The Blog of Harald

By Category:

Books (15)

• Banned Books Week
• book tracking
• Books
• Changes at BAKKA
• Harry Potter
• Kid’s Books I Really Like
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
• More book banning
• more movies
• Recommended Reading
• sf book meme
• SF Recommended Authors
• Small Book Stores…
• Time
• Wither Science Fiction?

Current Events (83)

• 10 Commandments sound and fury
• 13 things that do not make sense – Features
• 5 years
• 7 year old shoots 6 year old
• Almanacs are subversive
• American Politics again
• antibiotics
• Blackout Satellite Images
• Blackout.IT
• BSE causes classical CJD also?
• Canada vs United States?
• Canadian Politics
• Cape Breton joins space race
• car seats vs. seatbelts
• Chinese Manned Spaceflight?
• climate change
• Cod Stocks Depleted
• Cote d’Ivoire
• Courage
• culture of fear

Favourites (3)

• more on mediocrity
• Playing with Time
• The Forehead Ticket Trick

Gaming (13)

• A good weekend
• dungeons and dragons is 30!
• Elves and Pirates
• More Stuff That Every Gamer Needs
• My D&D statistics
• new campaign
• puzzle
• Snood
• The Nighttime Animals Save the World
• Title Links Plugin
• White Wolf sues Underworld
• White Wolf vs. Sony: more details
• WISH 44: Picking Games

General (11)

• Christmas Ornaments
• comments
• DNS issues?
• famous kiters!
• Natural Choice USA
• oops
• Sad But True
• spam source
• Sugar controversy in the news
• They’re Baaaack…
• Time

Health (18)

• ‘Abstaining’ Teens Still Get STDs
• Caffeine Aphasia?
• car seats vs. seatbelts
• DEET and sunscreen together?
• Good News
• Health News
• It’s time…
• license plate
• more on car seats
• more on mediocrity
• Most Americans are not meeting their dietary needs for calcium
• Our Precious Bodily Fluids
• Soy Bad, Soy Good
• Speaking of Alternative Medicine
• Stay away from the pizza…
• Suburban Obesity
• Vigorous exercise required
• Yes, Fat Kills…

Humour (62)

• 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.
• all men cringe
• Beastly
• biker vs. squirrel
• Blackout Cause
• caffeinated Viagra beer
• Caffeine
• combover
• Cool Shirts
• Damien Katz: Who moved my Hasselhoff?
• death by bouncy ball?
• Dummies
• Food Quotes
• Foolproof
• Fragile
• giggle
• going up? part 2
• hah!
• herding undergrads
• how to wave your arms around a lot

Links (177)

• 13 things that do not make sense – Features
• 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.
• A lightbulb moment
• addiction
• all men cringe
• an interesting park
• Another related comment
• Anything That Can Go Wrong…
• Apple Introduces AirPort Express
• biker vs. squirrel
• bittorrent is cool
• Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator
• Boing Boing: S’mores Nativity kit
• Bottle Cap Tripod
• braindead and games
• Business Card Cubes
• caffeinated Viagra beer
• Caffeine
• Can you see a difference?
• Cape Breton joins space race

Miscellaneous (21)

• another qotd
• authority
• Balance
• Blogging Politics
• change
• Changes at BAKKA
• Cravings “Waist Watchers” mini cheesecakes
• Digital Retouching Examples
• EBEs
• French Press Coffee?
• Happy Birthday!
• Happy Equinox, and eggs
• MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site
• Page 23 Meme
• quotes
• Sweeping The Alley
• The Bike Doctor
• The Lion in March
• trends
• Why is Outlook so popular?

Movies (3)

• 102 must-see movies?
• more movies
• sf film canon

Odd (25)

• amazon.ca shipping
• Beer: Truly a Blessed Beverage!
• Billing System Confusion
• climate change
• Coincidence?
• Documentation is never accurate…
• Ethical Philosophy in 30 seconds or less
• Female Nudity
• Hair
• Hypnotic
• I’m not the only one playing with technology
• Macs are Tough, Too!
• Matchmaker
• Matrimony Mod
• More Stuff That Every Gamer Needs
• Mr. McGroovy’s
• pessimist optimist realist
• Rubber Ducky, You’re the One
• Snow?
• Spell Checkers don’t?

