[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] Name: William Lachance
Member since: 2001-07-29 07:53:10
Last Login: 2008-10-10 20:41:14
Notes: 28 year old software developer in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Worked on a whole gamut of projects, mostly desktop and/or network related.
You can reach me at wrlach@gmail.com
Green Party Rally in Halifax
Decided to head out to the train station yesterday to see the conclusion of Elizabeth May's whistle stop tour across the country. She gives a pretty good speech: definitely the most forthright and articulate person in Canadian politics these days. If you care about such things, you ought to listen to her appearance on cross country checkup last week.
http://www.cbc.ca/checkup/archives.html
Yes, this means I'm not voting for the NDP this time around. Maybe I'll consider them again once they start talking seriously about global warming and peak oil. As it is, their focus on "kitchen table issues" (basically a few new proposed social programs) seems like nothing more than politics as usual, a totally inadequate response to the serious problems we're facing. I've been cynical about electoral politics for a long time, but seriously guys, get real.
The crowd was decent (maybe 100?) in spite of the fact that there was virtually no advance publicity for the event. Not being an actual member of the party, I only found out about this through some digging on the Internet. I'll bet anything that with better organization, that number of people present could have been multiplied by 10. Something to think about...
Syndicated 2008-09-28 17:45:31 from Ginger tea and channa masala
Lola with mouse
Friedrich caught another mouse this morning. I think that makes two for him, tying him with Lola (pictured) for number of vermin killed in the Côté/Lachance household.
It's incidents like this that remind me that cats are actually insanely useful animals. It wasn't too long ago that rodents were a huge menace to public health and the food supply. In order to prosper, we needed some way of controlling their population, and the domesticated feline provided.
Perhaps the development of civilization can be attributed not just to ourselves, but also the organisms that we have a relationship with. Not only cats, but domesticated crops, dogs, bees, and innumerable other things. Following this metaphor, perhaps the human animal can be likened to the nerve cells of a much larger organism: necessary for its development perhaps, but hardly sufficient.
Surely I'm not the only person to have thought of this.
Syndicated 2008-08-18 19:09:01 from Ginger tea and channa masala
Macintosh Smackintosh
I picked up a Mac Mini earlier this week, primarily for work related reasons. The user interface is indeed as shiny as people claim, but I'm amazed at how often the whole operating system seems to _completely_ block on some stupid application. The most recent offender is iTunes: when faced with the task of copying a bunch of files from my desktop folder into its "music library" folder, the whole thing ground to a halt, completely locking up my computer (even my mouse wouldn't work). WTF? First off, why would iTunes have trouble with such an apparently simple operation? Was it written by monkeys? I can copy the same files in a fraction of a second using the file manager. Second, why would one badly-behaved application bring down the whole system? Does the mac have a terrible scheduler, does the UI just run in one thread, what?Syndicated 2008-08-16 14:18:44 from Ginger tea and channa masala
Cuisine Bangkok
I'm in Montréal for a few days. Had some time to kill yesterday, so I decided to check out if Cuisine Bangkok in the Faubourg was still around. Yes, indeed it is and a good thing too. Way above average Thai cuisine at food court prices. I got a plate of green curry chicken (with carrot and potato) and spring rolls for under $7. Divine. How do they do it? And why don't more of my friends in Montréal know about it? Go there you must. Strict vegetarians are excused, as I believe most/all their dishes are made with fish sauce.Syndicated 2008-08-03 15:54:06 from Ginger tea and channa masala
Work view from my window
I never particularly thought of myself as an outdoorsy person, but I must admit the allure of the wider world has recently become overwhelming. I look out the window, and my inner voice screams at my to stop what I'm doing and get out there. It doesn't help that Halifax only has tolerable weather 4 months out of every year (June - September).
Syndicated 2008-06-13 15:45:14 from Ginger tea and channa masala
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