Monthly Archives: December 2003

I’ve recently upgraded from Jaguar to Panther. If you have no idea what I just said, then you need to get hip. So far I’m very happy with the change. The tweaks to the UI are all improvements as far … Continue reading →

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.