I just noticed a couple books show up for sale on Craigslist’s for sale section.. Palm Programming: The Developer’s Guide by Neil Rhodes – $35 (Fraser + 22nd) pic ADSI ASP Programmer’s Reference By Steven Hahn – $40 (Fraser + 22nd) pic Nothing wrong with this on the surface, but it starts to stink when [...]
Read more →Okay, there is no part one here on foo.ca, but a month ago when the first contact happened, there was really nothing to say of any importance; even at this point there’s nothing much that can be said. Not because there is anything secret happening, but simply because it’s pretty typical job interview stuff. I [...]
Read more →To the unionized tech support drones at Telus; You’ve been promising me that I’d have internet for the past ten days; each time claiming that you’d escalated the call to network support and that they’d have me up and running soon – maybe even tonight. The promises come easy to these guys it would seem, [...]
Read more →It’s a bit sad that a foreigner from the UK sees what so many here in Canada don’t… Doesn’t Stephen Harper look like the kind of actor a US or US-but-produced-in-Canada TV show uses as the bad guy when they can’t afford a British actor? (Which, when David Warner is still working, is kind of [...]
Read more →Telus is taking its sweet time getting my internet moved over to the new place, and so I’ll be without Internet access in the house until sometime Monday. Turns out that that’s not such a big deal, as Gastown is absolutely lousy with wireless access points. Sadly, many of them are WEP protected, and I [...]
Read more →So, somewhere between versions 1.5 and 2.0 they decided to handle all of the redirection and permalinks internally rather than leave it to the fully functional .htaccess file to deal with. At roughly the same time they made a permalink out of /wp/feed/ and they also made the real file /wp/wp-rss2.php stop working properlly. I’m [...]
Read more →Since the introduction of my Powerbook into the house, there’s been a redundant laptop kicking around, and I’ve finally steeled myself and did something about it. I put it on Craigslist. THIS IS NOT A NEW LAPTOP, obviously; especially not at $300 when the docking station and wireless card alone could run you that much [...]
Read more →Everything is happy and well here on the Bankrupt Artist after the upgrade to wordpress 2.0 stable release. There are some nice new features, but there are some minor shortcomings I’m running into. I like the dragable objects in the posting screen, so that you can move “Categories” to the top rather than “Timestamp”; it’s [...]
Read more →The image above is part of an ad I received in an email from Starbucks, and it confuses me. You’d think that the philosophy majors running the espresso machine would understand that they’re not creating ANYTHING. The machines are fully automatic now in every Starbucks I visit – they don’t even have to tamp the [...]
Read more →Today I’m going to cover a number of the bits of music that I’ve acquired freely online; legally and morally. This round focuses on whole albums, rather than the multitude of places where indie bands might post their singles online.
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