Google Chrome recently decided to upgrade my Adobe Flash to version 10.1, which I asked it to do because I enjoy using up-to-date (not bleeding-edge technology, but close to it). Shortly thereafter, I noticed that every time I went to a webpage containing one or more audio-bearing flash elements, all the other audio on my [...]

Up here in the Great White North, we have to sit by and watch in agony as other countries roll past us in mobile telephonic hardware. It takes a very long time for new phones to come to us, even when they are first released in our close neighbour, the United States. Well, today is a [...]

This week’s episode of Futurama, titled Proposition Infinity, made a reference to Clone High, a one-season animated series that aired in 2002-2003. “Cloney Island” is Principle Scudworth’s plan for a clone-themed amusement park, and he is stealing resources from the Board of Shadowy Figures to accomplish his goal. I personally really like Clone High, and I [...]

I’ve been reading up on a lot of computer hardware recently in preparation for building my new system. Although I don’t have the specifics pinned down yet, it will likely be based on an Intel Core i7 860 processor running on a P55-based motherboard with 8 GiB of DDR3 RAM. In this process, I have [...]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to give you a heads up that Matt’s Live at the Concert Hall performance airs tonight on Bravo! at 10pm EST. My brother and I were at the recording for the show and it was a lot of fun; very different atmosphere than a traditional rock concert. It was particularly [...]

I am in the process of trying to get hardware video acceleration working via VDPAU on my T61 laptop. Rather, I should say I was working on this, as I in fact succeeded (mostly) today. In the process, I had to upgrade my laptop from Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) to 9.10 (Karmic Koala). On one [...]

The past 24 hours have been.. well, interesting. Yesterday (which was a Friday, for those of you counting) I swung by my apartment to pick up my hockey gear. The elevators were not working, so I had to take the stairs. The emergency lights were on, however so were all of the main lights. My [...]

I need a new phone. I mean, I desperately need a new phone. My current phone, a Samsung SPH-A500, is many years past its prime and is flakey and unreliable at best. Lately, it seems to enjoy entering “safe-hold” mode and is unable to boot. My replacement phone will have certain characteristics, including but not [...]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to write you a quick note welcoming you (belatedly) to 2010; hopefully this year I will do a better job of regular posts (Ha!).