Finally, this week the weather is starting to break into the double-digits, and it’s finally looking like spring in Toronto. Birds are singing and flocking to our backyard feeders, the ground is starting to defrost and soon I’ll be planting the vegetable garden.
Spring also means spring cleaning. The car got a thorough cleaning over the weekend. I love cleaning the car.
This morning I HATE WORDPRESSWhy do they make WordPress so hard to upgrade AGH. I hadn’t had enough coffee this morning and ended up screwing up my WordPress install. FUDGE. Now I have a handful of plugins to reinstall, have to re-customize my theme, bloody hell!
Graphic HuntingI’m looking for a cool image to put on the front of my new notebook at work. I thought about a map of something cool, then thought about those Moscow Metro panoramas, but right next to it was a link to posters from the US Work Projects Administration from the late 30s – early 40s. There are some really cool designs in here, right now I’m looking at this and this. This guy is very happy to sell you a low-rent home! Don’t forget to keep mum, the world has ears.
How could I ever forget about eBoy though! Totally crazy awesome pixel perspective images. Mmm. I Heart Pixels
CBC is horriible busted today…None of the links from the CBC RSS feeds are working today… but, if you delete the ‘?ref=rss’ from the end of the URL, it works.
Also, I tried to leave them a note about this, but all I get back is:
An error occurred while processing your request.
Reference #102.286fed8.1141677048.1c993
Seriously, folks, can you get this fixed? It’s been literally ALL DAY.
Caveat Emptor!This post on the Newtontalk mailing list written by Richard S. Sternberg is an excellent summary of consumer protection recourse, including a good description of the BBB and what they do. Jon, you might be interested in this…
Of course, in Ontario we have some of the better consumer protection laws in North America.
Pepper Pad beats Nokia 770 in review at Mobile Tech ReviewMobile Tech Review has posted a very very nice review of the Pepper Pad. They give it 4 stars out of five, while the lackluster Nokia 770 gets 3.5 stars.
