This is classic. Apparently the mayor of Chicago wants a “no-fly-zone” over his city for non-commecial aircraft, apparently in order to stop things like that accident in New York from happening “on purpose” as it were. But ignoring the fact that this… more »

It seems that I just can’t let a ClearType-related post go by without adding my own 2¢. Like this one from Michael Kaplan, “It is Clear[Type] how the quality is being managed.” The thing is, I had a bit of a revelation a few weeks ago about this whole… more »

I was reading Channel 9 the other day, and I noticed this comment about software firewalls: I use a router (Firewall) Software firewalls are a stupid waste of clock cycles imho. I don’t actually have a Channel 9 account (because I’m lazy) but I sti… more »

It's pretty well-known that public transport in my home-town of Sydney is not all that great. I mean, I used to live in the western suburbs, but got so sick of catching the train that I started driving to work – even with all the traffic, it took about t… more »

For a while now, I’ve been using variable-width fonts when I’m programming. It just makes my code look so much nicer and easier to read. I’ve typically used Verdana as my font of choice, but since I got a copy of the Vista beta, I’ve started to use Ca… more »