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Surprise, surprise! Another kitten post, after I actually got to see it a bit today in real sunlight…. normally I get home late enough that it’s already dark, and I have to change the white balance on all my pictures from the beautiful yellow color that is produced by my lights. I did get a […]

Today Enemy Territory: Quake Wars was released, and I was meeting an old buddy from high school after work in Gastown, so I figured I?d pick it up. I have been playing on the beta test, and then the public beta, and enjoying it quite a bit, so I figured that I?d support iD and

Couple of quick things…. Some funky story lines… there seem to be about 30 simultaneous storylines. Well, maybe not that many, but way more (I think) than season 1. They have the potential to try to do too much with all the characters at once. Inconsistencies with Hiro’s abilities. He is stuck in the past,

Just for fun, a couple of poems written in the throws of tech support hell around 1997. The Lusers My Life The lusers, my life their questions so dumb. Their babbling I’d stop, if I only had a gun. My work is so sad, and never gets done. I live in a dungeon, and never

… and her name is iPhone. After two days I’m still pretty jazzed about my new iPod Nano, and was showing it’s tininess and sexy screen to a couple of guys as I was heading out of the office. After a couple of minutes a guy wanders over and says “I couldn’t help overhearing you

I saw over the weekend that Canadian Tire has the Roomba Discovery (link to CT page on for $100 off of it’s regular price of $399, putting it at $299. Is that a good price (Canadian) for a Roomba? It doesn’t look like this model is around anymore, and is now eclipsed by the Roomba

Just read the PCMag iPod Touch review and am really wondering if I should just plop down the credit card at the Apple Store. There is no current ETA for the iPod Touch to appear in Canada, and the official ETA for the states is another two weeks… and and this way I’d be able

Finally decided to upgrade the ‘ol blog to the latest and greatest and broke all my templates. Grr…. I’ll fix it up tomorrow morning. I wish that Movable Type had a “bring in all default templates for this version” option. I can use the ‘refresh templates’ button, but that only works if you have something

I must say I’m impressed with what you can get for how much these days. Work was kind enough to get me a new system to use to replace the p3-800ish system I was using. It’s not so much about the system as it’s “my” computer, I don’t have to worry about messing up someone

Wow, kudos on this page of National Geographic pics. Amazing! Update: Page has been pulled 🙁