Out of The PIT

That's ticking backwards? Huh, I just noticed that the proposed changes to the TFSA has changed one thing that nobody is harping on: They've removed the indexing to inflation. That means that over time, the actual value (in today's dollars) that you can put into the TFSA will decrease over time rather than stay constant as it does with the original indexing method. Interesting that everybody is focusing on the doubling of the contribution when in 35 year's time, the value that you can sock away will be half of what you can put away now with an inflation rate of 2%. At 5% it'll only take 14 years to halve your effective contribution room.

Won't be able to.

I normally keep my lunch in these large glass containers which I store in the fridge and pick up each morning before I go to work. Last night, my dad made a whole lot of spaghetti and used these containers to hold the extra pasta to use later in the week. This morning I grabbed a container and figured that it was my lunch since it had the same heft as my lunches usually have. When I got to work, I realized that I had picked up a container of plain spaghetti at which point I realized that I was buying lunch today. I'm spending some time to upgrade my servers to the just released Debian 8. Lets see if we get some new toys to play with!

I had a dream on the weekend where I came across this small bunny rabbit, that looked more like a stuffed animal that was really thin and looked so hungry. It looked like a tube with bunny features as it was six inches long and only a couple of inches wide. The rabbit had just caught a small insect and ate it, but looked too tired and hungry to do much, so I went up to it and picked it up with my left hand. It struggled for a bit but after it calmed down tried suckling on my thumb. After realizing that was going no where, tried suckling on one of the buttons on my shirt. This also proved fruitless for the rabbit and it started to cry with such a sorrowful wail that I decided to find some nourishment for the critter. MJNL and I got into the car and I drove to a nearby mall, which was jam packed with cars and people. I was able to squeak into one of the short term parking spots and told the bunny that we'd be right back. I quickly rushed into the mall, which had a strange pyram...

I used to have a list of bookmarks on my homepage so I could check up on the various web sites that I frequent. Before The PIT went down, I actually set up a page to display the latest feeds from the various home pages that I frequented as well, but when the server went down, all of my links went with it. I did have an archive of those links, so it wasn't as if they were gone, but I liked having a place where I could access this information from anywhere. Well, now that I've finally got my new server up and running, I can do it again! Except I have decided not to. These days everybody and their dog has a feed (RSS or Atom) and browsers and some applications can handle and check feeds so simply and easily now that there really is no need for me to have a dedicated page for all of this. Google used to offer a place to track feeds, but since they dropped that service, I've decided to just use a local app and not use a browser. So now I have a few dozen feeds that I keep tr...

Uh oh. I noticed an odd video in my YouTube subscription list and decided to check it out. It was a message from YouTube indicating that my device will not longer be supported in the next update of YouTube. My device, the original iPad, is basically only being used to view YouTube videos as it is currently too slow to do much else. Without YouTube.. well, I will have to see what other apps still work on this guy and decide on what to do with it. It has served me well for nearly 5 years..

I had a dream last night where MJNL and I were on a roller coaster. It was a fairly tame one, and at the end of the ride, there was a lamp post with a free ticket attached to the lamp portion. Those daring enough could try to stand up to grab the ticket, and I tried my luck. Unfortunately even after standing up and reaching up I was still a few feet too short, and jumping would have been too dangerous, so I just let it slide. After we got off the ride, we went into the shop to look for trinkets, and a group of other people came in with the lead guy waving the free ticket. Apparently he had climbed up the pole to grab the ticket, so I went outside to look and noticed that the pole wasn't that high up after all and anyone could have done the same thing.

So one of the houses in our neighborhood exploded ! Before the explosion. You can see the effects from before and after. After the explosion. Not a pretty sight. The before picture is a satellite image from Google Maps. The second is the image from the twitter feed I linked above.

This dog definitely got shafted.

So we've closed another season of broomball and now I will be on right arm sports hiatus for at least the next two and a half weeks. I hope my arm will be able to take advantage of the rest. I would like to be right handed again, although training for ambidexterity would be a pretty cool thing to put on a resume..

So it seems as if the TrueCrypt audit has been completed and the program has been given a green light. Too bad it is no longer under development..

This kickstarter for GNL Mats is tempting..

Wow, it has been three years since our wedding website has been online. I've finally put it back up on my own server !

While I was cleaning up and "fixing" The PIT (which I am happy is on a named host rather than an IP address now), I would on occasion start reading some of my old entries and comments and get lost in the banter that used to go on on the website. I remember being obviously obtuse in my remarks, but mostly to protect the ones I talk about, especially after the two not-so-nice conversations I had. In any case, because of my obtuseness and terrible memory, some of these entries are a little annoying as the subject matter is unknown, but some others did bring back memories. So, good enough I guess. If it was important enough to be remembered, I would have remembered it.

I decided to bite the bullet and purchase a domain name. It was high time I guess. I now own BEGghILOS2.net, and I've set up my old static web sites on one of my virtual servers. This link should be a bit more permanent..