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Since setting up this blog, I have been experimenting with various ways to display code on this blog. I started out trying some of the WordPress plugins like SyntaxHighlighter that used the Google code javascript library, but I wasn’t very happy with the result. Looking around, it seems like the Ruby community generally just handles [...]

I’ve had my MacBook Pro now for just over a week and I have to say that I’m very impressed so far. It performs well, it’s well designed, it has great battery life and it is light and portable. I have to admit that I was a bit worried about adapting to OSX, but the [...]

Last night I attended the first NetSquared meet-up. NetSquared is a forum for people interested in the intersection between IT and social change. This local event has spun out of the Web of Change community as a more regular place to keep in touch and share ideas. The session was kicked off by Tom Williams [...]

Yesterday, I spent some time purchasing a few new domain names. I’ve been using Network Solutions for something like 10 years, and I’ve always used them to manage my domains. I had assumed, naively I guess, that the cost of domain name registration was more or less fixed. But after looking around at other providers, [...]

My friend Josie Leung recently returned from Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo where she was helping to support a rural medical clinic there. She has set up a charity on GiveMeaning.com to try to raise the funds to support the continued operation of the clinic. The charity needs a certain number of votes [...]

I’ve recently moved my long neglected blog from dotnetjunkies.com onto a shared host at hostgator.com. My old blog site had been running a pretty old and crappy version of Community Server and had started serving up ads. All the more reason to move. So I’ve started over with a recent version of WordPress which so [...]