• Archive for February, 2005

    You’re sinking to a new low

    by  • 2/22/2005 • life • 0 Comments

    I don’t like rich kids that revel in their stupidity and distance from the average person; prefering instead to buy $5000 pre-distressed jeans in the coolest stores in Hollywood while carting around their rat dog in their purse. I don’t make any secrets of disliking Paris Hilton and her peers; they’re putting out a very [...]

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    Geek nostalgia – what was your first address?

    by  • 2/21/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    Good Grief has a bit of a thread growing about what people remember as their first email address. While I don’t imagine that I have anyone beat, here’s my bit. Hmmm… I can only find a pair of my old addresses now – I know that there was another, earlier one from 1990 or so [...]

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    HST Silenced by the CIA!

    by  • 2/21/2005 • art, life • 0 Comments

    I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive…” I’m sure everyone has heard, but it has taken a bit of time to think of something to say… I read Ken’s piece and rather liked it. Too many damned impersonal “apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound” reports from CNN and the like, [...]

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    Playing with Feedster

    by  • 2/20/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    I’ve just signed up for a feedster.com account after seeing this place show up really high on a feedster search for “northern voice” – decided I should claim my feed and put in my own image, etc. No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster

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    Northern Voice redux

    by  • 2/19/2005 • geek, life, Vancouver • 2 Comments

    I opted not to cart my laptop along to UBC Robson for the Northern Voice day o’ stuff, so instead of making a ton of notes and blog postings during the speakers, I listened to what they were saying. I’m sure I missed out on some IRC backchannel discussions, but I’m not too worried. My [...]

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    Herding Cats

    by  • 2/19/2005 • life • 1 Comment

    It’s not 7:00am and I’m awake on a saturday. This isn’t normal. I only have tickets for one of the two events I’ll be (trying) to attend. I have no idea if there are spots available to get into the Northern Voice conference at the door, so I might be downtown at 8:30am and have [...]

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    Marqui — Round Two

    by  • 2/18/2005 • geek, meta---ging • 0 Comments

    In a piece in Online Journalism Review, Stephen King (I’m sorry, Stephen, but I think of Salem’s Lot every time I see your name…) alludes to the fact that some of the current stable of b—gers will be kept around for the next round. This begs the question about who stays and who goes. Will [...]

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    Apprentice spoilers, courtesy of Yahoo!

    by  • 2/17/2005 • geek • 1 Comment

    Okay, I caved and joined the “Fantasy Apprentice” game at Yahoo! a bit late, and was pleasantly surprised to see this screen when I went to the site to check my predictions against the show as it progressed. I didn’t expect that the page would give away the ending when I visited, though. MOST sites [...]

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    Bad words in this bl… website

    by  • 2/17/2005 • meta---ging • 0 Comments

    Okay, that’s it. No more mention of the word b— in this website. I’ve found that the Google Adsense ads along the side are loaded down with "B— for free" and "Dummies guide to B—ging" and other useless ads that don’t pay a cent. Those ads, when clicked on, tend to lead to business sites [...]

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