Advogato blog for psj

30 Jan 2002

Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:58:56 GMT

First solo flight! It's a strange notion, being by yourself in an airplane that's actually flying.

Fortunately the traditional bucket of water over the head did not follow, as it was about -12C in Ottawa today, and I would have had to have been taken to the hospital for thawing.

24 Dec 2001

Mon, 24 Dec 2001 20:56:37 GMT

happy birthday!

22 Nov 2001

Thu, 22 Nov 2001 20:29:03 GMT

Stalls and circuits. Beats working!

12 Jul 2001

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:40:21 GMT

dyork: Yep, that's the place -- a little far from home in New Edinburgh, but it's a living. Having the Cock and Bull next door comes in handy sometimes.

BTW, congratulations on taking French lessons! I did that this spring too. I was born and bred in southwestern Ontario, where I was a lot more likely to hear Dutch than French. So while I took French in school for years, I never got to use it -- until I got here, and figured I'd better brush up. Bonne chance!

Hacking: Bézier curves in Haskell

Tonight: James Brown -- get up!

4 Jul 2001

Wed, 4 Jul 2001 23:04:11 GMT

dyork, zeevon: there are an awful lot of us Ottawans here, aren't there? Seems the numbers are growing.

ottawaDave: curious to see what you do with the Ottawa Python Authors Group. I've been hacking Python for a while now, and use it lots with my current gig. I'd be curious to see what else people are doing with it.

hacking: a quick parser for a small subset of Oracle DDL SQL using a great parser generator. Good fun. Now, to think more deeply about the various issues with modelling data for RDBMS storage, and modelling it for XML storage...

20 Mar 2001

Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:51:01 GMT

Don't think about this too much before trying to go to sleep. Makes for weird dreams...

12 Dec 2000

Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:06:01 GMT

Woo! Nothing like a foot of freshly-fallen snow to make one feel Canadian! I'm sure I left my car in front of the house, but I don't see it...

Wrapping up a DocBook SGML -> HTML translation project. Definitely ready to move on to the next thing...

27 Oct 2000

Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:05:36 GMT

Skud: there's at least one Ethiopian restaurant downtown. I've never been there, but I walk past it on my way to one of the rep cinemas here.

Lucky you -- looks like you'll be getting here just in time for a charming Ottawa winter. 8^)

14 Aug 2000

Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:41:35 GMT

Saturday: Toronto Festival of Beer. Death by a thousand cups...

30 Jun 2000

Fri, 30 Jun 2000 04:35:55 GMT

Yep, ciphersabre is kinda neat. I went and did one. It was fun.