Archive for April, 2003

Inflatable Church for a “mobile” wedding. I’d only call it “mobile” if it was attached to a semi trailer, but hey, that’s just me.

As you may or may not have heard, I’m moving to a new apartment this coming Thursday. Since a number of Newton sites are run by me, I though I’d give everyone here a heads-up of what sites may be down for an extended period of time. I do have a new 3Meg DSL connection […]

no… no more packing… must stop… boxes… cats… aaagh!

How can so much stuff be packed and yet so much stuff is still around? Will moving be awful, hellish hell or will our volunteer packers come through and not die of exhaustion? Tune in on Thursday… The Home Show sucks ass. Oh, and here is the BIG SECRET: all of the prices on the […]

CDO follies continue…

…and because of this, my application still doesn’t work. I want to know who wrote this library, I want to know their address, and I want a plane ticket to the closest city. And a baseball bat. Grrrrrrrrrr. (addenum: and as I find the open SMTP server on the internal net, I want to cry […]

All shall rejoice, for I have discovered how to login to an Exchange mailbox using CDO 1.21 via Perl/Win32 using a temporary profile! Not that anyone is going to understand what that means…

tiny good things

So I lost my security pass for work two days ago. I went to the building management office yesterday to order a new one, it costs $25. In the meantime I’ve been signing myself in at the front desk. So I go this morning to pick up my replacement pass, $25 in hand. But wait! […]

Since John was having some disconnected random moments yesterday, I realized that I had one this morning. On my daily walk from the train station to work, I walked by the woman who I had sold Sandy’s old discman to a few weeks ago. And she was listening to it. Good to see good hardware […]

10 days until moving day

can’t wait. can’t wait. so much stuff in boxes… so much stuff that still has to be put into boxes… Sandy has been bouncing around the idea of getting a laptop again. Previously, she used an old Toshiba Satellite Pro brick before giving it back to her dad. Now she’s thinking about something that will […]

everything’s coming up Milhouse!

Hey! My cell phone came back from repairs today – and they replaced it with a new one! Sweet.

environment canada is smoking crack.

uhm… apparently the high temp for Toronto today will be 21 Celcius… and Tuesday will be 27 celcius. 27! Last week it was freezing and ice storming! WTF! Amazing: Honda Accord ad. This is not done with computer graphics.