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Updates from the PassNerd

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

My web site 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 passnerd.com/?mobile ) You can enter the password length into the URL, for… Continue Reading Updates from the PassNerd

Building the Baby’s Room

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

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

Fantacura Mk II

Friday, March 5th, 2010

My old 2001 Acura EL had a list of problems that were only getting worse and had to do with its 236,500 km plus age. So it was time to upgrade! My wife Lindsay and I had three cars on our list, all used cars in that 3 to 4 year old or 40,000 km… Continue Reading Fantacura Mk II

No more RimCount.com

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

In 2007 I created a web site to designed to help everyone, principally me, track your luck with the Tim Horton’sâ„¢ roll-up promotion and let users share their experience with others. Today Rim Count has been shut down. The site required a little bit of work to update the content for 2010, but more than… Continue Reading No more RimCount.com

Adding comments to my blog

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Unless you’re reading this posting via Facebook, you may have noticed that you now have to sign in to add comments to my blog postings. I tried to resist as long as possible, but the signal to noise ratio was getting too high for me whenever I had to approve comments. I could have add… Continue Reading Adding comments to my blog