I generally modify my computers with new hard drives and additional RAM after purchasing them. I added RAM to my iBook and replaced the HDD in both my MacBook and MacBook Pro. I bought a 250GB Seagate drive for my MacBook back in 2008 sometime and used it inside my MacBook Pro when I bought [...]

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In March 2010 I took part in a ceremony that all engineers go through once they complete their undergraduate degree in Canada. Called the “Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer“, it serves as a basis for remembering what engineering stands for and how an engineer’s work affects the public. It was written by Rudyard [...]

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The interwebs have been on fire in the last few days with talk of Google’s new project, Chrome OS. This is a Google version of the open-source project Chromium that aims to produce an operating system less dependent on local hardware and instead stores data in the “cloud”, or internet services. This has a number [...]

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The time has come for a new Macintosh operating system. Mac OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard as the cool kids call it, will arrive in stores this coming Friday and bring a host of new features with it. The name of the OS differs very little from 10.5, which was just Leopard, and that [...]

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Blog posts have been hard to come by in the last few weeks, mostly because I’ve been heavily involved in school. Since the year is done, I’m hoping to get more posts to the site, mostly from a few projects I’m hoping to work on. In case you’re interested in what courses are involved in [...]

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