The Story in my Head

When my siblings and I were little, my dad read us the Hobbit, then the Lord of the Rings series. I remember being captivated by the story of the little fuzzy-footed people who fought dragon’s and orcs, and by the spiritual under-tones of the prose. It was an adventure we shared with our dad, and [...]

Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Mother’s Day

It’s Mother’s Day today, so I wanted to take a few minutes to honour (<- Canadian spelling) two of my favourite mom’s in the whole world.
The short, white lady in this picture is my mom (I’m not sure who that baboon-looking dude is next to her, but its not my dad.) She just got back [...]

Posted on May 11th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Behold the power of my new work computer!

So since I’m working off site, I need to take a little piece of the office with me. Rather than load up 4 physical server machines, my boss decided it was best to buy me one big one, which will run 4 virtual servers on it.
So we got me one of these. A PowerEdge 1900.
The [...]

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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And another thing…

Here’s something else we’re going to miss about the States: Christian radio.
We just don’t have it in Canada. There’s a few stations with like a 10-15 mile broadcast range, but nothing like what we’ve got here. I was listening to Air 1 this morning, singing along on my way to work, and I realised how [...]

Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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I Hate Ma Bell

The only thing more annoying than dealing with Ontario Health Care is dealing with Ontario Internet Providers. It is unfathomably difficult to get uncapped, un-shaped Internet in Ontario. You cannot imagine.
In short, there are only two services (lower than T1) that offer it. Rogers Business High Speed, and Bell Business Ultra High Speed. No independent [...]

Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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A hurriedly prepared post with some low frame-rate videos in it…

I got home to Canada this weekend, for all of about 36 hours. Got to see my kids, spend some time with my wife, and change a few diapers. While I was there, Benjamin got his first hair cut. He was a very good boy through the whole thing, and of course, he looks adorable [...]

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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We Like Roy!

Let’s try this another way. Here’s how to be, happy — my formula, anyway. If you’re interested in other formulae, I’m sure there’s someone out there who can fill you in.
WORK
And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward [...]

Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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Release Party!

Here it is… heavily Photoshopped, of course, to remove most identifying markers.
4.4 is now shipping and it is good… and I was a part of it.

I’m proud of this release — and I should be, I’ve been working on it a long time. I did good work, the team did good work, and its a [...]

Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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R2D2 Projector

Had we been unable to have children… I would have settled for one of these instead.
Make sure you watch the video, its very drool-worthy!

Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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No Carrier Signal Detected

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
You know that scene in the Matrix where Neo needs to learn Kung Fu, so they load in a disk, hit a button, and within a few moments Kung Fu is loaded into his brain via the Matrix?
Maybe that’s science-fiction, but its not [...]

Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Wise
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