tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150971812024-03-23T14:47:48.810-03:00Hey, you know what I really hate?I know you miss my rantings, so here they are Web 2.0 style baby.grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1145906089584550172006-04-24T16:11:00.000-03:002006-04-24T16:14:49.600-03:00Moved my baking to a NEW BLOGYes, Ritchie has turned me into a one blog per idea kind of person.<br /><br />Or at least, that's what I'm going to try.<br /><br />So, my baking (and perhaps other cooking) will now be on a seperate blog:<br /><br /><a href="http://bakinginbinary.blogspot.com">http://bakinginbinary.blogspot.com</a>.<br /><br />This weekend we <a href="http://bakinginbinary.blogspot.com/2006/04/egg-tart-experiment-1.html">attempted to create Egg Tarts</a>, trying to bring a bit of Vancouver to Halifax.grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1143342193901321932006-03-25T23:01:00.000-04:002006-03-25T23:03:20.956-04:00No bagels this week, sorryI'm heading to Vancouver from the 27th to the 3rd!<br /><br />Anyone want to hang out, email me... <br /><br />Perhaps I'll make those bagels anyways!<br /><br />-greggrishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1142982025174108372006-03-21T18:49:00.000-04:002006-03-21T19:14:03.606-04:00Baking In Binary: Poppyseed ChallahWelcome to my new semi-regular column-- Baking In Binary, because I usually do all this baking as a good way to take a break from coding. And since my coding is done about 10 feet from the kitchen, I can really get into some good stuff.<br />Like a challah! Here's today's, fresh out of the oven:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/1600/PICT0045.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/320/PICT0045.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />One nicely done Challah!<br /></div><br /><br /><div><br /><div style="float: left;"><br />After some rising it started like this:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/1600/PICT0037.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/320/PICT0037.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="float: right;"><br />Then turned into this after some squishing:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/1600/PICT0039.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/320/PICT0039.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div><br /><div style="float: left;"><br />The after some rolling it turned into this:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/1600/PICT0040.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/320/PICT0040.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><br /><div style="float: right;"><br />And just before the oven it looked like this:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/1600/PICT0043.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/320/PICT0043.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="clear: both;"><br />Voila. It's tasty. And if you want the recipe, you're going to have to *gasp* contact me directly to get it. :) Although I can't guarantee any results.<br /></div>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1142912124265810392006-03-20T23:32:00.000-04:002006-03-20T23:35:24.276-04:00Odds, ends, and promisesYeah, I really hate people who don't update their blogs too.<br /><br />Ok, as you may have seen on the other blog page, I got into grad school. Woot. Dalhousie here I come.<br /><br />And I'm baking a lot, so my next entry (tomorrow) will highlight whatever I decide to make. Probably involving poppy seeds. So tasy, so black, so heroin producing--- I mean, Ukranian.<br /><br />I would blog about my pita breads, but I ate them. Twice. I promise to blog about batch #3.<br /><br />-greggrishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1132936327557629232005-11-25T12:30:00.000-04:002005-11-25T12:32:07.570-04:00Sightseeing with Google MapsYes it's a blogtastic day today... just found this link and I'd like to share:<br /><br /><a href="http://perljam.net/google-satellite-maps/">Sightseeing with Google Satellite Maps</a><br /><br />A web site of interesting links to interesting places on Google Maps.grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1132927327943916482005-11-25T09:59:00.000-04:002005-11-25T10:02:07.943-04:00Today's funny linksThis has been making it's way around the 'net:<br /><br /><a href="http://spadassin.blogspot.com/2005/11/webmasters-who-didnt-think-when-they.html">Webmasters who didn't think when getting their domain names.</a><br /><br />A page about a dude who'll eat anything, and blog about it:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php">Steve Don't Eat It!</a><br /><br /><br />These links were courtesy of my new favourite news machine: <a href="http://reddit.com/">reddit.com</a>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1132926847068288272005-11-25T09:52:00.000-04:002005-11-25T09:59:41.603-04:00Why I Love LispYou can make your own language!<br /><br /><a href="http://i-need-closures.blogspot.com/2005/11/or.html">http://i-need-closures.blogspot.com/2005/11/or.html</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://spadassin.blogspot.com/2005/11/webmasters-who-didnt-think-when-they.html"><br /></a>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1131454522808828542005-11-08T08:54:00.000-04:002005-11-08T08:55:22.830-04:00Risk on Google MapsNeed I say more?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ashotoforangejuice.com/gmrisk.html">http://www.ashotoforangejuice.com/gmrisk.html</a>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1131113037927617652005-11-04T10:02:00.000-04:002005-11-04T10:03:57.926-04:00Last day!Today is my last day at Xwave!<br /><br />I'm sad and excited at the same time... I'm now going to be working for Intrawest again, albeit from 6000km away.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to some real challenges and getting away from trivial bug fixing!grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1131049418175252572005-11-03T16:22:00.000-04:002005-11-03T16:23:38.196-04:00Money For MusicToday I donated $30 a month to <a href="http://www.radioparadise.com">Radio Paradise</a>.