For work there is a big ass conference of some sort, being held in Whistler. The last few weeks The Conference (always spoken in capital letters) has been the topic, with everyone “getting ready for The Conference”, though I’m not sure exactly what that’s involved. Mostly I’ve been oblivious, coding away in my own little […]
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Seeing as this is about the only place people can check regarding Ufies.org, here’s whats going on (regarding it’s lack of existance right now): Something to do with Telus, and my ISPs connection to them. It started going flakey around 2am, and died completely around 3am. They have been notified, and I presume it’s being
Found in the fark thread about Johnny Cash’s passing was this page of quotes about him. My favorite: […] Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash. — Bono
Engel was the one who first broke the news to me that Johnny Cash died today at 71. A very sad day. I remember listening to a greatest hits tape of his when I was 11 or 12 or so while working on plastic airplane models in the basement, after getting it for christmas or
Thanks Johnny, and Goodbye Read Post »
Looks like Sgt. Sean of the US army and author of turningtables, a great blog written live from Iraq, is
Sean Heading Home From Iraq Read Post »
My good buddy Engel, though he may be on the other side of the continent right now, is having a birthday today. My best wishes for the best day my friend. Happy Birthday! Having your wife come home the day before (or day before the day before) your birthday must be one of those scary
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An interesting article on The Register about the flood of “we funded this study but that doesn’t matter because it proves windows is better than linux” that Microsoft has sent out lately. Taken with the grain of salt that Register articles must always be taken with, they have a point. There was some discussion a
Shrinks Calling Microsoft Read Post »
After work I hit the gym. 45 min on the treadmill at 6.3mph, a couple of sets of biceps and triceps (but not too much) and then home, as there is a bit of paperwork to do. I pulled into my parking spot as usual, grabbed my slightly sweaty smelling gym bag from the trunk
Do people really fall for this shit? Just for a lark I loaded up a link from spam that got through my spam filter. The subject was funny as well, holy pretend-techspeak: “ISP Alert – Ticket ID: 1638505610 – Type(t)“. Sounds pretty fucking important huh? If they could have made the subject line a different
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Jeremy’s woes are the reason that I didn’t mind the $50 “assembly” fee when I ordered my new computers today. Of course, I didn’t include buying an OS, so not all hassles are going to be eliminated. But neither of them will run (sadly) Linux, so it’ll be just the assembly hassles that I’m eliminating.
New Hardware Tales of Woe Read Post »