My internet connectivity has been down for a little over a week now (crossing fingers that it gets fixed sometime today). As a result, I’ve had a little more “free” time on my hands lately. I’ve been thinking about drawing a comic for quite some time, but never seemed to find the time until now.
I […]

Episode 065 is up. In this one I create some LCD digits from scratch and demonstrate the use of grids and grid snapping along the way.
I really thought this one would be short. But somehow it managed to get to the 17 or 18 minute mark. These things always end up being longer than they […]

Today the internet once again proved to be the best thing ever. At least for a 40 year old techie guy in the mood for reminiscing.
These are several of the toys of my youth, and in many cases, my introduction to the world of personal electronic entertainment:
Tomy Digital Derby: Ahh.. scrolling transparent tape and a […]

I’ve had a Friendfeed account for just over a month now. Up until now I haven’t really given it a second look. But as Twitter seems to be stumbling from one problem to the next, I’m taking a closer look at Friendfeed, and it’s looking very interesting.
I think it’s great that I can have my […]

Back on our May long weekend, we decided to opt for conservative parenting and didn’t take our daughter to see the fireworks (too late and too little sleep we figured), but we made the promise that she’d definitely get to see them on Canada Day. So last night we went.
While Em, along with hundreds of […]

I like Firefox, I really do. Version 3 has a lot of cool features, and runs very stable on both my XP system at work and my Ubuntu system at home. But…
Firefox3 is a huge memory hog.
I regularly see 140+ MB of memory being used by FF on both my Linux and XP systems. This […]