Gordaen's Blog

I try to not be too critical of English errors, but sometimes it is hard to overlook them. I bought new baking sheets recently and glued to them was a piece of thin cardboard with generic info. Now, I’m sure 90% of people never look at this stuff, but I started to read it while [...]

I’ve always been intrigued by the similarities between a computer and a human brain. I also find it fascinating that DNA is essentially a program for saying how our cells should develop. However, more interesting than either of those is the possibility of completely creating a synthetic life form by essentially building DNA the way [...]

The grammar of this advertisement is confusing enough without adding a typo on top. Oh well, no one ever said that brains were a requirement for advertising…

Oh Dreamhost, how often you have screwed up! At first, I was one of those optimistic guys: “Crap happens; at least DH informs customers about their problems.” More mistakes were made, and I shifted toward the sarcasm defense mechanism. “Oh, someone hacked into a few thousand DH accounts. Dreamhost security is the best.” Now… now, [...]

This is one of the photos I took of the Nooksack River yesterday. It was raining pretty heavily, but my camera seems to have survived the short expedition.