No, seriously. I got an e-mail today from UTIAS indicating that three resident professors had requested interviews with me for a Master’s degree program. I have to contact them within the week to set up interviews via phone or in person (the latter is more likely, since it’s only about an hour from Peterborough to [...]

It seems that a Japanese company known as Genepax is touting an over-sized battery as a fuel cell that runs on plain old water and air. The system uses what the company has termed a “membrane electrode assembly,” or MEA, to split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen through a “chemical reaction.” Well of course it’s [...]

A few days ago I decided to hit up Canada’s Wonderland for the first time in several years. One of the triggers for this was to try out their new hypercoaster, known as Behemoth (Wikipedia article). I woke up at 8:00am on Sunday morning and drove up to Bloor St. to meet up with my brother. [...]

As some of you may know, today (April 24th) marked the release of Ubuntu version 8.04, code named Hardy Heron. This release is a Long Term Support release, meaning that it will be supported with security updates through 2011. My upgrade to Hardy from Ubuntu’s previous version (7.10 Gutsy Gibbon) has not gone as smoothly as [...]

I have been getting many questions regarding our aircraft, the KS-77 Vermillion, as to the direction of flight. It seems most of you think it is flying backwards. Well, it’s not. The KS-77 does indeed fly forward, although I think I know where all the confusion is coming from. You see, the directionality of nearly [...]

I tried several times over the past week and a half to write a post but have had trouble finding the time. Last Friday (April 4th) I had a thesis draft due. This involved staying up all night on Thursday to get as much done as I could. Although my final progress wasn’t as far [...]

As I am sure many of you know, today marks the effort of Earth Hour, a day when people all across the world will turn out their lights for one hour, from 8:00pm to 9:00pm in their local time zone. I modified the theme a little bit to show my support for the effort (although [...]

As I am sure many of you are aware, Mr. Reznor recently released the NIN album Ghosts I–IV. This album is released under the Creative Commons, and as such, may be legally distributed. You may pick up the entire collection in lossless (FLAC) format here. I encourage you to purchase the album. The same download I [...]

I have begun the initial steps of preparing my 4th year undergraduate thesis. I have chosen to write my thesis in LaTeX2e because of the simplicity of writing large amounts of mathematical equations as well as the superior layout capabilities offered by the TeX typesetting system. This leaves two problems. The first is “how should my [...]

I have been working on modifying the Minimalia theme by Dale Mugford and Matthew Good, tweaking it here and there to suit my needs. I was planning to wait at least another week before updating the site, but decided its close enough to just work for now. I will continue making changes to it over the [...]