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Hammered Dulcimer
My hammered dulcimer is finally complete! Well… almost. There’s a few more things that need to be done, including replacing the bass bridge, finishing the very rough hammers, and learning how to play it. I’ve posted some pictures at my Dulcimer gallery. Specifically, a full pictures of the finished product, a view from the players…
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comment spam fix
A while back I wrote about the comment spam plague that affects a lot of blogs, including mine. One of the reasons that comment spam exists is to boost the spammer’s site rankings in Google. Some of the blog software vendors and Google have gotten together and released a way of fixing the site rankings,…
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offsets
Offsets are the plague-of-the-week in my life. At work, we’re having trouble with messaging, seems some of the message headers are messed up, some of the bytes are offset by one. It causes all sorts of havoc like messages not going where they’re supposed to and other such grief. At home, I realized all the…
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obfuscated
obfuscated: To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand The art of obfuscation in programming is very interesting, and is often done to protect vital intellectual capital. In Google’s case, as I wrote about previously, the nature of web pages demands that part of their Google Suggest code is…
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google suggest
Just when you thought Google was the answer (what’s the question?), they come up with auto-complete on a web page. Have a look here. It’s the regular Google page, except with autocomplete included. Those of you who have done any web design or programming know how difficult this is to code. There’s a good explanation…
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Categories
As of this post, this blog will contain both technical and personal writing. If you are interested in only one or the other, please use the links Personal: https://www.gybe.ca/index.php?cat=2 Technical: https://www.gybe.ca/index.php?cat=4 And if you don’t care, then continue using the same links as before. As always, the categories are also available on the sidebar.
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picture of the week
The discerning reader will quickly realize that this blogger has failed miserably in his quest of posting a picture of the week. So far the posting rate is around 1 in 29 years. Some quick extrapolation shows the picture isn’t due until 2035. Hark, what is that sound? Why, it’s the sound of not one,…
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MAPS
On Saturday Jodie (my lovely better half) and I attended the annual awards dinner for the Mcmaster Association of Parttime Students (MAPS)… Jodie won a scholarship for having one of the top 5 running averages of the 2400 or so students. That’s not the top 5%, but the top 5, as in 1,2,3,4,5! Congratulations Jodie!
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Lucas Gerbrand Hart
I have been remiss in announcing the arrival of my nephew, Lucas Gerbrand Hart. Born to Brian and Alanna, fourth grandson to my parents, he looks like a really cute little guy. Unfortunately he lives 500km or so away, so it’ll be a few more weeks until I can vouch for this myself. Congratulations Brian…