Life Gen Con Advice From A First Timer This year was our first Gen Con, we got housing but only at a hotel by the airport. There is zero traffic so driving in was easy and parking if you got there around 9am was reasonable and available. I heard lots of complaints
Life Rant On Raising a Gifted Child Note: This rant was originally posted to a mailing list about beer after a long thread of ill-informed and ignorant messages were exchanged on gifted children. I'm a dad, and I have a gifted child. Its not a competition, nor is it necessarily a
Hardware A Modern Programming Operating System [Part 2] [Please also check out Part 1] In this new post about a modern programming operating system I'm going to comment on what a flood of people gave me in the comments on the post and on Hacker News. I'm very thankful for the overwhelming
Hardware A Modern Programming Operating System I was reminiscing about my childhood and computers in comparison to what my own children have. How booting up the Vic20 and later the C128 and being presented with nothing more than a blue screen and a flashing cursor prompting me to type in
Software Postfix TLS Errors Ive been seeing this in my local postfix log: Dec 10 08:46:50 totoro.local postfix/smtp[59905]: Untrusted TLS connection established to smtp.gmail.com[74.125.142.109]:587: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits It wasn't harmful, mail still
Music My Top 12 Albums of 2012 Here are my top 12 albums for 2012, they are no in order as I consider them all great for varies reasons :) I also included a couple of bonus items that came out as an EP or a single. Lana Del Rey - Born
Blogging/Podcasting Re-blogging Decided to restart the ol'blog. I'm getting kind of fed up with Twitter and Facebook isn't the right platform for posts on a technical level. I thought of using Google+ but the thought of maintaining yet another social network didn't sound like the right
dogs Watson :'( RIP Watson ?-2009 As some of you may or may not beaware of, one of our dogs Watson got very sick about 6 days ago and was not eating and we got very worried about him. The new Mahalo Answers community rallied around him
appendix Poor Aidan's Appendix On Saturday at 7:45PM Aidan buckled over in pain which we dismissed as bad gas pains and just watched him carefully through the night. On Sunday we took him into emerg where he didn't react to any physical exam and blood, urine and
canada Canadian Liberal Party Enters A Legal Coup Position The Canadian Liberal Party enters a Legal coup position, what I mean by that is by forming a coalition party with the NDP and with written support from the Bloc they can legally overthrow the current sitting Conservative Party Government for power! As far
Blogging/Podcasting Podcasting on the iPhone/iPod Touch It looks like we are all going to get Podcasts over the air via the iPhone/iPod Touch in the very near future and thats both good news and bad news. A while ago a 3rd party developer released an app to the app
design Mahalo's New Site Design! We launched a new version of our homepage and overall site design today and are no longer in beta! Its a big day for us here at Mahalo HQ and I hope you all enjoy it. Below is a screenshot tour of the new
2008 Election Questions For Local Halton MP Candidates (2008) Back in 2004 I wrote an email to all my Halton MPs and asked them 4 questions, this election I felt compelled to do it again! As with last time I will write each response below the question as I recieve them, here is
My Dev Projects Nucleus 2 I'm starting to look at doing a Nucleus 2.0 which will be designed around getting online content into the Apple TV What it will need to do is the following: Fetch torrents from an RSS feed based on keywords Download said torrents (should
Hardware What I think Web 3.0 Will Be I have a different take on what Web 3.0 will be. Some think its an edited version of wisdom of crowds (the basis of web 2.0), and that's already happening especially at the company I work for Mahalo. If you look at
Blogging/Podcasting iPod Touch Blogging Wow this is pretty cool when you get good blogging software for a devicethat fits in the palm of your hand :) granted I could blog from my old palm 3 but it was never this easy!
Life WALL-E "Saving the world became secondary to the power of holding hands. There is an amazing amount of life and humanity throughout and a quality message to boot." -- Jeff Bayer Shannon, Aidan and I went to see this on Friday night, and
Blogging/Podcasting Mahalo Supports Wiki Auto-Discovery Edit Button As seen in the below video Mahalo now supports the Wiki Auto-Discovery button. Which is a button that indicates to you quickly and easily that you can also contribute to this page!
howto How To Do Stuff Have some fun this summer with these great How Tos from the How To team over at Mahalo this week! Enjoy over the summer with friends and family :) How to Make Spring RollsHow to Make Bread PuddingHow to Make a White Russian How to
large files Search and Replace With Python Today I had a large (re: 4GB) file that I needed to do some search and replace on, and none of my text editors including my beloved Textmate could even open the file. So I turned to the most trusty of tools in my
Uncategorized Condolences to C.A. Sizemore Friend and co-worker Chris Miller just posted about one of his fans wife of his podcast has passed away, and learned of such fact via Twitter. Here is the full story reposted as well as a link to chip in to a fund to
Uncategorized GTA IV Leaked I have to admit, these games are fun. I don't tend to play GTA as a story, I just like jacking cars and shooting at things. I rememeber GTA I and how bad the graphics were but also how fun it was to play.
Blogging/Podcasting Mevio? I actually liked the name PodShow, but now they renamed themselves to Mevio. I guess Metube was already taken... we already know youtube was. Here is a slogan for you Adam: "Mevio: Video for the me generation"
august trometer Releasing iPX Python Code As Is. I'm releasing the iPodderX Python codebase As-Is under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. This is the codebase that was to go into Transistr, it has never seen the light of day before now and has not seen much testing. I
august trometer Did iTunes Kill iPodderX? Before we start, lets first start with a picture: This shows sales over a 4 year period. The 3rd blip right at the end was iPodderX going away and was suppose to turn into Transistr. When iTunes 4.9 was announced, August and I