Personal (231)

• -23°C
• ‘e’s back!
• 102 must-see movies?
• 4 weeks
• a comparison
• a fling
• A good weekend
• A New Car!
• A Shopping Trip
• A Technology Jump
• A Weight Milestone
• aaaaaaaaargh!
• Active Directory
• addiction
• Again?
• Away
• Back
• back again
• back!
• bad drivers

Politics (11)

• 5 years
• Anti-DRM Lobby Group
• Cheese or Peanut Butter?
• Civic Duty
• election
• Equal Access
• In Law We Trust
• Political Compass
• qotd
• thing one from Wil
• We’re All Above Average

Programming (18)

• another get_weather_ca update
• automation
• code snippets
• construction metaphors
• Current Product Engineering
• Dances with Systems
• get_weather_ca update
• get_weather_ca update
• Good vs. Evil
• interrupts
• J2EE makes sense!
• quote
• The Start Button
• The Tyranny of Email
• Title Links Plugin
• Will ANYTHING new ever work?
• WordPress and HTTP Conditional GET
• wordpress filter

Random Thoughts (20)

• Big Fat Pipes Don’t Make Money
• Carrots, Eyesight, and Radar
• climate change
• Coventry Cathedral
• Daylight Saving Time
• Driver re-testing
• Feast to Famine
• Hitting the stress wall
• Long Distance Charges
• Low brow TV
• More on Driver retesting
• Oops!
• Private Schools
• Proving Once Again That It’s All Porn and Money
• Sleep, After Kids
• The Accidental Techie
• The Long Tail: Apple vs The World?
• Weblogs; usenet done over?
• What’s Up With Work?
• Wither Science Fiction?

Rants (35)

• 7 year old shoots 6 year old
• American Politics again
• antibiotics
• Argh; MSIE and bandwidth
• bad drivers
• Big and Blue in the USA
• Cheap Gas
• Disposable Economy
• Do we need astronauts?
• Electricity deregulation needs to respect physics
• Fox and SF
• Friendly Fire
• Hostile Movie Theaters
• How to Grow a Bully
• Is Email Broken?
• Jerks shouldn’t drive
• Keyboard layout frustration
• Labour Day Irony?
• Lazy
• More Manned Spaceflight

Science and Technology (72)

• _now_ they tell me…
• Active Directory
• Apple Introduces AirPort Express
• automation
• Automotive Blackboxes
• Bluetooth DOA?
• Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator
• car seats vs. seatbelts
• Carrots, Eyesight, and Radar
• CD-R reliability questioned
• Chinese Manned Spaceflight?
• Comfort Foods Reduce Stress
• drool
• earth observatory – United States Population Density
• Eat Less. Exercise More.
• Failure is Always an Option
• Filter your flourescent lights
• FreeBSD has hibernate support
• going up?
• High Availability is not Cheap

Site News (65)

• A lightbulb moment
• A Thank You
• Another trackback test
• Argh; MSIE and bandwidth
• Backups
• Bandwidth
• bandwitdh theft
• blog.org
• code snippets
• Comment SPAM
• comment spam
• Comment SPAM again
• Comments
• comments
• Comments RSS feed
• Comments SPAM interlock
• Content Management Systems
• Crash!
• downtime
• dumb crawlers

TV (8)

• bittorrent is cool
• Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator
• Encounter at Farpoint
• Made in Eureka
• PVR-250 and MythTV
• SciFi News
• six degrees of St. Elsewhere
• Space, Stargate, MythTV

WISH (5)

• WISH 44: Picking Games
• WISH 47: Lessons Learned
• WISH 54: Background Hooks
• WISH 59: Games for Non-Gamers
• WISH 64: Deities and Demigods

By Month:

December 2007 (4)

• presents
• qotd
• giggle
• I don’t like the world I live in…

October 2007 (1)

• automation

September 2007 (1)

• server update

August 2007 (2)

• hosting
• back!

