Blogs from the Edge of the Earth

Dean's Blog Politics | Saturday January 19, 2008 | By deandoll

Well, it seems over there in Ontario, Mayor Miller is in a wee bit of a snit. I won't make light of the circumstances that have stoked his fire, as shootings by criminals should not be tolerated. But that is exactly the case. Mr Miller has a blanket...

Dean's Blog General | Friday December 07, 2007 | By deandoll

Well, the company Christmas party is over, which means that it's time to post up a review of the restaurant we ate at last night. It was a newcomer to Calgary, Alloy Restaurant located at 220 42nd Av SE of all places. It's been open for 6 weeks so far, and...

Dean's Blog Hmm.. | Monday November 26, 2007 | By deandoll

People are not like electricity or water, because those latter two things will take the easiest route to whatever it is they need to get to next. Water, for example, is quite lazy and will always go downhill rather than uphill, and electricity is always...

Douglas' Weblog Linux | Thursday November 22, 2007 | By dr

There's no silver bullet when it comes to software, hardware, operating systems or complete systems. Fanatics, especially Mac fanatics, will tell you that Mac is that silver bullet, but truly smart people know better. Take this brief blog entry about ...

Douglas' Weblog Flying | Wednesday November 21, 2007 | By dr

Since purchasing my share of a Piper Cherokee Six earlier this year , I've been trying to build time flying in it. I haven't really been trying hard as it's been a rather busy year between changing jobs, trips to Africa and other exciting places like South...

Douglas' Weblog General | Tuesday November 06, 2007 | By dr

I went down to the new Alberta Court House building in Calgary on 5 Street SW this afternoon to pay an overdue parking ticket (don't get me started on parking tickets -- it wasn't mine). The building is very modern looking on the outside and is even more so on...

Dean's Blog General | Friday October 05, 2007 | By deandoll

I don't download music from file sharing sites. The reason? Despite going against my rough moral fiber, the quality is terrible. Here is the beef. The 128kbps Song you downloaded sounds fine on your crappy computer speakers, but slap on a set of studio...

Dean's Blog General | Thursday September 27, 2007 | By deandoll

Actually this blog entry has nothing to do with sharks. I just thought it was a cool title I could rip off from a recent documentary. Although as far as things that could still be working, I might be referencing my ancient computer, on which I do all of...

Douglas' Weblog General | Tuesday September 25, 2007 | By dr

The last 24 hours for me have been an emotional roller coaster, for a variety of reasons -- some work, some personal, and some very personal. But the reasons that relate to this post are a result of my time in the Army. Yesterday afternoon I received a large...

Dean's Blog General | Friday August 31, 2007 | By deandoll

Well, it looks like I no longer have to really worry about Calgary Transit, which is nice, as we purchased a new car, and now having 2 cars, can zip about burning up fossil fuels and avoiding the sounds of teenage girls, very late buses, and "Attention Calgary...

Douglas' Weblog alsa dell ubuntu | Linux | Tuesday August 21, 2007 | By dr

I managed to get sound working using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy beta) on my Dell Latitude D830 a few weeks ago but hadn't documented it. I didn't document it because I basically hacked out a solution that involved compiling a kernel of my own and including the Intel...

Douglas' Weblog blogging roller | General | Thursday August 16, 2007 | By dr

I finally got around to installing the new version of Apache Roller (formerly called Roller Weblogger), which has now been accepted as an Apache Software Foundation project. The new version has a bunch of new features but the most noticeable of these...

Dean's Blog General | Friday August 10, 2007 | By deandoll

Great Googly Moogly. If you're going to have a gigantic construction zone, with a 50 kph speed limit, and no actual construction going on for the past 2 months, remove the stupid speed limit! We're not all dumb, and we know that the sign that says...

Dean's Blog General | Tuesday August 07, 2007 | By deandoll

Well, happy times on the homestead. This weekend I test drove a new Volkswagen Golf, which was nice, as it feels like a car that was engineered by engineers and assembled in an actual factory, rather than by a bunch of farmers in a clearing. However I think...

Douglas' Weblog Linux | Wednesday July 11, 2007 | By dr

I got a new Dell Latitude D830 laptop for work last week and decided that Kubuntu was what I would run on it. However, to date there seems to be little in the way of documenting their install of Linux on the D830, so here's a start. And I'll try to update...