<br /><br />After over a year of awesome listen, I figure it's about time.grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1130938055997497872005-11-02T09:25:00.000-04:002005-11-02T09:27:36.010-04:00I hate booleansEspecially those pesky "true, false, maybe" kind. :)<br /><br />Here's a really interesting article about why booleans can be evil, and how checkboxes in UIs are especially so. Definately makes me want to replace any checkbox I see with a radio button. :)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000430.html">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000430.html</a><br /><br />PS. Sorry about the blogstorm today!grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1130936429931103602005-11-02T08:59:00.000-04:002005-11-02T09:00:29.950-04:00Donkeyfaces??Well, a synonym maybe... :)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.secretgeek.net/passfaces.asp">http://www.secretgeek.net/passfaces.asp</a>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1130932731776047182005-11-02T07:50:00.000-04:002005-11-02T07:58:51.786-04:00Portals and BrowsersOk, so I'm just reading Slashdot comments about the new Windows Live launch. What's Windows Live? Apparently it's supposed to be an online version of Office and whatnot. If you go to the site, you're presented with what is, essentially, a portal. It's still in beta, but the idea I think is to make it your one stop web homepage.<br /><br />Now this all seems familiar somehow, and Slashdot commentators where talking about the bygone days of Excite and all the other web portals-- how they had their weather, stocks, newsfeeds, etc all configured on it and made it their homepage. <br /><br />When I look at my browser right now, I see weather thanks to <a href="http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/">ForecastFox</a>, news feeds courtesy of <a href="http://sage.mozdev.org/">Sage</a>, and even web email notifications with the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1264">Yahoo Mail Notifier</a>. So I guess I should call up some VCs and IPO my browser configuration? I think Microsoft may have once again misjudged where things are headed. We don't need web pages to aggregate our information if the tools are already in our hands.<br /><br />PS. And I didn't even get started about Office! Who is going to want to pay a subscription to use Word? Even Google has balked at that and is propping up OpenOffice instead.grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1130242548677072402005-10-25T09:14:00.000-03:002005-10-25T09:15:48.686-03:00Visual Studio Rots the MindOk, this one's for the boys at 900 W Hastings:<br /><br /><a href="http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html">http://charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html</a><br /><br />Charles Petzold in one of his more enlightened moments...grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1129553757201854402005-10-17T09:54:00.000-03:002005-10-17T09:55:57.210-03:00Teach your kids what real life is like!<a href="http://www.vestaldesign.com/projects/modelrr/">Railroad Slums</a><br /><br /><a href="http://store.playmobilusa.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/PM_DisplayProductInformation-Start;sid=CrtrMKaybrhrHuWBCJNnFmiATQTiOJ3inJI=?ProductSKU=3172&CategoryName=Citylife-Flughafen_us&PLS=">Playmobile Security Checkpoint</a><br /><br />Man, what has this world come to. These are almost as scary as the junior executive kit.grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1128688100485719812005-10-07T09:24:00.000-03:002005-10-07T09:28:20.490-03:00Lisp RampageFrom the <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LispUsersAreArrogant">c2 Wiki on Why Lisp Users are Arrogant:</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> Lisp is like </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheRedPill">TheRedPill</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> -- after you take it, you think that maybe you should start killing other programmers who don't know any better and seem opposed to taking </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheRedPill">TheRedPill</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> anyway. This wears off eventually, and you focus on building your own little submarines that fly. Occasionally popping into the net and fighting mythological creatures like trolls, or offering strangers odd red candies. <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span>Heh. Time to don the trenchcoat and start firing. :) I've been reading Practical Common Lisp and <span style="font-style: italic;">damn</span> I forgot how cool Lisp is. <span style="font-style: italic;">so... damn... cool...<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span></span>Lock and load!<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br /></span>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1128535400582652512005-10-05T14:57:00.000-03:002005-10-05T15:03:32.750-03:00Did you know?SQL Server 2005 has built in support for running C#. Did you know that <a href="http://www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL</a> has had the ability to run almost any language for quite some time? Or that there's even <a href="http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/pl-ruby">support for Ruby</a>!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice/">Ricky Gervais</a> is writing and starring in an upcoming Simpsons <a href="http://www.rickygervais.com/simpsons.php">episode</a>?<br /><br />Someone thinks <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com">Paul Graham</a> is a <a href="http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm">blowhard</a>?<br /><br />Eric S Raymond has written about <a href="http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/sextips/bedplay.html">sex tips for geeks</a>?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*shudder*<br /><br /><br /></span>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1128452943104032592005-10-04T16:03:00.000-03:002005-10-04T16:09:03.113-03:00Web + Non-Web AppsOkay, sometimes I think he's a tool and other times I think he's brilliant. Actually, I think as long as he isn't being a fanboy about the company he works for then I can stomach it.