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Despite its source, the quote just seemed wrong: “Your microwave uses more electricity to power the digital clock for the 23 hours and 55 minutes a day that you’re not using it than the five minutes you do to heat … Continue reading →

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Silent Planet Killers that we are allegedly harboring in our living rooms: TVs, VCRs and other consumer electronics which burn electricity even when turned off. I have a co-worker who jumped on that … Continue reading →

Empty nest, shortly after the eggs hatched In the spring a GigaMegaGeek’s fancy stubbornly stays focused on gadgets and coding, but some of my neighbours have other ideas. For the second year in a row, the company where I work … Continue reading →

This is a rare post that isn’t directly about programming or technology, but I wanted to pay tribute to a truly fascinating web site put together by a fellow resident of our highrise in west Toronto. Back in late March … Continue reading →

My wife’s PC occasionally (about once every 3 months) stops playing nice with the other PCs in my house, rejecting file sharing and print requests with an error message ” No more connections can be made to this remote computer … Continue reading →

Do you remember what it was like to be a teenager who never partied, never travelled, never got laid? Uh, me neither. But anyone who does can relate to how it feels to be a non-blogging software developer. Back when … Continue reading →