Category Archives: Tech

Blurbs on the technology that surrounds us.

With Great Power Comes Astonishing Downtime

Yesterday afternoon my Bell DSL connection died. At first I thought it would be the routine network death, in which I’d simply have to wait 5 to 10 minutes for everything to get back in order. A whole afternoon later, the connection was still dead.

CHDK

Reading Hack-A-Day today, I noticed there was something available for Canon digital cameras which would add a whole bunch of extra features/options, such as the ability to shoot in the RAW format and ultra-high shutter speed for taking pictures of lightning and other fun things. There is an entire list of features CHDK enables, ranging [...]

Coding Has Begun

During the Fall semester, I had downloaded Adobe Flex Builder 2 (legally, for free because I am a student), in hopes of eventually developing my own web-based media player for use on Addonelam — that was 2007.
Now we’re almost nearing the halfway point of 2008, and I have finally begun coding! This is really [...]

What Happened To The Blog and Comic?!

Before everyone spams me on MSN again with “What the eff is wrong with your blog!?”, let me remind you that today is CSS Naked Day, which celebrates the work and efforts of WP theme designers, as well as web-standards.
So it looks very plain, and as some say, “FUGLY”, but in essence, it still allows [...]