<br /><br />I think he has a really valid point about <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/10/04.html#a11363">where web apps are good and when they aren't</a>. Of course, it depends on what kind of user you are. I use a word processor (read: fully fledged formatting tool) about 3 times a year (usually to pound out some sort of cover letter), so perhaps a web app version would suit me just fine. If I were a writer, however, I think I'd like one that has a slightly better and responsive UI.<br /><br />For those building, I dunno, let's say call centre apps. Used all day? Or only occasionally? Hrm?<br /><br />:)grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1128092053805137992005-09-30T11:53:00.000-03:002005-09-30T11:54:13.870-03:00Flagpole sitta'Harvey Danger has released their new album for free on the net!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.harveydanger.com/downloads/">http://www.harveydanger.com/downloads/</a>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1127867529684313402005-09-27T21:29:00.000-03:002005-09-27T21:32:09.690-03:00When you're this cool, they call you DoctorDrScheme that is... Why?<br /> - it's an IDE<br /> - it's a language<br /> - you can use it to write a compiler (AspectC for example!)<br /> - and it even has it's own <a href="http://download.plt-scheme.org/doc/299.400/html/web-server/">web server</a><br /><br />So maybe Paul Graham doesn't love Scheme as much as Common Lisp, but I do. :)<br /><a href="http://www.drscheme.org/">http://www.drscheme.org/</a>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1127522590051187392005-09-23T21:42:00.000-03:002005-09-23T21:43:10.053-03:00Mr. Heath in Halifax????At least, it really LOOKS like Eric...<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/1024/IMGP3115.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/400/IMGP3115.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a> grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1127521897574771412005-09-23T21:26:00.000-03:002005-09-23T21:31:37.580-03:00My bike routeWell, here it is: my bike route. The yellow one is my route to work and the just white dotted one is my route back. It's designed to keep me on the side streets on the uphills and on the more direct busier streets on the downhills (record so far, 66 km/h on Dutch Village Road).<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/640/bikeroute.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1561/1387/320/bikeroute.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a> grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1127501141523922082005-09-23T15:45:00.000-03:002005-09-23T22:32:27.423-03:00Ah... americans...<a href="http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html">http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5c.html</a>grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1127309036756555912005-09-21T10:13:00.000-03:002005-09-21T10:23:56.763-03:00A new name!Okay, so at Tudor's suggestion I have renamed my blog... The "The adjective plural-noun" formula apparently no good.<br /><br />So instead how about my most frequently uttered phrase at work? <br /><br />Today what I really hate is VISUAL SOURCE SAFE. ARGH! What a huge pile of steaming poo. And what's worse, the people who use it are rarely prepared to change to something else until way way too late (ie. the database corrupts, or as is the case at work right now-- it's effing useless over a WAN). <br />Of course, by that time their processes are totally entrenched in the SourceSafe model and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who understands the concept of branching or merging. And OMG what's this about "concurrent" working models?<br /><br />Anyways, the main problem we're seeing is a combination of stupidities where we _need_ to use Visual Studio to pull down the project out of SourceSafe since it has web projects within it that it needs to create. And part way through it just freaks out and stops downloading from the repository. And apparently there is no way to fix this, and the only way we can get the code is to go locally to Fredericton and get it there. VSS is NOT designed to work over a WAN, as it basically treats the repository as a local filesystem (it just happens to be on a network share, I guess it assumes) and opens files left, right and center. Pretty inefficient. <br /><br />However, I _am_ able to get all the code when I just use the standalone client. But I can't open up the solution because it contains web projects, and for some reason it _has_ to go to sourcesafe to get those. ARGH! This is why people should NOT program via Wizards.<br /><br />So, long story short, I am investigating two options. One is a client/server app called SourceOffSite that essentially is a proxy for VSS. The server runs on the LAN, and is a VSS client. The client runs on your machine (integrates with VisualStudio) and basically is a proper client/server protocol that is clean and mean. The messy shit happens over on the server side which should be local to the VSS repository.<br /><br />The other option is to change the Web projects into DLL projects so that they can be opened without any freaky Visual Studio integration to the IIS web server. It means you have an extra step of set up initially (import the Web applications into the IIS configuration metabase) but damn, at least you can use a standalone client!<br /><br />So, I promise I won't talk always about what I hate. But it'll most likely come up frequently. :)<br /><br />Hope y'all are doing well out there on other coast. I miss all you guys!grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15097181.post-1125836146835772532005-09-04T09:12:00.000-03:002005-09-04T09:15:46.840-03:00Quick UpdateWe're in Halifax, mostly moved in, and just got the internet a couple of days ago. For those of you desperately wanting access to certain web galleries--- smolyn.org is back in action.<br /><br />I managed to get a job already, in fact enroute. Come the 6th I'll be working at xwave.ca.<br /><br /> More to follow on the main blog once we get things organized!grishahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14966904454997642349noreply@blogger.com0