Join Nim, this Christmas Eve, in his snowy, wintry tale, as he sweeps you away to a world of gremlin hooligans, giants slumbering, wolves slavering, and one little girl whose faith in good remains. Enjoy as Ola Schubert takes you to another place, a magical place, whimsically crafted and beautifully orchestrated, in Nim’s Vintersaga.
Author: Matt
How to Install MS TrueType Fonts on CentOS 5
I found the original post on how to do this over here at MS TrueType Fonts on CentOS 5 but just in case you’re intimidated by the rpm building commands I’ve decided to post the final RPM which is an easy install on CentOS 5 and you’re ready to go. Here’s the original excerpt from…
C.S. Lewis is Cleverer Than You Think
My good friend, Jamie, liked a Relevant Magazine article today titled C.S. Lewis’ 3 Most Controversial Beliefs. Both of us are a big fans of Lewis and it piqued my interest as much as Jamie’s, I’m sure. Some of the “controversies” noted would surely either convince his admirers that some of these claims are actually…
The Jian Ghomeshi Saga and Root Causes of Violence Against Women
The following is a letter I submitted to the CBC program The Current, hosted by talented radio personality Anna Maria Tremonti. In the letter, I have put to pen my increasing frustrations about the nature of the discussion surrounding violence against women and why it is that our public conversations never seem to get around…
How to make a movie trailer: Jurassic World meet Jurassic Park
I just caught the Jurassic World trailer and something bugged me as I watched. It was playing to the same old, tired Hollywood manipulation routines of every other ‘blockbuster’ move trailer. It got me thinking about what the original movie and how that original trailer, now 20+ years old, would hold up against modern trailers….
iRacing Force Feedback Settings
iRacing Force Feedback Settings I’m a big fan of iRacing sim racing and I frequent their forums quite a bit. I’ve seen a number of posts, over time, on the iRacing forums about people asking for the right force feedback settings for their wheels. As it turns out, this info in its complete form is…
Secrets of iRacing
Secrets of iRacing: Tips, tricks, resources, and other helpful information.
After Atheism: New Perspectives on God and Religion
When I work from home I often listen to podcasts and I’ve been listening to CBC Radio Ideas’ After Atheism this week. This is what I’d call a post-post-modern look at religion and materialism over the past few thousand years. This is a compliment as they recognize things like the resurgence of spiritual interest, the…
Cosmos 2014
I’ve been watching the 2014 Cosmos mini-series on Netflix and have to say, once you get past the evolutionary propaganda, it’s a really well-made, very polished and cleverly produced look at Earth’s history. The blatant focus on forcing the evolutionary belief over the scientific look at nature is pretty bad but once you get past…
Encoded.ca: Encode and Decode Stuff
As a developer, I find I’m often encoding something, decoding something, deobfuscating something, decoding urls or parameters, base64 encoding, wrapping/unwrapping, replying/unreplying, etc. So I made a web page that does that all that and you can find it at encoded.ca. I’ll certainly be adding more in the future.