Thanks for all your profound, inspiring and helpful inventions Steve. You’ve made an admirable mark on the world.

A minor post - mostly for my own notes.. I was setting up an instance of Trac and I wanted Active Directory authentication going. I’ve had this before, but I recently learned of Centrify which provides a VERY easy means to setup system authentication with AD. This meant I needed to find a Centrify-specific way to get …

When it was but a closet The Initial Setup And Finally… Shortly after moving in to my house, I opted to use a room for my Geekery (formerly known as “Nerdery”).. I dedicated circuit for power installed to make this closet remotely suitable to set up my hacky server “rack” (AKA Ikea Shelf) in. Update (Apr 26) This hack …

I went to a Protospace talk recently where I listened to a wonderful 4 hour talk about Thorium based reactors. Suffice to say it was time wonderfully well spent. I’m so energized and psyched. I’ve really liked Nuclear power in the past, but that’s given way to this even better alternative. Seems a great deal safer and …

For a while I’ve had this Calgary Traffic page that brings together live web cam images from the city’s public traffic website. I didn’t really like that I couldn’t see all the cameras from the view they give, so I whipped up a page to do it for me.. Anyway, I just updated the page as I found they’ve since added …

I saw this post on Instructables where someone asked how they could add an LED on to a high-voltage source. And for reasons I can’t explain, I just felt compelled to take a crack at it… On the surface it’s a pretty boring/simple question. But on the other, as much as I’ve answered this question for myself several …

Here’s a quick recipe for getting a server up with MediaWiki running and having Active Directory Logins working with it… I’ll warn you, there are other ways of doing this. I find this to satisfy my needs, but if you manage to cause the world to implode, I won’t be held responsible. Step 1: Set up your server I created …

Well, after a craptacular number of requests via email and youtube, I’ve finally finished tossing together a Windows version to help out all my anonymous totally random friends. I should point out, THIS WORKS on Windows 7 (and quite probably Windows Vista). But I should confess the lame situation with the …

Photos from Grandma Smith's 100th Birthday Shindig! For those in the know, my mother’s mother has just officially turned 100! **This woman is one of the most impressive and interesting people I know. ** A master-knitter amongst far too many more things to enumerate, she’s traveled quite the path thus far. Everyone on …

Exhibit A: Exhibit 2: Damn, seriously. Shaw Gigabit Fibre Internet doesn’t bother Transmitting Data, it TELEPORTS it! Here I sit in my bed @ my parent’s place on Christmas Eve. I decided to test out their new internet connection & router by enjoying another kind of “Eve”, Eve Online. The Air is on fire, but in the …