I do a mean paneed chicken and tonight I tried making a wild mushroom and white wine sauce to go over it. I nailed it, and then re-learned the lesson I teach myself every time I do this. I always sear off my chicken breasts and then finish them in…
Yesterday I had meetings from the start of my day until the end, and by the time I finished it was clear I was going to get nothing done. So I went to join Chris' Mozilla class to see how their builds were going. Various networking issues and broken tests…
John Selmys just mailed to say that the Linux Club will be holding an InstallFest on Saturday Jan 26. Doors open at 10:00 am, and you're asked to sign-in at the registration desk in SEQ. Please register before coming. For those of you in the Mozilla courses running Linux…
Danny Roy emailed me to ask that I let my students know about the first meeting of the Windows Club. Danny's got some cool development ideas, and it sounds like they are going to be doing some interesting work together: Windows Club will hold an organizational meeting on Wednesday January…
Nelson Ko just dropped me a line to say that the following event is taking place: There will be a mega wiki day on Tuesday, February 12th 2008 in Toronto, Canada along with the regular http://TorontoWikiTuesdays.com Anyone interested in Wikis near Toronto or related to the SUMO project,…
Recently I had the opportunity to take my two girls away on vacation for 3 days, and let my wife have a much needed rest and some time to herself at home. It's something that I've been dreaming about doing ever since we had kids, and it's fantastic that they…
Some students have reported problems getting onto IRC and specifically into #seneca. The reason for this is that we have changed the channel's mode such that only registered users (i.e., nicks) can join. This was done to stop an endless barrage of spambots from joining and leaving the channel.…
I've made the switch, and I'm loving it. I've put my old rig in storage. Good riddance!…
Yesterday on boingboing there was a great post about the children's illustrator Bob Staake, and how he does all his work digitally using Photoshop 3.0--that's 1994 vintage in case you're not up on your releases. There are numerous videos on-line showing him use his tool of choice to draw…
I'm enjoying David Eaves' blog and his top 10 personal blogging moments for 2007. So far he's made it to #7, and given the date of this post, I think #1 may well be: "finishing my top 10 before midnight New Year's Eve...just!" I like David's writing…