July 2007 (4)

• Outsourcing the Picket Line – washingtonpost.com
• potter economics
• lessons of history
• daf(t)

June 2007 (1)

• shakedown cruise

May 2007 (1)

• prep work

April 2007 (4)

• culture of fear
• towing and fuses
• luxury
• champions

March 2007 (2)

• hockey update
• hockey playoffs

February 2007 (5)

• Pachelbels Canon
• house of the future
• leasing
• tow vehicle – done!
• indexed

January 2007 (8)

• guessing better than planning
• young children understand irony
• nuke your sponges
• pinery trip
• trailer research
• top 10 reasons to procrastinate
• back again
• week

December 2006 (8)

• real-world passwords
• map of the internet
• caffeinated Viagra beer
• the new sneakernet
• Smashing The Clock
• cruise photos
• thing 2 from wil
• thing one from Wil

November 2006 (5)

• geeks on a ship
• thermostat
• stream of conciousness
• sf book meme
• Mr. McGroovy’s

October 2006 (9)

• Vote with your Throat
• wasps redux
• earth observatory – United States Population Density
• geotagging
• aaaaaaaaargh!
• wasps
• sushi puns
• ouch
• peril

September 2006 (6)

• Rands In Repose: Trickle Theory
• addiction
• construction metaphors
• 5 years
• photo op
• kick me when I’m down

August 2006 (9)

• Title Links Plugin
• kick me!
• Made in Eureka
• Cape Breton joins space race
• Wait, Aren’t You Scared?
• Schneier on Security- Last Week’s Terrorism Arrests
• the $2-million comma
• freefall
• heat

July 2006 (7)

• all men cringe
• pointer kite?
• photo tools
• puzzle
• tektonic review so far
• YouTube
• never has arrived

June 2006 (5)

• wordpress filter
• summer
• quote of the day
• south toronto?
• 4 weeks

May 2006 (3)

• census II
• weekend
• stand up and be counted

April 2006 (5)

• 102 must-see movies?
• more movies
• Incredible Machines
• swords don’t run out of bullets
• dst

March 2006 (7)

• cubicle farm
• oooh, pretty!
• going up? part 2
• modern info warfare
• bandwitdh theft
• new campaign
• uh-oh…

February 2006 (7)

• passwords
• smtp block
• wayne
• hah!
• trends
• addiction
• making the rounds

January 2006 (11)

• going up?
• power and virtualisation
• it’s good to be nine
• that was strange…
• an interesting park
• how to order wine
• My outsourced life
• New digital camera? Know how, where you can use it
• ‘e’s back!
• invasion!
• Does anybody really know what time it is?

December 2005 (4)

• Christmas Morning
• more mediocrity
• cold
• sick days

November 2005 (5)

• sf film canon
• rabbits
• phew!
• comedy film canon
• biker vs. squirrel

October 2005 (14)

• Damien Katz: Who moved my Hasselhoff?
• good weekend
• car update
• standing out from the herd
• combover
• EBEs
• change
• life imitates art
• they killed jack-fm?
• how to wave your arms around a lot
• 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.
• How to Sell a Bulldozer
• WordPress 1.5
• Timeline for Unfolding Crisis of Mankind

September 2005 (12)

• Fall
• luncheon meat
• SciFi News
• PowerSquid Outlet Multiplier
• A lightbulb moment
• herding undergrads
• Writing
• Disposable Economy
• Tom Peters on Logistics
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Politics
• Flood Damage
• September Blues

August 2005 (4)

• girl phones?
• Engadget 1985
• Heavy Weather
• Oops

July 2005 (13)

• more on mediocrity
• car seats vs. seatbelts
• more on car seats
• J2EE makes sense!
• out of context
• down down down
• feh
• it’s hurricane season
• climate change
• Slamming comes to Canada
• melting ice cream
• Back
• Stay away from the pizza…

June 2005 (6)

• book tracking
• bad drivers
• Wonderland
• Global Warming: This Time It’s Personal
• Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks
• surveyed!

