My kids love red velvet cupcakes. There’s something uniquely interesting about the colour, texture and taste of these things that make them deeply desirable. They also need to have a cream cheese frosting to provide the flavour contrast or it doesn’t work. The cupcakes are essentially a chocolate cupcake but coloured red. For my daughter’s 12th [...]
Much has been posted online recently about the proposed US Government bill to stop online piracy commonly referred to as SOPA. This is one of the best videos summarizing the bill — http://vimeo.com/31100268 As the video says SOPA gives the entertainment industry and the US Government the power to block specific web sites, sue web [...]
I run on a treadmill most of the time as I find the training environment more consistent that running outside in a changing environment. However, I know many runners consider the treadmill to be boring and has earned the name of ‘dreadmill’. For some people they need to feel the wind rushing past them, they [...]
Continue Reading →I recently updated my Boxee Box and it seems to have broken it. I always take the updates and I’m always scared they’re going to break the damn thing but it seems you have no choice. I’d also had the box lock up a few times while browsing the list of movies but I wasn’t [...]
Continue Reading →Cloud Computing is the boardroom buzzword of the year for 2011. With promises of flexibility, scalability, ease of management and cost reduction it’s an attractive proposition for any company looking to solve complex inter-related IT issues. If your technology is out-dated and you can’t afford to replace it; use the Cloud as there are no, [...]
Continue Reading →Imagine a city where the roads are filled with the same car. This city only allows one manufacturer and one model of car to be driven on its roads but they will allow you to choose your own paint colour, air freshener and interior trim. Would you want to live here? The city council say [...]
Continue Reading →We live on a mountain, a huge granite-filled monster of a mountain that seems to have filled our front and rear yards with its spawn. During some of our earthworks we’ve developed a few techniques for removing the rocks and boulders that we’ve encountered that we’d like to share with you Internet folks. Firstly, granite [...]
Continue Reading →We purchased our house in late 2006. We initially viewed the property in October and during the buying process it suffered a small leak in the basement. The sellers brought in a specialist contractor, shelled out $25K to have half of the perimeter draintile changed and we continued to buy the house. We assumed the [...]
Continue Reading →We acquired a dog in August 2008, much to the surprise of my wife who maintains she was shanghaied into accepting the deal. I’d wanted a dog for around 10 years but my contracting lifestyle didn’t suit it — long days, constantly moving. It wouldn’t be fair. It was only after we moved to Vancouver [...]
Continue Reading →Kohana is one of the fastest PHP MVC frameworks around, forking from CodeIgniter a few years ago but fully optimized for PHP v5. Although it has a solid pedigree and is used by an ever-growing number of top sites, it suffers from a lack of documentation and a comparatively small community of developers. Packt’s latest book, Kohana [...]
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