crap.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Serbia bloc folds after key role – c’mon, guys, you really don’t want to elect another insane right-wing nationalist government again. Remember the last time? Civil war happened? Civil war bad.
Fast Company | The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know – Amazingly scary and very well-written article about how Wal-Mart is so big that they reshape every single supplier they deal with – or else.
Once Wal-Mart Canada starts selling groceries, we’re screwed.
Lately, I’ve actually begun speaking in domain names, or if Sandy says “Boy, does that suck!” I’ll follow up with “dot-com!” to get a laugh. Of course, any woman who laughs at a joke like that is a keeper.
Jon asked if I’d be putting up a public interface to my DVD UPC data, and you’ll find it on the menubar on the left. Just enter a full or partial title.
List of all my DVDs
My DVD List – List Titles I Own – finally, I have easily made a database of all of the DVDs that I own.
I did this by:
- “Borrowing” a huge list of DVD titles, UPCs, etc from a website with a less-than-secure CGI script (no, I’m not telling where)
- Cross-referencing that data with a local copy of IMDB
- Dumping the data into a MySQL database
- Writing a quick and dirty interface using PHP
- Using my serial barcode wand, scanned the barcodes on all of my DVDs – if the codes were found then it marked the entries that I have. If the code wasn’t found, then I had to enter them in manually – mostly these were Canadian-specific releases from Alliance Atlantis. For box sets that didn’t have barcodes on them anymore, I found them in the database, printed off their barcodes and taped them on.
Yes, I’m a total nerd. But now I know exactly what I do and don’t own!
sick sucks.
I don’t like being sick. I especially don’t like being sick when I have to miss work. I don’t link missing work. I like work. Anyways, I’ve had this cold-like thing since last weekend. I made it through work on Monday and Tuesday but had to cut Wednesday short, since I was in a daze-like state. Thursday was right out. I thought for sure I had strep. Friday was better. Today my throat isn’t sore, I’m just kinda dazed again. I hope this means that it’s going away.
I did get a poppy the other day at the mall. Why aren’t there any people selling them on the TTC?
And yes, those pig ads are for Telus camera phones. Once I realized this it ceased to be interesting for me.
poppies.
A week until Rememberance Day and I don’t have my poppy yet. Gotta get on that.
