Although the whole "end of one year beginning of another" is basically a contrivance of convenience, let's go with it and agree now is as good a time as any to look back on the last 365 days.
Things I learned this year:
You can put stuff besides nuts in peanut butter:
Although I'm not sure how good Peanut Butter with Sun-dried Tomato is, I do know how good Peanut Butter with Raspberry White Chocolate is! (yum)
You can still buy Absinthe, and only alcoholics see green fairies :
I found a bottle of Absente in the LCBO recently as a housewarming gift (it's not kewl to show up empty handed they tell me), and it got me wondering if you could get the real thing anywhere. Apparently you pretty much can. It's not exactly the same, but is probably very close.. and given the number of people alive who've had the real (pre-1920) stuff - there aren't a lot to argue.
Continue reading... | Posted 12:06 AM to Personal - (2) Comments
Okay so it's not really R.I.P. as SETI@HOME is being rolled in to a newer more comprehensive service called BOINC, but very soon the SETI@HOME site will probably disappear in to web archive obscurity.
Why do I care about S@H if I haven't had the software installed in any of the last 4 computers I've owned (man, I need less computers)? It's mostly nostalgia I guess. I remember when S@H was "the new thing", the way Java, and XML, and now RSS and W2.0 are "the new thing", but those other things which in my mind really haven't changed much, merely extended what was already there. S@H was a great new idea for the good of the world: use everyone's spare computing cycles to achieve herculean tasks that would boggle Deep Blue. Did you even know that about 90% of the time 99% of your computers CPU power is idle?
Continue reading... | Posted 11:14 AM to Personal
Just in case the title doesn't say it all Get Firefox!
GO..
From my webstats I know that most people who come to bostich.com still use Internet Explorer (Boo!) If you have not discovered the joy that is Firefox then I urge you to make the switch. I'm not going to go in depth about the features because Mozilla already has pages that do that. If you don't trust me then trust other people. So go, look download and start playing around with it. Don't forget to also go checkout some of the amazing Firefox Extensions. People who love the Internet love Firefox. Enjoy.
