http://bregmasoft.ca/blog Life in the Back Woods Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:40:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm sitting here in my log cabin in the woods east back of nowhere. There is a 48" jack frame loom on one side of me, a spinning wheel in use on the other side, and high speed on my lap. Yes, that's right, high speed internet has finally landed ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=78 We live on the glint line, where the Canadian Shield meets the flat bottom of the pleistocene Champlain sea. We get a mixture of wildlife native to both biomes. This can make for interesting and frequent encounters. Sunday we were out for a bike ride and came across a ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=76 I'm sitting in the San Diego airport. It's about 0630 local time. The bar behind me is crowded. Most of the patrons seem to have coffee (there's a Starbuck's opposite in the boarding lounge. There are a significant proportion of people with beer. It's 0630 ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=73 Monday morning, first thing, I get an email telling me I need to go to San Diego on Tuesday for some "integration work" (the meaning of which is unclear and neerose.dn't be clarified for the purposes of this post). I needed to get a passport. Yes, yes, I was supposed ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=70 The house in which I live was randomly renovated over the years by a tribe of do-no-good piskies. These wee folk managed to rearrange the waste pipes that run between the main stack and the outlet to the septic in such a way that it actuall runs up hill ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=67 The time has come to tell a little story about one of my pasttimes over the last few months. A few months ago I got a call from the bank telling me my debit card had been locked because someone had been detected as defrauding my account. Fair enough, I ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=65 This is the best summary of what's going on on Parliament Hill I have yet to find. http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=63 Last Thursday I spent the day at a knitting workshop led by Brandon Mably, including lunch and an evening with Kaffe Fassett. These two men have a wonderful (or, in their words: glorious, exciting, delicious) sense of colour and of the benefits of simplicity. I am a big ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=61 First off, I'm going to grumble again about my hosting provider. It seems they're "100% uptime" guarantee uses a different sort of math than the one I studied in school. It's closer to 97% by my calculation, and they don't even update their status page. Anyways, on to todays ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=58 I watches the Election 2008 Leaders' Debate on television last night. I was incredibly disappointed. The participants engaged in constant ad homined attacks, particularly on the Prime Minister. The media pundits loved it, just as they loved it when there was just unintelligible noise when everyone was talking at the same ... http://bregmasoft.ca/blog/?p=56