- AAAAAA+++!!!! WOULD VOTE AGAIN!!!!
- Pricey
- blues minus the blues
- mandolin strata
- a green Scottish New Year dilemma