http://kevin.mcguireclan.net Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:04:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to my Myers Briggs personality test, "Likes perks in the workplace like being able to bring your dog in". She looks like she should be wearing a FedEx uniform.  Actually, already close with the black and tan. http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/sarah-at-work/ Perhaps it's old news now since I was reading this in a month old copy of Maclean's magazine, but apparently Poznan, Poland, have recently acquired a gay elephant.  The controversy appears to be over the fact that after building an expensive enclosure and acquiring this elephant, their hopes of increasing ... http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/gay-animals-in-the-news/ Well I'm just tickled that I know someone who has published an iPhone app!  Tim Mackinnon, my good friend who I used to work with at OTI Ottawa and OTI London, has published an app called ReDo List.  If I had an iPhone, I'd buy this app, it looks really ... http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/redo-list-for-the-iphone/ Mike (McQ) reminded me of a song we worked on some time ago "What Lies Beneath".  As he says, The song is on a 7 bar loop, but it's so dance oriented that you're sure it's going to be 8 bars. I really like the resulting mental confusion this causes, ... http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/mini-song-what-lies-beneath/ Two days in a row at Bruce Pit is just too much fun for a doggie! [caption id="attachment_100" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Pooped Sarah!"][/caption] She sure is one happy doggie though! http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/one-pooped-doggie/ I'm not sure why Patti kept checking the B.A.R.K website, I knew it could only lead to one thing... a dog.  We're both suckers for sad dog stories and it was hard not to adopt each and every one of them.  But the plan was to get a Bernese ... http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/introducing-sarah/ The Samsung SyncMaster T240 is a 24" 1080p LCD. I just picked one up at my local computer dealer PCCyber for a pretty decent price of $300 CA, lower than I've seen at the big box stores and a pretty amazing price for a 24" 1080p LCD (for comparison, ... http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/product-review-samsung-syncmaster-t240-lcd/ Often when I ride my recumbent kids will light up and say things like, "wow, cool bike mister".  Parents will tell their children, "look at the neat bike".  This evening, one kid about maybe 10 said, "That looks like its really relaxing".  I told him he was very smart.  I ... http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/kids-know-recumbents-are-cool/ I'm just tickled that I've now been referenced from two news links: An infoworld article on the talk I did at EclipseCon with Tim Wagner An infoq article with a quote from my eclipse blog on the Eclipse e4 work Not that I go searching for such things (both I was informed of ... http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/positive-press/ Every now and then I read the Colour Lovers blog.  It reminds me that artists and designers think about colour in a very different way than the average Joe (and me included). This post on An Interview with Blue Iris, Pantone’s Color of the Year made me laugh out loud though.  ... http://kevin.mcguireclan.net/an-interview-with-blue-iris-pantone%e2%80%99s-color-of-the-year/