Had a bit of excitement on the way home, today. As I was walking home from the bus stop, after work, I noticed a lot of muddy water bubbling up from the street. A water pipe had broke. I must have just caught it in the early stages. Went home, my mom had already contacted… Continue reading Broken Water Pipe
New Digital Camera: Canon PowerShot D10
(photos below) My beloved Canon IXY (ELPH) digital camera has finally (mostly) died, thanks to me putting it in a bag that had falsely secure liquids. (It got beer on it and now it behaves very strange and lacks some features, such as playback.) Oops. Anyway, I don’t like having to be so careful with… Continue reading New Digital Camera: Canon PowerShot D10
Kitchenware and Shopping!
Last Friday, I had no plans and decided to do a little shopping at Pacific Centre before leaving downtown Vancouver. I wasn’t really looking for anything special, just looking to see if I could find any sales or see anything I “simply must have.” (I was bored and didn’t feel like going home quite yet.)… Continue reading Kitchenware and Shopping!
Dinner: Sautéed Salmon
Eager to use some new kitchenware I bought over the weekend (a post in itself, perhaps), I made dinner last night. Along with the salmon, I stir-fried veggies & rice and attempted a simple white sauce using a white wine reduction. All things considered, it went pretty well. The biggest problem was that the salmon… Continue reading Dinner: Sautéed Salmon
Canadian Income Tax 2009
If you have any trouble understanding how income tax works or is calculated, play around on this webpage and see if it helps you. (It probably won’t, but you might have fun not learning anything!) It lets you dynamically compare different income taxes within Canada using a pretty graph and it lets you calculate your… Continue reading Canadian Income Tax 2009
Monthly Expenses?
I try to make all my purchases on credit card. This lets me easily review all my expenses each month, or at any time using online banking. (wooh, technology). So for my last statement, I downloaded it as a spreadsheet, did some grouping, and made a chart. I had to pull in some data from… Continue reading Monthly Expenses?
Tuna Teasers
We have a potluck lunch in the office, tomorrow, so I did something I never do: bake. 😮 I know, I know. Anyway, I decided on these things called Tuna Teasers – I remember enjoying when my mom had made them. Then I looked at the recipe. My god, was it simple! And quick! It’s… Continue reading Tuna Teasers
File List Applet – now with more autotools!
I decided that before I did any more work on the applet, I would improve its installation process to make it easier for people to try it out. So, the process to get and build the source now looks like this: Download Browse source here. Download the source: bzr branch http://stevenbrown.ca/src/FileListApplet Install Install dependencies (Ubuntu… Continue reading File List Applet – now with more autotools!
Laptop’s New Life
My laptop has had its fair share of problems, mostly because it’s aging; I bought it nearly 6 years ago!! I’m actually impressed it’s aged so well! A few days ago, the display started to flicker with increasing frequency and become distorted shortly after turning it on. Here’s a video showing the problem: (Warning: contains… Continue reading Laptop’s New Life
Reading – XP and Design Patterns
I got a few books out from the library, recently, which I’ve been reading on the bus. I’m currently alternating between Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change and The Joy of Patterns: Using Patterns for Enterprise Development. I wish I had read the XP book before being project manager for my Software Engineering project at University,… Continue reading Reading – XP and Design Patterns