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I took a children's literature class in my second year of University. It wasn't my favourite class. However, our midterm was to write either a short children's story or yet another boring essay. I asked my children's lit prof if I could, instead, write an epic poem. Epic as in:... read more →

Here's a neat trick to never forget your password, while keeping it secure, that I heard about from somewhere on the interwebs a while ago, probably lifehacker. It's really very simple. You have a standard, secure password and you add a site-based string to it. So, say my standard password... read more →

While I don't generally like the idea of feminism (I can't get behind a movement that often asks society to create or worsen inequality in a way detrimental to others) that doesn't mean I don't like feminists. Greta Christina wrote an article titled fashion is a feminist issue and I really like... read more →

So, as usual I haven't written anything personal in a while. I've been working hard on my new web application that's basically just a clone of a couple dozen other websites out there. I'm not really striving for originality so much as I'm applying old solutions to unsolved problems. That's... read more →

This is a shorty but it was kind of irritating. It turned out to be a MySQL error that only occurred on my production server. Presumably this was because the version of MySQL was either different or configured differently on the production server as on my local development box. Either... read more →