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to Chinatown for a Pho. Decided to take the camera along and play with some long exposure shots (something I have wanted to do... pretty much all my life...) Some very nice results. This narcissistic one being just the...

Hoping one of you can help me out with this... Say I wanted to have a list of the 10 most frequent commenters on this weblog, sorted by number of comments each has left, and selected by the commenter's email...

"When things line up" - Boris Anthony Pixels on pixels, Computer screenshot Oct.2004 $5500.00 ;)...

I don't wanna have to shout it out I don't want my hair to fall out I don't wanna be filled with doubt I don't wanna be a good boy scout I don't wanna have to learn to count I...

The Prairies, looking west, MB, 1858 Humphrey Lloyd Hime 1858, 19th century Mono no aware - Áâ©„ÅÆÂìÄ„Çå "Je l'ai toujours sur moi", avait-il dit non sans quelque g√™ne, comme s'il était puéril de garder constamment près de soi ce...

Continuing on my current theme of "data management", let me share with you an example from my own experience. I mentioned a few weeks back how overwhelmed I was by the size of my MP3 collection. McLuhanists, and others surely,...

"Madame Hollywood" Felix Da Housecat Everybody wants to be hollywood The fame, the vanity, the glitz, the stories One day I'll become a great big star You know like the big dipper And maybe one day you can visit my...

Out of over 200 Gigs of data (not counting OS and application files), I would be hard pressed to find a single file that is not in one way or another associated to someone other than me. (Someone may represent...

I want tags on everything. I want everything to be a tag. Or I could say, I want everything to be tag-able and want everything to be able to BE a tag. Any document, picture, file, bit of data... I...

Ce que j'aurais dû dire. "Pardon, mais vous pourriez vous taire s'il vous plaît? "Qu-quoi?!" "Oui, s.v.p. fermez la. Non seulement polluez-vous l'air public de ce restaurant Dim-Sum avec votre voix fade et nasale, et vos aires de mélodrame, mais...

- Do I bring my own chains? - We always do... I ‚ô• Huckabees‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ‚òÖ...

Because, while I can respect it, Aaron's quiet, "I'll be over here" demeanor drives me batty sometimes, I am going to take license and point out his freshly published résumé. While I'd love to expound on how he's actually publishing...

email has been much on my mind again lately. The fact that no email reader (client, MUA, etc) does things the way I'd like is frustrating, and many powerusers I have spoken to agree... This evening I hooked up with...

So I was thinking about how I could be notified of the continuation of weblog comments threads I'd participated in. I thought "hey, I have a URL...

Eat more yogurt.

i want to redo my cityscape panoramics, get a 360° of the city from the empire state Me: "hey, you!... St: Wear a big puffy jacket with your arms inside, and run in circles yelling "ALAHUU ACKBAR!!!!"

I don't particularily care but thought I'd scoop this little item I found on a french gadget website out of Tokyo: Akihabara News : toutes les nouveautés High-Tech du pays des Sushis: Alors l√†, ils m'ont entendu ... la VACHE Olympus nous sort des produits de fou avec un design de feu, commen√ßons par le : MR-500i Qui n'est pas moins qu'un APN/iPOD/PMP de 20 Go avec un écran VGA de 3.7" et un APN de 1.2Mpix ...

The months go by as days.The days, are as long as weeks.The nights...the nights they are neverending.

This photo caused me much trouble today.My Powerbook has had a fever for about a week.

have been mightily busy![Apologies to anyone offended by that term...]Aaron finally fixed his "I-roll-my-own-thank-you-very-much" weblog and immediately posted about some of the wikkedly neat stuff he's been toying with over the summer.

Mark Federman at the McLuhan Program (UofT) JUST posted about the McLuhan Festival that started yesterday... Either I was asleep or someone should have mentioned this earlier... Mark... ;) It's on for a week so, um... if I can bloody...

To see what we're talking about, try typing a comment on this entry...[Merci Karl!]

Here I am in my box.My box contains many smaller boxes.These smaller boxes contain memories of me, waiting to be forgotten.Here I am in my box, a memory of me waiting to be remembered.

I don't care who barry is, this is RIGHT ON the money.

As Joi links to me from his entry on Chris Johnson's Wired article "The Long tail", I figure I should riff a bit on what I see in all this and why I reminded him of Momus' excellent "Pop Stars, nein danke!" article.

I am in rant mode.I have 3 weblog entries sitting here in draft status (in ecto, ahem) and they are all meaningless, pointless rants, of no interest even to me.I am treading water in a wading pool. Ridiculous.

Parole for Mark David Chapman?: Cory Doctorow:Mark David Chapman, the loony who shot John Lennon in 1980, is up for parole.An online petition calling for Chapman to remain in prison for the rest of his natural life has been signed by nearly 2,000 fans - and includes angry threats to Chapman's life should he be freed.Link Somehow...... Even where his own life is concerned.