There’s something about generating invoices that I just don’t like. Sure, it’s nice to see nearly $3000 worth of invoices go out, but it’s such a boring job; verifying dates, checking schedules, blah blah blah. It’s not like it’s something I’m really equiped to offload on anyone else, as I’d have to provide the data [...]
Read more →I’ve been toying with greasemonkey to make other peoples’ web pages do what I want them to rather than merely behave as the (obviously retarded) web site designer thought they should. This is the first time I’ve worked with XPath, which surprises me a bit; I’m not entirely sure how I avoided it. There are [...]
Read more →There’s something very odd about finding out that the high school you attended has been changed completely. I attended a relatively small high school in central Alberta; it was the Catholic high school in Red Deer, and I was in a graduating class of approximately 100 people if memory serves. In my final year, or [...]
Read more →CNN brings word of another shining example of US Homeland Security’s problems. I’m not saying we’re perfect in Canada, but you’d think that a nation that has turned itself into an armed fortress against evil doers everywhere could actually manage to detain someone at the border who has a bloody chainsaw and blood-soaked clothes. I [...]
Read more →I saw this headline; ‘Citigroup Data Lost by UPS’; at eWeek and thought How in the world does your server’s UPS (uninterruptible power supply) cause data loss unless the explosion of its batteries failing takes out all the backups… NEW YORK (Reuters)—Citigroup Inc., the world’s largest bank, on Monday said account and payment history data [...]
Read more →Sounds like it was pretty major, but happened in relatively good surroundings; friends and a doctor were there, and they got him the help he needed immediately. In true Smugglers’ fashion, the press release on their web site. The emphasis below is mine… 06/04/05 — Beez Suffers Heart Attack! Hello World Of Friends!! We have [...]
Read more →I was hunting for a quote I vaguely recalled, so that I could cite it, and instead found the most amazing thing… notes on how to cast out demons, and specifically the demon that causes Christians to smoke tobacco. Who knew? From CASTING OUT DEMON TOBAC, TO STOP TOBACCO USE, the good Rev. has placed [...]
Read more →Every so often, I check where I stand in the WWWTF with the help of my Technorati Cosmos and I find a link from the Scoblink B–g pointing at the HP / Microsoft unleashing a national identity system. The word ‘unleash’ was eWeek’s choice, and I thought it was amusing, as I’ve never really seen [...]
Read more →I was skipping through commercials on some show or another and caught a couple seconds of a song on an Audi commercial; one, two, three. go. backwards forwards a to z you look for your future in a cup of tea you made a connection and you seem alive but you still can’t seem to [...]
Read more →One of the local free weekly papers; The Terminal City Weekly; decided to put together comething of a mini film festival focusing on Vancouver’s music scene. They kept it pretty short, but did put out a pretty decent program, which I’m quoting from pretty heavily below; if it’s in a quoted block it’s from the [...]
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