Some of you may have noticed that I put a microblog section up on my blog [1] in the top menu. μ is the greek letter that represents the word “micro”, so I used that because I think it’s kind of fun.
It’s based loosely on the lifestream that Matt and Dale whipped up over [...]

As most of you know, I really enjoy photography. I have been fortunate enough to have received a bit of recognition for some of the shots I’ve done, and even managed to attend the 2008 Canadian Juno Awards [1] as a photographer.
I thought I’d post a few of my favourite shots here [...]

A couple really quick updates since I’m busy at work right now. I’ve added a few small features to the website. First, you can now subscribe to comments on posts via email. I’ve actually had a few requests by technies in the last little while for this, and I think it’s a [...]

For those of you who actually come to my site from time to time, you’ll have undoubtedly noticed my little counter in the right corner of the sidebar. What that tracks is how long my website has been active in the corner of my living room. If you’re on a paid [...]

Up until about a year ago, I used to comment entirely using the name “Duane”. There wasn’t really any big motivation for doing so, it was simply something I was used to doing from my old IRC chats. At one point though, I realized that it seemed a bit weird leaving [...]

After setting up my RAID 5 array last night, I decided that maybe I would take a stab at self hosting my blog again. Up until two years ago, I had always run my blog from home. It’s not really that hard to set up your own Apache server, and Linux can [...]

I spent most of the last hour on the couch, just thinking by candlelight. It was a nice break from the norm, having a dark apartment sans the sound of computer fans spinning or other randomness that goes beep in the night.
Looking out my window, it’s hard to tell just how many [...]

Today I took the plunge and quickly upgraded my Wordpress installation from 2.3.3 to the Beta for 2.5. In terms of look and feel on the front-end, I doubt you’ll notice any major changes (especially on sites where you don’t have to login). However, they’ve completely overhauled the administration section in the [...]