Dinner with a computer historian

I met up with Jason Scott [http://ascii.textfiles.com] last night to have a bit of a chat with the man behind textfiles.com [http://www.textfiles.com]. I say in the title that Jason is a computer historian, because he is... textfiles.com is his personal (yet public)

NORAD Tracks Santa

NORAD Tracks Santa [http://www.noradsanta.org/] is a site done by NORAD, that helps kids track where Santa is around the world, and if he is close they can run off to bed. Anyways I'd like to wish everyone a Happy Holidays from our family to yours.

Name change

As some might have noticed, I changed the name of this blog from "Thrawn's Weblog" to "The Slakinski Log" why you ask? Simple I am finally retiring the handle "Thrawn"

Icky

The past couple of days I've been feeling kinda icky, my head feels like its going to pop off and my nose is already imploded. Blech. But this is my last day of work, which helps me feel better... I'm off for the rest of the

Permalinks less perma

With the rebuild of the movable type database, all permalinks that existed prior to the rebuild are no longer. Please use this sites search tool on the sidebar to re-search for the article you were looking for if in fact you were looking for a previously posted article. Sorry for

Buy a silver car, its safer?

According to this study [http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/327/7429/1455], one should buy a silver or white colored car as it is least likely to get in to an accident... Tell that to Emu [http://emu.sdf1.net] > Globally, road traffic crashes kill about 3000

The Twelve Days of Bloging

The Bradlands [http://www.bradlands.com/] brings us "The Twelve Days of Blogging [http://www.bradlands.com/misc/twelveDaysWeblog.html]" go check it out. (I know, I have been making you click here and there all day... I just got my blog back so no complaining, I'

One nice little PC

Check this out, the Mach 3.8 [http://www.go-l.com/desktops/machl38/features/index.htm] from go-l.com [http://www.go-l.com] is one neat machine, packed with more features than I could possibly list here. Its expensive, I mean really expensive but its nice to look at and

Red Hat and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats?

Ok this may be old news to some, but its new to me. On October 7th/2003 Red Hat [http://www.redhat.com] co-founder Bob Young joined up with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats [http://www.tigercats.on.ca] as the owner. It turns out that Bob is a Hamilton native, who

Scoble's in my brain

I read Scoble's weblog [http://scoble.weblogs.com/] all the time, its a great blog with lots of tidbits of useful info. After reading his blog for a while, I want to buy a TabletPC, but I have no need for one of these "toys" and