I spent a few hours last evening in a gigantic mud pit -- which I can assure you is not as fun as it sounds. The purpose of my outing was to leave town (and the associated light pollution) and get into the country so that I could try to photograph yesterday's "World Series" [...]
Entries from October 2004
World Series Eclipse
October 28th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Tags: · Camera, D70, Nikon, Photography
Hamburglar
October 28th, 2004 · 4 Comments
I watched a man picking through the garbage bins outside McDonald's this evening. Such indecency. Why should someone have to sift through trash cans to scrounge something to eat? It struck me as one of the saddest things I've ever seen.
He proceeded to flop into his late model Cavalier and drive off.
It [...]
Tags: · Food, Oddities, Ottawa, Stories
Mac OS X on Windows XP
October 20th, 2004 · 2 Comments
There was something of a kerfuffle over the last week when CherryOS (page now disabled) claimed that Mac OS X could be used with any old Intel architecture computer as a virtual machine. As time passes, the website has gone missing and it seems more and more likely that CherryOS is a complete rip-off [...]
Tags: · Computers, Macintosh, Open Source, Software, Technology, Windows