Author Archives: matt

So there’s a novel that I had to read back in my high school days called “Bonheur D’Occasion” by Gabrielle Roy. The English title is “The Tin Flute”; I don’t recall that there was actually a tin flute in the … Continue reading →

I’m back in the Home Town for the Xmas week. One consequence of this is that I’m limited to dial-up speeds. This is problematic, since it seems that the entire internet is now not meant to run on dial-up speeds. … Continue reading →

So to set the scene: I flew Out West for the American Thanksgiving this year, as is my wont. And riding around the highways of the city in question with the UCoS my host, we’re quite naturally surfing the FM … Continue reading →

OK, so this is something that’s been bugging me for something like six years now, ever since the first time I had to program with Excel in a corporate setting. Microsoft Excel is, in many ways, a nice program. It’s … Continue reading →

Gah. Stupid cookie-based semi-stateless web applications. My original post was more interesting, but here’s the summary: sorry for the lack of updates, on the off-chance that someone’s reading it. Expect a more active blog no later than the new year.

So in case anyone is reading this site, you’re probably wondering just what the hell was up yesterday. The answer has to do with DNS and corporate slowpokiness. And it’s not really all that interesting — even to those of … Continue reading →

The Toronto Star has an article today about new right-wing union between the soon-to-be-former PC and Alliance parties. The new group’s name will be the “Conservative Party of Canada”. I suspect that this may be a mistake on the part … Continue reading →

I just listened to the somewhat abortive Bill O’Reilly interview on NPR’s Fresh Air last week. All in all, quite an interesting meeting of the minds. First of all, I’d just like to say that, if that was a hatchet … Continue reading →

So I just got a phone call for a previous holder of my phone number… a “wrong number”, in the vernacular. This in itself is not that unusual; I’ve been averaging one such call every week since I got the … Continue reading →

You know, upon reflection it seems very odd to me that there’s such a strong alliance between the so-called “neo-conservatives” and the Christian Right. I mean, I’m certainly no theologian, but I perceive some definite conflicts between the neocon world-view … Continue reading →