May 2005 (6)

• Myth TV
• nature indoors
• famous kiters!
• Update
• license plate
• weekend update

April 2005 (11)

• car finalé
• car update
• carless!
• Rocket Robin Hood
• google
• The Twelve Man / Thirteen Man Problem
• Fox and SF
• Again?
• Toronto Star
• Daylight Saving Time
• more snow

March 2005 (12)

• the season
• they’re insane
• Tradition
• 13 things that do not make sense – Features
• quote
• Dummies
• The Long Tail: Apple vs The World?
• The African Cliff
• braindead and games
• They’re Still Here….
• koko sued?
• snow

February 2005 (14)

• GeoURL
• it’s official…
• technical gender
• books for books sake
• antibiotics
• quotes
• downtime
• They’re Baaaack…
• spam
• Cool Shirts
• The architect and the wiki
• leahhttpd
• too much crap
• liberty

January 2005 (12)

• before and after
• scalable enterprise marketing solution
• another qotd
• authority
• -23°C
• They’re popular…
• test post
• a fling
• comments
• Space, Stargate, MythTV
• start
• The Forehead Ticket Trick

December 2004 (16)

• stop
• panvore
• sigh
• Why does the shower curtain blow up and in instead of down and out?
• Maybe we’ll win after all…
• Can you see a difference?
• It’s time…
• Jerks shouldn’t drive
• MT Plus Comment Spam Equals Dead Site
• Boing Boing: S’mores Nativity kit
• Why Nerds are Unpopular
• gumstix
• supermarket checkout
• Place The State
• First Blizzard
• Comment SPAM again

November 2004 (8)

• mythtv update
• Ubuntu Linux
• Cote d’Ivoire
• I wish
• Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator
• Spinning rims? WTF?
• election
• PVR-250 and MythTV

October 2004 (8)

• bittorrent is cool
• PVRs
• interrupts
• dungeons and dragons is 30!
• six degrees of St. Elsewhere
• layout problems
• neep! neep!
• _now_ they tell me…

September 2004 (15)

• code snippets
• WordPress and HTTP Conditional GET
• traffic
• dumb crawlers
• luddites beware?
• reading
• catching up?
• outsourcing quote
• Ivan
• Homework
• it’s the most wonderful time of the year
• everyone knows it’s windy
• a comparison
• false security?
• wind, and wind, and wind…

August 2004 (21)

• Re: oops
• Internet Explorer image caching revisited
• Defense in Depth
• RSS overload
• Argh; MSIE and bandwidth
• looming energy crisis?
• Active Directory
• Kids Plus Rocks Equals 120,000 Angry Bees
• oops
• SPAM
• watching the weather
• passwords and PKI
• passwords in the news
• Fragile
• The fridge arrived!
• spam source
• greylist results revisited
• Teeth
• Refrigerators
• Mom brought Google to its knees

July 2004 (23)

• Comments
• Dead Fridge
• Weather Forecasting
• ‘Abstaining’ Teens Still Get STDs
• Time
• Small Book Stores…
• Soy Bad, Soy Good
• Caffeine Aphasia?
• Bottle Cap Tripod
• Food Quotes
• Good News
• Home Depot
• greylist results
• Hypnotic
• Sad But True
• Messy Desk
• Still More
• greylist
• GPS Drawing
• Plumbing Part Three

June 2004 (22)

• Hostile Movie Theaters
• death by bouncy ball?
• Civic Duty
• Oops!
• Two Things
• Camping Stuff
• When Good Discs Go Bad
• pessimist optimist realist
• Wrap Hell: The World’s Craziest Gift Wrap!
• Away
• More Stuff That Every Gamer Needs
• The Nighttime Animals Save the World
• Apple Introduces AirPort Express
• First WP Problem
• Meta Efficient
• Simple Page Editors
• More Comment Spam
• comment spam
• Canadian Politics
• Most Americans are not meeting their dietary needs for calcium

May 2004 (20)

