mike’s place

I’m moving servers, from the old Textdrive shared BSD boxes to the shiny new Joyent shared accelerators. I’m also moving from a ‘/~mlarocque’ (yes I am an old-school unix geek) base url to ‘/mlarocque’. Redirects written, etc. I’m hoping not to break things. Too badly at least.

For those book/libarary lovers out there, here’s another magnificint gallery of some of the world’s most beautiful libraries. Magnificent.

For all of you book lovers out there, I present to you Red-Hot and Filthy Library Smut. As Homer (Simpson) might say, Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.

Being a physicist by training, it’s great to see Richard Feynman, one of my heros, on video.

Via Make Magazine.

Whoa, great news! Doug Bowman is moving to Google. Congratulations Doug! Great move by Google.

Ah, an oldie but a goodie. This morning I was reminded about this good piece of advice. Share it with your friends and family.

Arrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!!! Yesterday, DJ asked me to scan one of her videos into our Delicious Library. I added it to my todo list and was about to do it when I realized that the library data was likely a victim of the recent trauma. I just checked, and yup, my suspicions have been confirmed. It looks like [...]

Have you ever had one of those moments? You know the moment when you realize that something really bad â„¢ has happened. I had one of those a few hours ago. A gut wrenching realization that over 10 years of data has found its way to /dev/null.

As of today, my email history goes back a [...]

I wonder if this guy has
reproduced yet. Let’s hope not.

I think I need to start looking around the house for pods.
This evening, Kathryn and I were sitting on the floor, and I was feeding her supper. She’s almost two, but every once in a while she likes to eat in strange places - on the floor, sitting on the kitchen counter, etc, and have [...]

I was just spending a couple of hours catching up on reading my feeds when I had this ’strange’ feeling. I looked down at the ‘unread’ count in NetNewsWire, and saw this:

Oh oh!

Having trouble with New Year’s resolutions?
Try some advice from a Nobel Prize winner. My favourite method is ‘pre-commitment’.

1994? What’s this about 1994? It’s 2006!

Well, the 1994 is in reference to a bottle of Dom Pérignon which DJ and I – mostly I – consumed last night. It had been a birthday present a few years ago, and had been stored in our basement ever since.

We did our traditional quiet, stay at [...]

Rest in peace Mom. We love you.

A 200 foot pink bunny? Whoa! The plan is for it to remain there for the next twenty years. Double-Whoa!

Happy 5th Anniversary, hon!
Update: We had a wonderful picnic in Confederation Park this afternoon.

Wow! This is a great rendition of George Harrison’s “While my guitar gently weeps” done on the ukulele.

For all the DRS folks out there.

Whoa. Check out this cool optical illusion.

Happy 50th Birthday, Dave!