22 Mar 07

Bringing down [sub]PIXEL

According to my Administration Panel I set-up [sub]PIXEL.ca in November of 2002. I can now say that 4.5 years later it's time to take it down. I was going to wait until I had made a book out of the images/copy/comments, but as I went through that process I realized I just wasn't that interested anymore. A lot of the images are just bad (to be honest) , out of focus or otherwise examples of an immaturity I'd rather leave behind.

I still have the site backed-up, so nothing is really lost. It was however, time to stop paying to keep the site up. Both financially and artistically it didn't make sense to keep it up any longer, the traffic just didn't justify it. I'm much happier with the current bostich.com homepage being the repository of my work. True I lose the ability to comment on my photography the way I could on [sub]PIXEL a slideshow is not a photoblog.

So, R.I.P. [sub]PIXEL.ca

Continue reading... | Posted 10:51 PM to Personal, Web

04 Sep 06

That's right... I'm taking a Vacation

No, not from blogging ;) I already do more than enough of that. This year I'll be taking my first long vacation since I went to Costa Rica for a month way back in 2002. More details after the Film Festival.

Posted 08:57 PM to Personal, Vacation

31 Dec 05

Goodbye 2005

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

19 Dec 05

R.I.P. SETI@HOME

SETI@HOME

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

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