Month: March 2004

After finally getting the Server restored, and working the next 16 hours, I’m off on a previously booked ski trip to Quebec city. And trying not to think, too much, about the looming deadline. I love deadlines, and the get Continue reading How to earn a week of Skiing….the hard way→

I’m going to jinx myself but, I’ve gotten no spam today, where I would “normally” get 20 to 40 pieces (most caught by my filters). Is this a national Span holiday? Is there a conference of spammers going on? Are Continue reading Where have all the spammers gone?→

Via A random blog: “The startup mentality. comes Why are there Serial Entrepreneurs? ‘Being part of a start-up is about more than get-rich-quick dreams. It’s an emotional commitment to a hurried, harried, adrenaline-driven way of working. For those who can Continue reading The Starup Insanity→

In the hope of having happier thoughts : the Globe and Mail, Globetechnology reports on “Broadband at warp speed” Using 2 new upgraded technologies BCI (Bell Canada) hope to provide 16 megabits a second in early 2004, and 22 mbps Continue reading Very Ultra DSL, really soon.→

I heard this early this morning from the radio. More details onThe Globe and Mail. Bloody hell. Made all the more awful by the fact that Elicia and I where at the Atocha train station station last November, arriving from Continue reading 170 people Dead, and 600 wounded by bombing in Madrid→

Via New Scientist: “Robot builder could ‘print’ houses” A robot for “printing” houses is to be trialled by the construction industry. It takes instructions directly from an architect’s computerised drawings and then squirts successive layers of concrete on top of Continue reading Robot builder could ‘print’ houses→