• Chiming in on the MT 3.0 controversy
• How do I use Movable Type?
• Will ANYTHING new ever work?
• Traffic Analysis
• slashdotted!
• Caffeine
• The 80s Survey
• More Hardware Questing
• Inflation
• New Ontario Health Tax
• External enclosure for DVD-RW
• Another related comment
• I changed my mind
• Speaking of Alternative Medicine
• Exceptions
• Yes, Fat Kills…
• On Digicams
• Plain English Introduction to a Wiki
• Birthday
• Big Companies

April 2004 (13)

• Diversity vs. Inequality
• News
• Movies update
• More Quotables
• Page 23 Meme
• Long Distance Charges
• USDA denies beef testing request
• We didn’t start the fire
• Movable Type security problem with Draft entries
• More on Driver retesting
• Movies to See
• Driver re-testing
• Noise

March 2004 (15)

• Safe for Work!
• Quickies
• Spam Load
• Fish and Mercury Outrage?
• Balance
• The Lion in March
• Bandwidth
• Paranoia Sucks
• Cheap Gas
• Sick Weekend
• World Subways
• Who Really Matters?
• Nice Weather
• Skiing vs. Hockey
• Huh?

February 2004 (9)

• Maps
• Content Management Systems
• Where Did February Go?
• Coincidence?
• Willow Quotes
• yawn
• Chromatron
• Recommended Reading
• Microwaves and Efficiency

January 2004 (26)

• Sugar controversy in the news
• Matrimony Mod
• Live-CDs are proliferating…
• waterless urinals
• BSE causes classical CJD also?
• Eat Less. Exercise More.
• Disk Space Utilities
• Sprit ‘Anomaly’
• Mars Scorecard
• Cold
• Ugly Commute
• Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder
• The Commute: an update
• No soap bubbles required
• Too much time fixing computers…
• The ISS
• Documentation is never accurate…
• Space Station Leaks
• Open Source vs. the executives
• Keep Microwaves Away

December 2003 (27)

• Good vs. Evil
• Business Card Cubes
• Wind Power and Birds
• Almanacs are subversive
• Our Precious Bodily Fluids
• Mad Cow in the news
• Is The Kyoto Protocol Melting?
• Global Dimming
• Paper Folding
• Christmas Ornaments
• Before and After
• DynDNS.org
• low carb paper?
• High Tech Vacations
• Speaking of photogpraphy…
• Photoblogs
• Anything That Can Go Wrong…
• Geek Alert
• Big and Blue in the USA
• Current Product Engineering

November 2003 (35)

• Well-Designed Weblogs
• Silence is …
• Debugging the VPN
• To Do This Weekend
• Minor redesign
• Sick Kid Benefits
• Internet Down? Then you can’t read this
• Trust the Computer?
• Step 3: Profit!
• Comments RSS feed
• Books
• Wal-mart in the news
• English Vocabulary
• Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
• Beastly
• Two new weight loss studies
• The Physics Diet
• weblog advantages
• Private Schools
• Windy

October 2003 (33)

• It’s begining to feel a lot like…
• Crash!
• Ouch
• Time Lapse
• The Complete Far Side
• mt-publish-on
• Automotive Blackboxes
• Methane Bubbles Sink Ships
• Is ISS really unsafe?
• Geek Jackets
• Cod Stocks Depleted
• Foolproof
• Sleep, After Kids
• Polaroid Photography
• UTF-8
• Oops!
• Low brow TV
• French Press Coffee?
• Comments SPAM interlock
• Technology, Unintended consequences, and security

September 2003 (49)

• SF Recommended Authors
• NASA culture even worse?..
• Comfort Foods Reduce Stress
• Wall Street and Atkins
• Carrots, Eyesight, and Radar
• Coventry Cathedral
• PKI vs. KISS
• Word Recognition
• More on Can you Raed Tihs?
• Blackout.IT
• Lego Escher
• Personal Copying Legal in US Too?
• More book banning
• Workweek Causes Climate Changes
• Natural Choice USA
• Happy Equinox, and eggs
• We’re back…
• How Ravenous Soviet Viruses Will Save the World
• U.K. phone retailer bans e-mail
• Bluetooth DOA?

