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- "Hello again!" say I. I'd met her the previous evening sitting with a friend of mine in the self same bistro where we now were. - "Hi! Can you watch my stuff while I get something to eat? I'm...

Eigenradio - The top 20 singular values all day, every day! Eigenradio makes its optimal music by analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to...

Joho the Blog: Self-Referential Blogging David Weinberger says:I think it'd be more accurate to say that blogs are conversational. For a little while I agreed, and for a little while it was true. It still is a little true, but...

I very rarely go to live shows, especially these big outdoor production things. However tonight I will be going to see Björk. I need to know something though: it says specifically on the ticket that cameras etc are not allowed....

Ok... I *think* I *may* want one of these SCOTTeVEST things. I hate carrying a bag around and since nobody has made an acceptable cellphone/PDA/digicam/MP3Player yet, I find myself lugging all this crap around or worse: leaving it at home....

Enable setlocale and strftime PHP functions on your MacOS X.2 Does exactly as it says. Merci SÈbastien....

history flowvisualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors Aside from being quite beautiful, I find these rather fascinating. Context derived from patterns are central to how I think. Perhaps how we think? Hmm. More food...

Taped at the BBCCan the Beeb put its entire archive on the Web?By Paul BoutinFor those of us still debating whether to shell out the 40-odd bucks for Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection on DVD, BBC Director-General Greg Dyke may...

The Montreal World Film Festival will be held from August 27 to September 7, 2003. The schedule system on their website was done my a monkey on crack. I had to first run a search by country in one browser...

Don Hong-OaiWorking with the style and themes of traditional Chinese painting and photography, Don Hong-Oai blends multiple negatives to create these timeless, poetic images of the landscape. Hong-Oai's calligraphy accentuates each image in the manner of Chinese painting....

Roots Manuva - Witness The above song has really little to do with this entry, except for the first line of the chorus. Oh and aside from the fact it is an awesome track. I'm at 155lbs now. Considering that's...

Slowy getting to blogging more bits of last week's Toronto trip (I know I know, a week + later.. what can I say...). As I said, I hooked up with Joey a.k.a Accordion Guy. Here's a small video montage of...

I just stopped by Euro Deli on St-Laurent for an after dinner allongé & dessert canolli. I had my iBook out (yeah I got one...), writing up a blog entry about the jaunt to Toronto this past weekend, when an...

I really wanted to get home. I set my cruise control at 150km/h and cruised. Bloody Ontario drivers who never learnt that 1- the left lane is for passing and 2- when the guy behind you is coming at...

Four and a half hours down the 401 and I'm in Toronto. I race up Yonge, twist around Dundas Square and park half way up to College, pararllel on Baldwin, behind the Deconism Gallery. Ken has already sensed my...

Joi Ito's Web: Email is officially broken Well, here's my take. E-mail is modeled on postal mail. Anyone can send you something as long as they have (or guess) your address. Both afford us much spam/junk mail. I get 200...

brandchannel.com | Brand Management | Brand Communities "... brand communities exhibit three traditional markers of community: shared consciousness, rituals and traditions, and a sense of moral responsibility..." So where does that leave a company that longs for its own brand...

brandchannel.com | IKEA Brand | Furniture Retailers Ingvar Kamprad founded the company in Sweden in 1943. He named his fledgling business by using his initials and tacking on the first letters in Elmtaryd and Agunnaryd, the farm and village where...

Elite Force Aviator:George W. BushU.S. President and Naval Aviator12" Action Figure at KBtoys.com Or is it more like: Elite Republican Army: U.S. Dictator and Warmongering Chickenhawk - 12" Action FigurePre-order:†Available 09/11/03Usually ships 1-3 business days after sobering up.DescriptionBBI proudly introduces...

I've dreamt about this day. I've dreamt about this IRC conversation and the phone-call it sparked. I've dreamt about every minute before it and every minute after it. I've dreamt about the euphoria and anxious anticipation caused by the words...

"Jetzt wird's haglich" my mother would say. "Now it's getting down to the wire" would be an approximation of the sentiment expressed. I absolutely must get a notebook computer a.s.a.p. Bouncing between the G4 at work and the one...

Yo no naka tadashii koto bakari de wa arimasen. O-ki wo tsukete. "In the world there are more than just good things. Take care"...

Joi posted a really interesting thought today. (The juicy part is after the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" quote.) The point I sense he's trying to make has to do with how social software (to be specific, web- and cellphone-based...

I went through a stack of old CD backups of mine. This picture is me circa the age of, ohhh, five maybe? Four? I had totally white hair. Really. I also found the "family christmas web card" I did...

Oh joy! The one silly little thing that was keeping me from using Safari full time as my personal browser was the fact that Safari didn't like something in MT's bookmarklet javascript. This evening I spent all of 45 seconds...