A few reasons why this is one hell of a music video:Decent tune. It's in the current not-totally-mainstreamed-to-death-yet bracket. Barely.DIY. Cheap home camera, on a tripod or picnic table. Looks like iMovie for post prod, what post prod there was...Real....
June 2005 Archives
Contact form snafu
I just realized my contact form was busted. I received three blanks from it recently and just now decided to investigate - and fix. Please, if you've tried contacting me via it in the last 2 weeks, give it one...
Well said.
Andrew continues to make me cheer with his canadian political commentary. His take on bill C-38, "C-38 is a uniter, not a divider", is well worth a read. (Bill C-38 is same-sex marriage legislation that just got passed in Canada.)...
Been busy much?
I rarely talk about work here - and I will soon have a place to do only that - but I figure I should mention some of what's been keeping me busy lately. Summer started with a bang really. On...
Fly, fly away
I retreated from the extreme heat here today to the little air conditioned café down the street. Sitting on the table I installed myself at was today's Globe & Mail. At the bottom of the front page (hah! I almost...
Public WiFi snoops
You can always tell the person running the network sniffer at public WiFi hotspots; the maniacal grin as he scans the room observing all the surfers one by one wondering "who was looking at *this*?"... "I read your email"......
Test two
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } -->NSFW ;) 007, originally uploaded by gzcjun. Steven: how come you're not in the pics?...
Mural
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Strange Mural, originally uploaded by steveyb. Testing for Aaron... he asked me "can you post...
Money, death and the French
The word "mortgage", which is french, translates directly to "death bet": when the bank gives someone a mortgage, they are essentially gambling on the hopes that the poor sod will pay them back before he dies. In french however, a...
Del.icio.us hash
A month ago, joshua mentioned an easy breezy little addition one can do to one's site to allow users to easily del.icio.us bookmark entries on one's weblog. In some cases though, you might like an easy way to see how...
Day of tech failures...
I awoke to find that my main email server was not responding. It still isn't, 15 hours later. Best guestimate is that Bell Nexxia will fix the line "sometime in the next 24 to 72 hours." Wonderful. As if that...
Just a thought
(to be expanded on) Is it not entirely possible that we are rapidly approaching the point in time where we will no longer have the resources and/or organizational stability to save ourselves from our then inevitable extinction? In other words,...
Pour être bien précis
Je ne vous propose pas de partir en affaires avec moi, mais bien que nous allions nos forces de sorte de nous procurer les moyens de vivre confortablement à notre gré, en faisant non seulement ce que nous connaissons et...
Now they've done it
del.icio.us adds filetype tags automatically to media files. I could go into boring things like implicit metadata, the coupling of a flat tag pool with a flat:hierarchical:organization... but really, there are more fun things that come out of this. Like,...
Sticky
Mainly because this is teh funniest promo copy I have ever seen for a bar night... Kudos Murad. PEEL YOURSELF OFF THAT LEATHER COUCH. PUT ON SOME DRY UNDERPANTS. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE CITY COULDN'T GET ANY HOTTER!!! SLOWDANCE...
UNESCO slaps U.S. & WTO's wrist, fighting to preserve cultural exception
This is a few days old, but I didn't see it anywhere else. (Found in Sylvain's del.icio.us stream) French article and it's Google MangleTranslation. I'll try to un-mangle the more salient parts: After two weeks of negotiations, involving 500 experts...
It's damn hot
So Karl and I moved from the sweatlodge-like Laika to the air conditioned Java-U on St-Denis where Oblivia was. Logging into the free wifi network I spot something familiar in the URL. "Helloooo... what's this..." I made this! A long...
Parking meter hack challenge
Steven launches a challenge to local hackers and their friends: Hack the new Linux-running, GPRS-networked parking meters. Why? 1- Show that it can be done 2- Perhaps help improve the system 3- Perhaps send a message up: "hey, we KNOW...
Eyes??
Hah, I just noticed the theme in my last two posts. What a totally unconscious coincidence......
I want more Cornelius in my day
Suddenly realized I hadn't heard any new music from Cornelius in a while, so I popped over to his site. Poking around, I found this little film he did the music for. Sugoi. So... New album? Joi, can you ask?...
Linux + GPRS in parking meters
Steven gives us the lowdown on the fancy-pantsy new high-tech networked evil machi... er I mean parking meters in Montreal....
Where does the night go?
You know how some afternoons just zip by? One minute you just finished lunch and the next it's 4:30... Some nights are like that too. Just a few moments ago I was walking up St-Laurent amid the Thursday night partiers...
Fin
Nous avons eu raison. Quand nous avons dit en début de mars que "les weblogs, c'est fini". Avec un surplus d'attention et de nourissement, l'accroissement rapide et massif eu totallement et complètement transformé l'organisme qu'était le weblog, ainsi que l'environment...
Shall wonders never cease?
Two words, people: transparent duct tape. Ok, ok, that's three words......
Torrential ninjas
Two days ago, I had this ninja movie, Red Shadow, coming in on BitTorrent at, like, 450k/s ... it was sooooo sweet... I was really pumped. Then at 64% the only seeder disconnected. I thought I was totally gonna flip...
It is done
"transition isn't going to be overnight, this time next year plan is to ship Macs with intel processors, complete transition by end of 2006." Every release of OS has been compiled for intel x86 for the last 5 years -...
Just don't call it Brussel sprouts!
"Economic democracy" is a powerful concept in all kinds of ways both in its ambiguity as well as its linkages. There's a lot that goes with it practically and theoretically--and it should become a very familiar concept to the broader...
Summer finally pulled up
After two truly miserable weeks that finished off May, and a generally unpleasant spring, summer finally showed up today. Warm, sunny, pleasantly perfumed breeze... green grass and leaves... So I went for my run, only my second this season,...
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