Assegai by Wilbur Smith
I am a huge Wilbur Smith fan and my bias may come through here. To sound impartial I will mention I didn’t get through his last book The Quest as it just couldn’t hold my attention. Assegai is the story…
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The Silver Age Of Comic Book Art
Picked this up at a discount book store in Toronto. The format and flashy cover caught my eye: thumbing it showed a nice selection of art from the top silver age artists so I bought it. The Silver Age Of…
SP 2 released for Vista and Server 2008
I was checking system updates on Tuesday and noticed Service Pack 2 was available for my Vista Ultimate 64 bit PC. I don’t remember a service pack being released and on the same day being available via Windows Update. As…
DC’s Wednesday Comics anthology
DC is launching a twelve-issue weekly series in July called Wednesday Comics. It’s being published broadsheet size 28×20″ and will be shipped folded twice to 7×10″. The series is the brainchild of DC’s art director Mark Chiarello who besides lining…
Homemade Ice Cream
Homemade ice cream was one of those items that pushed me into making things from scratch. A few years ago my wife bought me an ice cream maker for my birthday: I tried a bunch of the recipes that came…
Slow roasting
As part of my wife’s sandwich catering I handle all the meat production: curing, cooking, slicing. I had read in a few places about cooking whole cuts of meat at a very low temperature for extended periods but wasn’t able…
Belkin USB Charger
Blast from the past: originally published July 26th 2002. Now that I’m getting some use out of my HP Jornada 547 Pocket PC, I’m hot on the trail of useful accessories. Since my model came with a serial cable connection…
Max Payne
Blast from the past: originally published August 28th 2001. After a week of furious mouse and keyboard movement I’ve finished Max Payne. If you have any interest in PC gaming, you’ve heard it mentioned. Amazing visuals wrapped around a compelling…
WordPress Error 500 on 1&1 Web Hosting
Early this week one of my plugins had an upgrade available but when I clicked to upgrade automatically I received the following: Error 500 – Internal Server Error. Didn’t give it much thought and tried to log into this site…