Found this amusing story at eWeek today, about how HP and Microsoft were unleashing a new system to help governments track their citizens. Now, I’m one of those people who tend to believe that if you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about, but I’m a little twitchy over Microsoft being involved [...]
Read more →I have had one of the most relaxing mornings in recent memory just now. I was laying there, verging on sleep the whole time, and I’d go so far as to say I was comfortable and at peace; except this wasn’t a spa day, or a massage, or anything that should be relaxing. I was [...]
Read more →I’m working on getting a Nardwuar Podcast going still… in the mean time, I’ve added a very simple little modification to the Nardnest! (Nardwuar’s phpBB forums) in the way of an RSS feed… So, for anyone who’s interested in what’s new in the world of Nardwuar, you can subscribe to the Nardnest! in your feed [...]
Read more →I stopped in at 7-11 to get a Slurpee today. I wasn’t thrilled by the flavour selection, so I hit the coolers to pick up a Diet Coke. Wait a minute, why do they have two full shelves of Mountain Dew? And DIET Mountain Dew? This must be some crazy hallucination caused by cold medication. [...]
Read more →I spent part of last weekend as a warm body at Nardwuar’s video shoot for Half Empty Halls. He asked me if I’d like to come down and be part of the shoot, and I figured what the heck? I could take some photos, and volunteer Tom to be a monkey in the shoot. I [...]
Read more →Yay! Stupid LJ Drama! I’ve been de-friended by someone who we’ll call over something I said, and I’m surprised it was she who broke first. Basically, I’ve known this person online for 6-8 years on and off, and I know she’s disagreeable at times, and unapologetic. I don’t tend to agree with her, but I [...]
Read more →I don’t get a whole bunch of crazy comments, but this one’s a nice one… Check out comment number one on this boring post that I made about silly tech support issues…
Read more →Today I put in about an hour worth of work into making my MythTV box control my cable box. The box has a ton of connections on the back; USB, serial, etc, but I have no idea if the ports are alive or crippled by my cable provider. A couple days ago, I received an [...]
Read more →For some reason btefnet.net isn’t pulling anything up other than a godaddy.com generic “Coming Soon!” web page…. How am I going to download TV shows that I can’t otherwise see? Am I going to have to start recording Dr. Who a full week after it airs in the UK? What will Penn & Teller feature [...]
Read more →I’ve been getting a number of hits on an entry I made in 2003 regarding a rather bizarre commercial for Mentos that involved a bunch of evil-bastard sheep mowing down a dog, and how I’d finally managed to track down the band that performed the rather bizarre song that ran along with the commercial. So, [...]
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