iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

While my wife was getting a valuable two hours of sleep before she was woken with contractions signaling the birth of our first born child 19 hours later, I was not quite tired enough to sleep. UnknowingIy missing out on my last chance to sleep for a while, I was typing away at a PHP… Continue Reading PHP script to download files from GMail

I am not a lawyer, and I am not prepared to give legal advice. That said, here are some general practices for dealing with copyrighted works that respect the tradition of academia and are influenced by the current realities in Canadian intelectual property developments. This is the same advice that I’ve been giving my Interactive… Continue Reading Integrating others’ works into your own: My practices

The Toronto Maple Leafs have won all three of their games so far this year. As of right now they are tied for first place over all with Washington. I’ve started building my bandwagon so that it’s ready for the Stanley Cup parade. Haven’t found any wheels yet, should I be worried that as soon… Continue Reading Started building my Toronto Maple Leafs bandwagon

My web site http://passnerd.com has had some recent updates. Here’s what to look for: There’s a new complexity picker. The site has got even more light-weight and should load even faster than before. There is a new mobile version ( preview it at http://passnerd.com/?mobile ) You can enter the password length into the URL, for… Continue Reading Updates from the PassNerd

After a lot of planning, sawing, hammering and a little bit of screwing [up] it is finally ready. I think I had a good plan and I benefited from [grand]dad’s experience. In the interest of practicing what I teach I modeled two walls worth of wainscotting in the tiny room via Google SketchUp. It helped… Continue Reading Building the Baby’s Room