congrats to andrew and jenni

i went to andrew and jenni's wedding reception today - they got married in october on a beach in the mayan riviera in mexico but held an additional reception for andrew's northern contacts up here in toronto...

there was good food - lots of people to meet like andrew's mom (barbera?) and dad (jim), sister (heather) and brother (scott), cousins (craig and elisa?) and their respective spouses, not to mention his friends jen, aimee (and her own andrew), and that was only the tip of the iceberg of those in attendence - video montage's spanning both andrew and jenni's lives - and of course plenty of congratulations...

being on i guess the far opposite end of the relationship spectrum from andrew i can't really guess what this whole marriage thing is like for him but from the short time that i've gotten to know jenni (basically a few hours yesterday and today) i can already tell she's a great girl and andrew's a lucky guy... on the flip side, having known andrew for something like 8 years now (since we worked together at compublox) i know he's a great guy (even though i don't say it much) and that jenni chose well...

as such, although i gave them a card with wishes for the best of luck in the future i no longer believe they need it, or perhaps they'll make their own luck (if you prefer)...

so where's the processor throttling

BitTorrent, P2P Criticized by Internet Founder

i keep hearing about how p2p uses ever increasing amounts of bandwidth and how if you add more bandwidth p2p use will just grow to consume it all... all of which is used to justify throttling p2p traffic...

here's the thing, the same consumptive behaviour has been taking place with cpu resources used by software vendors for years... the more power you add the more power the next version of the software requires to do more or less the same thing so that my p3 800 winds up being no more responsive than the xt i used to use as a kid... worse still the operating system itself is one of the worst perpetrators of this... where's the cpu throttling? why aren't the vendors being chastised in a similar manner to p2p?

the problem with radio alarm clocks

one of the problems with radio alarm clocks is that occasionally the radio station you tune them to will actually play good music (gasp!) and occasionally this will happen right when the alarm goes off so that you don't know whether the music you're half-hearing is part of your own internal sound-track or a signal to get the hell up...

idea time

y'know what i'd like to see? i'd like to see a web app that helps you keep track of when the last time you contacted your friends was... basically it would list your friends and you'd be able to put in the date you last contact then and it would be sorted by oldest first so that you'd know which friendship has gone the longest without 'maintenance'...

not because keeping in touch with people is a chore or anything, but just because it's hard to monitor so many connections to make sure the lines of communication haven't gone dark for too long...

omg flickr is SLOW!

holy crap, i can't believe how slow flickr is... it just took me an hour and a half of fighting with flickr to get urls for the 2 photos from the last post... i actually ate my entire dinner in the time it took to render a single page... that's unusably slow... how do people manage to put up with that? and then there are the many, many links which don't actually do anything unless you copy and paste the link location into the location bar of the browser...

ugg...

do it yourself

y'know, when i see a product like this credit card sized fold away camera tripod i think to myself: self, why would anyone pay good money for what they could make with their own two hands out of a cereal box?...

and then i made my own (not quite as fancy) version out of a cereal box...


and just like the original, it folds up to the size of a credit card so you can put it in your wallet...
that said, with that big chunk taken out of the middle of it, it also fits in the belt loop of the soft case my camera came with so i don't have to clutter my wallet...