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We be back… running WordPress.

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 the thing automatically. I think I would – no wait, I would kill for one!

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 clue and realized that insurance companies shouldn’t be doing this!

Season four of 24 in a nutshell – wow, Wesley gets all pissed off about 24, thus turning me off from ever picking it up. At least I still have Alias to escape with, which is FINALLY turning this craphole of a season around! ABC was all like “Yeah, best season EVAR!” but of course it was just marketing bravado. Dear writers: glad you finally got a clue that people just want to know about RAMBALDI, and want to see Sloane tortured by Jack over and over again. Well, that’s my dream at least.

The Who – I’m Free

I’M FREE-I’m free, And freedom tastes of reality, I’m free-I’m free, AN’ I’m waiting for you to follow me.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high, You’d laugh and say ‘nothing’s that simple’ But you’ve been told many times before Messiahs pointed to the door And no one had the guts to leave the temple!

I’m free-I’m free And freedom tastes of reality I’m free-I’m free And I’m waiting for you to follow me.

Lloyd Axworthy tells Condoleezza Rice what we’re really thinking – Axworthy was a great foreign minister IMHO. This is a great read.

Our basement is painted! It “just” needs a ceiling and carpet now. Might be a while before those are done though.

I made a really good lasagna yesterday. It was just… tasty. I wish I had made two but we ran out of noodles.

I’ve been writing quite a lot of JavaScript lately, not a language which I’ve really ‘learned’ but it’s not hard to pick up. I keep forgetting somethings though, like when I do a replace, it RETURNS the new string instead of modifying it in place, as I’d expect since it’s a method of the object. It just took me way to long to remember that.

Also, lots of XML and XSLT. XSLT has syntax that frankly makes my brain hurt, but I’ve actually got a working XSLT and it’s transforming XML into HTML. Within the browser. Well, FireFox at least. But it’s pretty cool.

Sandy’s started her two week block placement yesterday. Two weeks of not having to go to spirit-crushing university are a good thing.

I’m still sick of winter, usually I’m not, but when I get home there will be a foot of snow on my driveway…

CBC News: Federal ‘feebate’ could pinch SUV buyers – good. Screw SUVs.

And the people in this article who are against this fee are all like “people won’t be able to take their kids to hockey games or pull their camper”. Jesus. I can fit a hockey bag in a Pontiac Vibe just as well as I can put it into a Ford Explorer. Except one uses half the fuel. And you know, if you can afford your own camper trailer, then you can probably afford the fee for your gas-guzzing SUV. If you can’t, it’s probably cheaper in the long run to buy a small car and then rent a bigger vehicle occasionally when you need one.

Car dealers won’t like this because SUVs are hot sellers and they make huge margins on them. For christ sakes people, PROFIT IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD.

MSN is down. 10 minutes ago I couldn’t even see this message on their site.