Writ of Mainprize

Is it just me, or has salsa dancing exploded in popularity? It seems like there are salsa clubs springing up everywhere, and so many people are either going salsa dancing or taking lessons. I didn't even realize the popularity of salsa until my girlfriend and I started taking lessons together. I have to say, salsa dancing is a LOT of fun! The dancing is fast enough and just complicated enough to keep things interesting for a long time. Even when you get all messed up in a dance move, there's no real pressure, just laugh and carry on! We'll finish our Level 1 class tonight, and probably sign up for Level 2. We have yet to test out are new skills at a real salsa club yet. Hopefully we'll get our dancing shoes on, soon, and head for the clubs!

Yesterday, I turned on the TV to sort of watch the Ten Commandments — You know, the original with crazy NRA Charlton Heston? Anyways, it turned out that ABC was airing a new remake of the Ten Commandments. Tuning in part way through I wasn't that interested in watching it, but I was confused enough to look up the ABC website to find out what this movie was. Then I stumbled across a few websites about the variations in the Ten Commandments. There is a good entry in the wikipedia about the Ten Commandments and there is another one looking at the Hebrew origins of the Ten Commandments. ... Read the full post »

I've often wanted to try out solar power to offset electricity consumption, but prices and the power output of these systems makes it impractical. Recently, prices have dropped, solar panels have become more efficient and home "plug-and-play" kits are becoming available. For the most part, solar power is still in the realm of environmental enthusiasts and eco-hippies, but I think that it will become more and more mainstream in a few years. Here are a few interesting sites, some informative, some offering commecial products Real Goods "Products for an ecologically sustainable future" SolarPowerStoreA solar power store located in Ontario. Website is way out of date (2001) Solar Power in CanadaA slide presentation with some very good data relating to energy and solar power use in Canada. ... Read the full post »

Keeping track of a computer's devices and installed software is pretty tricky if you do it by hand, but Belarc has a handy-dandy tool that gives you a quick summary of just about everything about your computer! Just install a little program that you can download for free and run it. It creates a nice little web page file that summarizes everything installed on your computer. And don't worry, nothing is transmitted to Belarc or anywhere else for that matter, your info is stored on html files on your computer.

O.k. I'm at work, and I can't do any work, because all of my code, data, and documents are on a network share disk. And that system is totally dead at the moment. At the moment then, mainprize.ca is a more stable machine than my work machine.