Free as in Time

From Shauna:

“Seen on a sign outside a church yesterday: A man with an idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

“I thought of you and giggled about my cranky boyfriend.”

This was a particularly difficult week week for me. There seemed to be fewer obvious choices. Then again, this might be a good thing. When forced to take a few more risks, the rewards might be much greater.

Without further ado, here’s my Hockey Night in Canada Fantasy Pool team for week 5:

I whipped up a batch of really simple chilli, and felt like sharing…

There are only two things about this recipe which are critical, and they come right up front. The first is the ratio of tomatoes to kidney beans. One 796 mL (28 fl oz) can of tomatoes to one 540 mL (19 fl oz) can of kidney beans. Yes, I use canned tomatoes. Yes I live in Canada through the winter. Did I mention that is recipe is also for super-cheap chilli? (More super-cheap recipes can be [...]

Our new digs, as of mid-December. Pictures on the other side of the break.

Last Thursday, I bought a book I couldn’t honestly afford. It’s a great book, but, sadly, also quite expensive. Today, with heavy heart, I returned the book.

As it turns out, The Bookshelf, an excellent bookstore here in Guelph, gives store credit for returns, rather than refunding one’s money. Given that book prices are sometimes just short of volatile, I can understand this. Unfortunately, this doesn’t help me buy groceries.

Would anyone like to buy $93.27 in Bookshelf credit for cash? If not, I guess everyone is getting books for Christmas…

Old news, but still funny:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

A couple of pages that came my way over the weekend. Thought I’d pass them along for those who are interested in these sorts of things…

Government promotes dumb terminals to cut global warming:

Under the proposals, small business and home users will access office applications and email and browse the Internet via a green PC service based on these datacentres. The home devices will use 98 percent less energy than standard PCs and be built with 75 percent fewer resources. A pilot service is expected in early 2007 with full [...]