On Saturday, Elizabeth and I got married out in Ormstown, and celebrated with a bunch of family and friends.

Elizabeth has already posted some of her thoughts here, I'll add a few things for now, starting with pictures.
( photos )

My grandfather died early this morning. We knew this was coming, he's been winding down for a while. He managed to stay home right to the end, with family close by. He was kind, active, smart and humble. He was always approachable and giving, and has a solid and consistent record of destroying me both at chess and table tennis. I'm glad I went ( Read more... )

There are a couple of evangelists, with an amplifier, out in front of de l'Eglise metro. We can hear them from up here, in the back of the apartment, with the windows closed.

update: fixed with help from plautus (and an interesting alternate explanation from tylerpistol)

I'm writing some PHP to take XML from a file. The file's in ISO-8859-1, and contains French accents and typesetter's quotes in its character data and some of its attributes. I've taken care to make the parser adapt itself to the character set and demanded that its ( Read more... )

So, I sign up for e-bills and check the "send me e-mail when bills arrive" option in March. I keep getting enough paper bills to impart a feeling of keeping up, but my phone/Internet bill keeps piling up in my e-bill thing without a single e-mail. Three days before they pull the plug, I call to change some stuff and am informed that they can't do ( Read more... )

Come on out, the biking weather's great!

I'm pretty much camped out down here by de l'Eglise with four cute furry mammals, adequately patched Internet and pretty much set up ( Read more... )

Jul3z offered to interview all comers, and I got these questions.
( five questions, five answers, all custom-made )

This may be my last entry from my current computer - my supervisor's acquired a new laptop and has decided to pass his on to me, and mine is tripping on down to loupdebois sometime in the near future... the "new" machine is actually the same vintage as my current one, but whereas I got the basic model, my supervisor's is the tricked-out one with a somewhat ( Read more... )

Anyone know how to get mail to change SMTP servers automatically when I choose a new network location? I'm running OS X 10.4 and it'd be really cool to be able to switch locations without digging around in Mail preferences...