Consider the invisible

This is the size of an 11-12 week old fetus.  Aborted fetuses don’t look this nice. Last Tuesday, SFX Church was the host of the CCBR New Abortion Caravan’s first talk on their cross-country trip from Vancouver to Ottawa.  Stephanie Gray was the main speaker.  Check out their website for some of the imagery and video they used in their talk.  After you see what happens in an abortion you will never look at abortion in the same way.

Saving keystrokes with a SSH client config file

I regularly have to SSH into my servers, and on most of the ones I connect to the SSH server is running on a non-standard port for obvious security reasons.  I used to include the port number manually in the SSH command, for example: [shell] ssh seymour.dennistt.com -p 922 [/shell] This worked… as long as I remembered to type the port number in, which was probably less than half the time on the first go.  So I finally got tired of having to retype the command with the port number in it.  Luckily you can create a SSH client configuration Continue Reading

Video: From Conception to Birth

This was one of the videos we watched at this year’s YouthConnX retreat at church. Each and every one of us went through the stage of life from conception to birth. To think that we were not human at any point during this time is quite impossible. Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth — visualized (the actual visualization starts at 2:00)

An eye for good design

What better to do on a 12-hour flight than to explore the in-flight entertainment (IFE) system looking at ways that it can be made better.  Having completed CPSC 344 (Human-Computer Interaction) last term, I have an even more eager eye looking at interface usability.  So here are some things I found about Air Canada’s IFE interface.

A photo of UBC used in a Vancouver blog

It’s pretty cool when you see your photo being used by other people on their sites. @cliveleung pointed out that one of my photos of UBC was used on Hello Vancity’s blog today, talking about UBC ranking 25th in the top 100 universities worldwide. Here’s the original photo: