Malcolm's Ramblings

So, just under a year ago, I said that the thing that RIM (now known as Blackberry) need to do is get their BBM service/application on other devices, and apparently, that’s going to happen. Here is my original post: Idea to Help Save RIM Blackberry Messenger is a service that I think they need to port Read more

Ryan Hellyer direct messaged me on Twitter recently to link me to something I wrote over four years ago about GPL and what it was doing to the WordPress community. I have to admit that back then I was sometimes contrary just to be contrary, and enjoyed debating the anti-WordPress side here and there on Read more

I have been thinking about my Internet connection lately. I have a pretty solid cable Internet connection from Distributel currently. I was nervous about signing on with them, but it has been great so far, except that things are a bit slow. The connection that I received from them was a 10/0.5mbps connection for about Read more

I have written about my opinions on the F-35 before (F-35s Scrapped and Government and Military: Bad Decisions) and my opinion hasn’t really changed: I still think the F-35 is potentially the wrong plane for Canada. Now, there is an article on the Toronto Sun talking about the potential of the Taranis unmanned drone platform. Read more

At work today, we started what will hopefully be a weekly scheduled meeting where we will organize the direction of the company, and keep track of the progress on various projects. Being that it was the first one, it went for twice as long as what some people expected, but I got to learn about Read more

One of my old favourite WordPress community blogs, the WordPress Tavern, is potentially back from mothballs with its original author, Jeff Chandler. Some of you might know that Jeff had me as his co-host for his WordPress Tavern audio podcast a few years back, called WordPress Weekly. I’ve always hoped to see him be able Read more

For those of you that don’t know about Kickstarter, it is a site where you help back projects with your money, and based on how much you invest, you get different rewards. If the project doesn’t get enough investment to meet its goal, no money is charged. I have invested in a number of projects Read more

With my cousin, Mark, and I having a server to ourselves to play the Direwolf20 pack of Feed the Beast, we have been playing for several months, and have gotten to the point where we can do anything and everything and so the game has, once again, lost some of its appeal. The mod pack Read more

Note: The following is a transcript of a forty minute session Annie and I had recording our engagement story. I will be posting the audio later today, but it will only be for family and friends, as it mentions many names, and people don’t feel comfortable with their names out on the Internet and I Read more