I think most of my techy friends have moved onto Google Chrome at this point, but I’m still a bit of a Firefox die-hard.
These are my favourite add-ons which I believe aren’t as popular as things like AdBlock, and might be of use to you.
1. The best theme I’ve come across so far is “TwentyTen”
It’s [...]
Procrastinating a bit from some contract work I need to get done tonight.
I’d seen Amazon Kindles in person a few times, and was absolutely blown away by the quality and legibility of the text on the screen. I didn’t get to spend that much time with them though to really get a feel for the [...]
I’d been meaning to write about Avatar for some time since I’d seen it, as none of the reviews/articles/criticisms I’d seen on it quite captured my thoughts. Now this Macleans article, by Brian D. Johnson, captures them far more succinctly than I could manage: Why Haven’t You Seen Avatar Yet?
The only thing I’d really like [...]
I picked up a BlackBerry a couple weeks ago. The impetus was that I started a new job with heavily-monitored internet, and an extremely restrictive firewall. I wanted to avoid trouble with my new employer and couldn’t deal with being completely cut off for over half the waking day. Suddenly having no access to personal [...]
I can’t believe I didn’t think to write about this before. At the time, it didn’t occur to me to take a photo until I was half done the glass…
Over a month ago I had the pleasure of attending the official launch party for Dieu du Ciel!’s, a Montréal-based brewpub, products in Ontario at Bar [...]
Part 1
How do you prepare a lather?
In classic shaving, you have a choice of cheap plain boar brushes ($15-25), or badger brushes. Badger brushes are generally broken down into, ‘pure badger’ ($23-40), ‘best badger’ ($40-60) and ’silvertip’ ($60-300+). There are also synthetic brushes ($20-60) available for vegans ($1).
Boar brushes are stiff; pure badger are soft; [...]
It’s awesome.
The general online sentiment however is that this device is a pile-of-crap, that you’re “a motherfucking idiot if you buy that piece of shit,” etc.
I really don’t get it. One caveat: I upgraded from a PSP-1001. Things like physical dimensions, and the extra memory cache present in the 2000 & 3000 series devices I [...]
Another post, another blog category. Totally inconsequential too, but hey, it’s a hobby.
IGN has reviewed the new portable Gran Turismo game, and assuming the reviewer didn’t miss something painfully obvious, gave it a fair, relatively low 6.8/10 score. The main complaint is that the game lacks a “career mode,” instead making all 800 cars available [...]
This is one of those posts where I hope random Googlers find it and may be able to offer some insight. Alternatively, hopefully I’ll be able to fix this eventually and offer a solution. [While writing this post I discovered it was in fact iTunes that broke my drives. It just adds to the hatred [...]