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Just got back from getting some (ironically enough) water in the break room upstairs and saw that they have a 274 page book on drinking water for sale (along some other interesting looking ones, including this one by the Dalai Lama. Almost three hundred pages to tell you all about how water is good for […]

So last night was another post-midnight bedtime (ie: a groan of despair when seeing that the little “AM” light was on on my clock when I hit the sack). However, I was proud of myself getting a fair amount done. Got my books updated, receipts organized, business bank account reconciled, bills paid (go online banking!),

So much for my idea of getting to bed at a decent hour last night. I was up till about 1am online with W ($boss of the ASP stuff I work on) and Dana doing some testing on a webpage. There were only 4-5 people (the fifth had some serious issues with her Telus connection)

Went out last night to Yohimbe and WebDiva’s place for dinner and to see the new extended edition of The Two Towers. Oh wow, what a great movie. I agree with $newboss that it’s 100x better than the theatrical release. The little bits added here and there (I think something like 40 minutes of new

Wow, today freaked me right out. Towards the end of the day I did a random run of UFies with chkrootkit, a program to check for rootkits, the Unix version of trojans or viruses (kinda, sorta, not really but a good enough explanation). To my horror I got back “5 processes hidden, possible LKM trojan”.

Finally, after much waiting, the alleged Powerbooks arrived today. I’m typing in mine as we speak. Much more has happened over the last while too, which I’ll update soon, but there is still work to be done before the end of the night. I had a great birthday as well. Went over to my parents

In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now

One of the things I did this weekend was to go to a Photography swap meet by Lougheed Mall with dad. It was pretty neat, hundreds of people and probably 50 tables with photo stuff. Everything from ancient (and horribly expensive) Leica‘s to relatively new Pentax MZ-5 and MZ-6. Along with that were the microscopes,

Firefly is on a plane to come home, and I’m heading out in about 10 minutes to pick her up. Is everything done that should be done? Laundry laundered? Yup. Laundry slept on by cats? Yup. Dishes washed and put away? Yup. Litterbox cleaned? Yup. Floor swept and cleaned? Yup. Garbage taken out? Yup. Bills

Derek’s experiences with stupid customer support reminded me of a similar but more analog experience of mine several years ago trying to find a motel in california. We were on a climbing trip to Yosemite and after about 12 hours of travel from Vancouver we arrived in northern calfornia. We saw a motel 8 (or