Wayne D's Blog

The CFL has a new promotional video out and when I went to Youtube to view it I was disappointed with the quality. Then I saw the small "watch in high quality" link. That's neat, a little bit of Googling led me to how to embed high quality Youtube videos… more »

What used to make me mad and raise my blood pressure now becomes fodder for the blog grist mill. How is that for a mixed metaphor? I had a couple of checks to deposit and needed to get some cash to buy some Clamato juice on the way so I detoured off m… more »

I took this picture yesterday, it looks even worse and itches like mad. more »

Now that hard drives are so cheap I decided to copy a whole stack of archival DVD's onto a hard drive. I wanted to use a shell script because the copy was running on a machine that didn't have a monitor or keyboard attached. The idea was to feed it DVD's… more »

For a number of years the Explorer group that I help out with has gone canoing around this time of year near Parry Sound Ontario. One of the reasons to go at this time is to avoid the biting insects including black flies and mosquitoes which are prevalen… more »