I was updating the software the runs this blog (a slightly customized version of the sturdy and reliable WordPRess that I have installed on a shared host), when I happened to notice that I haven’t actually posted anything since the middle of October. In fact, it’s been a day over two months since I last […]
So, a few weeks ago I mentioned that Facebook had crossed my annoyance vs. usefulness threshold, and that I would essentially be no longer using the service. Or, at the very least, scaling way back on how much I was using the service. Given how pervasive the service is, and how much a role it […]
Went out camping this weekend with my wife and daughter. It was a bit of a last minute thing, really didn’t decide we were going to do it until late in the week, when we saw how good the forecast was, and I had to hold off actually leaving until almost noon on Saturday because […]
Due to one of those weird “Only in the corporate world” things, I got a bonus because, essentially, someone else didn’t screw up. Wasn’t for anything great I had done. So, I’m having that person over for a BBQ this afternoon (which will probably be done by the time I get around to finishing and […]
Why does Charlie Sheen get all the credit? Haven’t we all had that “Bitchin’ Rock Star from Mars” kind of feeling? Sure, I’ll give him full credit for coining the phrase. But all of us have done something, pulled off some kind of stunt, that gave us that (temporary) feeling of total awesome. Maybe […]
I nicknamed this fractal “wheat-field” – and if you look at the full size image, it isn’t hard to tell why. Wheat-fields, aside from reminding me of long, boring drives across the prairies, remind me of my early teens. I spent a decent chunk of my summers in those years visiting one uncle or another […]
I colour shifted this fractal a bit. It reminds me of a slightly distorted Yin without the accompanying Yang. (Or is it Yang without the Yin?) I was flipping through my feeds, and came across an interesting bit of a rant against Facebook and they’re poor security implementation on a security research blog. I found […]
This is kind of an ugly fractal – something I rendered out from XaoS, ran through some colour shifting, de-selected the centre, and then distorted the heck out of the surrounding field. Can’t even remember what fractal it was based on, other than I seem to remember zooming in near endlessly on a tiny dot. […]
I took a couple of days off from posting, so let’s get back into the swing of things with some vague thought waving. I spend far too much time reading tech-centric news and forums. And one of the things that strikes me, is how often the tech pundits, professional journalists, and industry insiders so completely […]
I really, really, like this fractal. It has a beautiful colour palette, and the texture resembles brush strokes. Normally, it would be really easy to get me going on a rant about the pointlessness of modern art. Randomly slapping a paint brush against a canvas, throwing paint at a wall sized canvas, etc., to me, […]