August 2003 (32)

• Site Traffic
• Failure is Always an Option
• Rubber Ducky, You’re the One
• Comment SPAM
• site traffic 2
• Gallery Remote
• 10 Commandments sound and fury
• Why is Outlook so popular?
• Zombie Infection Simulation
• How To Change Anything
• Digital Retouching Examples
• blog.org
• Stay tuned…
• Is Email Broken?
• DNS issues?
• Blackout Satellite Images
• Early Blackout Photos
• Blackout Cause
• A Thank You
• The Great Blackout of 2003

July 2003 (21)

• Ties Cause Blindness!
• DEET and sunscreen together?
• This Shouldn’t Be News…
• Quotes from the Trip
• Coincidence?
• Sweeping The Alley
• Firenze Pictures Uploaded
• Vacation without the bulge
• The Car Died
• If You Go Out To The Woods Today…
• Speculating on the new commute
• Firenze
• The Voyage Home
• Hair
• The more things change…
• What a long day.
• WISH 54: Background Hooks
• More Manned Spaceflight
• Quick Links
• Happy Birthday!

June 2003 (9)

• Do we need astronauts?
• MP3 Players
• In Law We Trust
• High Availability is not Cheap
• Train Station Security
• A good weekend
• Fifteen
• Bicycle Theft
• Kid’s Books I Really Like

May 2003 (13)

• New Passport Forms are confusing
• The 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference
• People Still Don’t ‘Get’ Passwords
• WISH 47: Lessons Learned
• SPAM Escalation
• Weather uncooperative
• Gruntled
• Digital Cameras
• Lunar Eclipse
• Under Gruntled
• Matchmaker
• Kite Flying
• They Grow Up

April 2003 (18)

• Backups
• Homepage update
• WISH 44: Picking Games
• SMTP works just fine, thank you
• Wha?
• Weight Watching continued
• Playing with Time
• Good Weather and 802.11b
• Vigorous exercise required
• Sick Kids
• Miscellaneous System Notes
• The Monty Hall ‘Paradox’
• First Toronto, now Ontario?
• Life in Space
• GTA Bloggers
• Mad Scientist or Evil Genius?
• I’m not the only one playing with technology
• Snow?

March 2003 (18)

• Billing System Confusion
• Changes at BAKKA
• mini vacation
• One Year
• Big Fat Pipes Don’t Make Money
• Good Weather and Maple Syrup
• Spell Checkers don’t?
• English sans French
• Slow response for the next week
• The Vocabulary Test
• The Tyranny of Email
• Freedom Fries? Oh please…
• get_weather_ca update
• How to recognize Bad Science
• Weight goal in sight?
• Trying to lose weight improves survivability
• Good Quote
• Ice. Cold.

February 2003 (20)

• Proving Once Again That It’s All Porn and Money
• Cravings “Waist Watchers” mini cheesecakes
• Weight Goals
• Cheese or Peanut Butter?
• another get_weather_ca update
• My D&D statistics
• get_weather_ca update
• Courage
• What’s a Calculator?
• Weightloss: time for a spot check
• New Solar Power for Buildings
• MovableType 2.6
• Feast to Famine
• Elves and Pirates
• The Megalomaniac’s Desktop
• Not Reading
• She can read!
• SimpleComments
• A Weight Milestone
• Hitting the stress wall

January 2003 (29)

• Trackback to Debbie
• Weblogs; usenet done over?
• We’re All Above Average
• FreeBSD has hibernate support
• Anti-DRM Lobby Group
• Equal Access
• Dances with Systems
• Influences
• More on Schools
• Blogging Politics
• Harry Potter
• Ethical Philosophy in 30 seconds or less
• The Cost of Lost Passwords
• Snood
• The Future
• The Best Paper Airplane?
• Friendly Fire
• How to Grow a Bully
• Another trackback test
• Iraq vs. Korea