Happy Thanksgiving to my American brethren and brethrenette, a well deserved two days off for all those hard working people -- us. Even though we had our Thanksgiving here in Canada a month and a half ago, having the mothership shut down is effectively...

Difficulties working with the Psycho Colleague (PC) is not news to anyone who has come in contact with him. In fact, the architect of the Flying Flux couldn't sleep for a whole night upon learning that the Psycho Colleague were to join the project. In...

The Psycho Colleague strikes again. This time, it was as a response to my request for him to do a bit of investigative simulation. A little while ago, I wrote about electromigration and its detrimental effect on silicon circuits. Although we recently...

This past Wednesday (Nov 11) was Veterans Day in the U.S. One of my colleagues mass e-mailed to a big swath of the company a patriotic poster depicting a saluting soldier in ceremonial uniform on one side juxtaposed with the head of a bald eagle on the...

For those that haven't heard, Canada has a shortage of H1N1 flu vaccines. And in Ottawa, the H1N1 vaccine clinics are currently restricting the shots to those in the high risk groups. One of my colleagues came to work today and boasted about his wife...