Daniel Wintschel is humandoing

That title has been in my mind for days now, but sadly I haven’t had time to write anything. Which is to say, I’m getting that “before Christmas” burnout, which is translating into more and more Gears of War and less and less Actual Useful Stuff Getting Accomplished. One problem that I have with Evil [...]

Just for kicks. The “base” iPhone plan in Canada (by our favorite company Rogers Wireless) is advertised at $60/month. This plan manages to offer what I like to call “No Value Whatsoever” – whereas Rogers believes it offers their customers “flexibility” and “special value bundles”. I don’t know how Yoga relates to this, and unless [...]

I wanted to write to you to share my growing concern over the excessively expensive price plans provided by Rogers to their cellular customers. This is something I’ve been upset (even angry) about for a number of months, but the recent release of the iPhone plans has pushed me to the point where I have [...]

It’s a typical story. Dan on a rescue mission, fixing a mess that some clown(s) left behind. PHP. No framework to speak of, riddled with SQL injection holes, a TABLE-based layout – and it doesn’t get any better from there. For the love of all things holy, why do people have to do stuff like [...]

I’ve just been doing some reading up on some various Java documentation – and came across the list of new language features in Java 5 (yeah – I know, we’re at 6 now). At any rate, I came across this gem about static imports, copied verbatim from Sun’s online documentation: So when should you use [...]

I just wanted to blog about this because there are a ton of people having this problem and Apple is doing jack about it. For examples, please see some photos on flickr (broken G5 iMac screens). I purchased a G5 iMac (w/iSight, 1.9GHz, S/N W85422*, conveniently out of the range of those covered under the [...]

It’s been officially 16 days since arriving back in Canada. At last my cell phone works (which, incidentally, was purchased brand new and activated at a Rogers store), but not without several days of a non-usable phone, while I waited for Rogers to “look into it”, a bunch of phone calls to tech support, and [...]

After about 7 weeks on the road (Jordan, Israel, Italy, Austria and Germany), my wife and I finally made it back to Canada. It’s taken only a couple days for the Cell Phone companies here to frustrate me beyond belief. Having gotten used to paying the equivalent of CAD$12/month for a cell phone plan in [...]