Keyboard input methods - this is one thing that has been bugging me since my switch to Mac OS X.

Actually it is more like 3 problems.

The first one is the way I have to cycle through input methods using Cmd+Space and Alt+Cmd+Space. I know 4 languages …

Here is my take on the origin of the Canadian "eh?"

The French keyboard layout.

When you want to type in French, the easiest way is to switch to the French keyboard layout, instead of using the Alt + 0XXX codes for the accented vowels and the c-cédille. However, once you …

Time for a little technical post.

Date and time manipulation are one of the most common components in web applications. This is true for a few reasons:

1. Web applications can have users coming from anywhere around the globe, under many different timezones.
2. Chances are that you receive date and time …

Hello everybody, I know I haven't posted in the longest time. I have been lazy/busy/travelling in the past months. Anyway, here it goes ...

My long vacation started off with a trip to Hong Kong and China. In fact, it was pretty much the main theme of the whole …

I have been tutoring grade 8 math for some time. And let me tell you that it is not easy. Doing grade 8 math is one thing, but tutoring/teaching it is a completely different story. The trouble is that, by dint of having done a lot of much harder …

Exams were over more than a week ago. 3 of the 4 grades are already posted, the only grade missing being that of the capstone project. I can be sure that I'm graduating on time because there is pretty much no way that I can fail the capstone project.

So …

After 4 years of blood, toil, tears, and sweat, (most of) my friends and I finally got our iron ring this Friday, March 24th. Having this special symbol of the engineer on the pinky feels great but it's also difficult to not notice its presence. For instance, washing your hands …

I don't like many of my "fellow" students.

Among all Concordia students, the engineering and computer science guys are probably the filthiest. The men's washroom on the 8th floor of the Hall Building has a constant smell of pee and its toilets are full of toilet paper turds. Seriously, how …

If any of you has been visiting this blog through Mozilla with the Tidy-based HTML validator extension, you may notice that the page now validates perfectly with no error and no warning at all, instead of having 1 warning like before. The problem had to do with the Flash movie …

Note: In order to not waste your time, I have decided to present the morals of the story before the actual story.