A Rickin’ good time
On Friday evening we attended a taping of Rick Mercer Report down at CBC Television in downtown Toronto. It was a blast and an interesting experience. I’d never been in a real television studio before, so I was interested to go just to see what the inside of the building looked like. Both of us […]
I’m a listener, I’m no threat
NO THREAT::Lyrics Got a window-washer’s head for an unmakeable bed for loneliness the past is no place to rest your weary arms ‘cept at sevens at yer sides your face a campaign debt, reflected sky you die to your fans one window at at a time – that’s right! gotta a window-washer’s eye for an […]
The garbage that is the ticketmaster system
From: chuma@chuma.org To: CSEast@ticketmaster.ca, sales@ticketmaster.ca, info@coldplay.com Subject: The garbage that is the ticketmaster system When I sit on the toilet in the morning, I crap out better web systems than your pathetic piece of garbage which I have been suffering through as a member of the ticket buying public for years now. I’m talking about […]
What giving $300 to Microsoft gets you, more or less
The Xbox 360 motherboard in all its glory. Click image for full-size version. From AnandTech.
Steven F’s phonecam photos are great.
StevenF’s mobile phone pics never fail to amuse. Here’s two of the most recent hilarious ones:
I can’t believe that was the solution!
My missing / corrupted master boot record (MBR) issues continued after my last post. After a lot of tinkering and troubleshooting I think I finally found the culprit: a bad IDE cable. I replaced it with a new-in-bag one I had, and no problems as of yet.
Newton pages are busted
I moved this site off of my crappy home DSL link and back onto a real webserver. Thanks Bill. A lot of pages are broken though, pretty much anything old that used server-side includes. Actually, lots of things are busted, because I no longer have mod_rewrite at my disposal. Feed URLs have changed as well […]
Recovering data by the skin of my teeth
Something happened while I was poking and prodding around inside my computer last night. My boot drive’s boot sector and partition table got b0rked. I finally traced it down to the bloody removable drive bay I was trying to install, it must have been doing something to the IDE signaling which was totally screwing up […]
Jerky jerks who drive jerking cars
You might remember that I think people who drive less than 2km to the GO station are stupid. I encountered a prime example of this behaviour this morning. About 10 houses up the street from me, and along my daily walking route, lives a husband and wife who leave for work every morning in separate […]
Protected: Slow it down, way down
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