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  • Weekly Workouts: April 8 – 14, 2013

    Tracked a Workout for 569 pts on Apr 9, 2013 Walking (treadmill): 1:30:40 || 5 mi || 125 BPM || 20 % (+569 pts)

  • Gabrielle-Roy Sign Vandalism

    I was driving through the neighbourhood when I saw that the local hoodlums had been busy playing at the schoolyard. Here are some shots of the carnage:

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2013-04-11

    April 5: Roger Ebert dead. Keith Richards, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Stacy Keach, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister and Aerosmith: still alive. #WTF -> Hosting all your own tools kicks ass. This week: I dropped Dropbox and stopped reading Reader. Twitter: you’re probably safe… 😉 -> RT @HarvardBiz: You’re Probably Wrong About How Others Really See…

  • Weekly Workouts: April 1 – 7, 2013

    Tracked a Workout for 625 pts on Apr 1, 2013 Walking (treadmill): 1:29:03 || 6 mi || 20 % (+625 pts)

  • My Favourite Linux Commands

    As a child of the DOS era, I’ve always been comfortable communicating with a computer without a mouse.  Most of my use of Linux is via a desktop environment (KDE and Xfce are my favourites), but I still like to be able to do certain tasks in a terminal window.  Here’s a list of commands…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2013-04-04

    Happy birthday, Cellular! 5 major moments in cellphone history – CBC News http://t.co/Vn4LilRR4m (I certainly don’t, but you might) – Why you hate the sound of your own voice – http://t.co/ZfJzXBDbIN via @Ottawaguy & @kaykas

  • Weekly Workouts: March 25 – 31, 2013

    Tracked a Workout for 846 pts on Mar 25, 2013 Walking (treadmill): 1:44:20 || 7 mi || 135 BPM || 20 % (+846 pts) Tracked a Workout for 965 pts on Mar 26, 2013 Walking (treadmill): 1:57:05 || 8.2 mi || 132 BPM || 20 % (+965 pts) Tracked a Workout for 671 pts on Mar 27, 2013 Walking (treadmill): 1:24:29 || 6 mi || 136 BPM ||…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2013-03-28

    How to Convert an Old PC into a Modern Server | PCWorld http://t.co/O2JJa0KacD #FreeNAS #FreeBSD -> NAS4Free – A fork of FreeNAS 7 with *very modest* hardware requirements. http://t.co/FkvV8ZIzpT -> Don't believe everything you read on nutrition labels – http://t.co/peAZBjAMHS -> My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: The Dandy Warhols (1), No Doubt (1) & Shakira…

  • Tiny Tiny RSS as a Google Reader Replacement

    Since Google broke the news that it was discontinuing its RSS reader due to declining usage and “privacy concerns”, I’ve been searching for a replacement.  I looked at the web-hosted alternatives and while they each had particular appeal, none seemed worth the effort. Google Reader may not have been the fanciest or most feature-rich platform,…