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Cats In Sinks

Cats In Sinks What more do you need?

Sleater-Kinney is coming back to Toronto

Too bad they are opening for Pearl Jam, and tickets are $60. But they are also playing the Ear to the Ground Festival the day before…

mmm, themes

So after a lot of digging around the net I found a nice, fluid design called Giraffe. Not only is the code purty nice to play with, but it comes with a plugin to manage some basic settings. Sweet! Now I just need to find a good randomizing plugin or write my own. You may […]

gotta hack this page design

So now I’ve got WordPress installed and it’s nice and all that, but the default theme is driving me bananas. Why? It has a static width. I hate static width webpages. It’s not that hard to use a design that scales gracefully from 800×600 all the way up to 2048×1536. So the first thing I’ll […]

shazam!

We be back… running WordPress.

busted device blues done got me down

There’s really no point in carrying my Newton around anymore. I haven’t opened it in weeks. I need to figure out where my sites are going to move to though, since I’m going to have to bring my server home by the end of September and I don’t just want those resources to go away. […]

About hardware, and avoiding “lock-in”

I’ve been asked and also been asking myself the same question, over and over again, over the recent weeks and months: Nintendo DS or Sony PSP? I’ve finally come to a decision, and it is: neither. This is the reason: I don’t like hardware of software that makes decisions for me. I don’t want to […]

How come every other continent gets the cool appliances first?

Yeah yeah, so some guy in California invented the Segway, I still haven’t seen one on the street yet. Big deal, what I want is a Dressman shirt iron by Siemens. It’s an auto-iron for shirts: you put a shirt on it, press a button, and it inflates to fill the shirt, and then irons […]

Entering The Woods

Finally got my copy of Sleater-Kinney’s new album, The Woods today. Whee!

Government finally realises that young drivers are being discrimiated against

CBC News: Nfld. bans insurance rates based on age, gender – Duh! If you’re under 25 and you own a car, you know why your insurance rates are so high: because insurance companies think you are “high-risk” because of your age. Doubly so if you are under 25 and male. Well Newfoundland finally got a […]