Well, maybe it’s not something that’s wrong with Halifax, but something that’s wrong with The West. I’ve been finding the people here to be nice, approachable, and kind to strangers. Strangers that they don’t have to be nice to; even going to the point of putting themselves out in order to accommodate said strangers. I [...]
Read more →As a UNIX systems administrator, my primary job is to do as little work as possible. My day is supposed to be filled with looking for ways to reduce my workload; anything I could conceivably do twice should be looked at as something that could have a script written to perform the work the second [...]
Read more →I know that sunday shopping is new here in Halifax, but I had no idea that it would be so slow to catch one; book shops, music stores, entire malls, and so much more were locked up tight as I wandered around downtown. Convenience stores were conveniently closed as were stores that I couldn’t fathom [...]
Read more →Well, I couldn’t find a Halifax graffiti group on Flickr, though I can barely find much in the way of graffiti downtown either. Decided I may as well just create another regional graffiti group, so if anyone’s into that sort of specificity… http://www.flickr.com/groups/hfxgraffiti/
Read more →Photos from the show Photos from around Halifax Photos from the trip out
Read more →The other day, the dog got a bit weird, acting as if she had seen something that she just couldn’t believe. She was staring into this narrow space beside the bed, waiting for something to happen again, maybe to prove to herself that she wasn’t crazy. Then last night I saw it, and I didn’t [...]
Read more →I recently returned from my first official show in one of the five million bars here in town that offer live entertainment. It was a mentalist going by the stage name Mysterion or Mysterio … well there were dancing girls as well, but he was the big draw, being from Toronto. It was alright, but [...]
Read more →Well, Downtown Halifax is packed solid with shops; mostly of the non-chain variety it would seem. I don’t believe I’ve seen a 7-11 yet, but only a couple Subway shops. Most of the other food on the street is from non-brand-name vendors. The A&Ws and such are relegated to the indoor malls, away from sensitive [...]
Read more →It’s not ideal, but it has a keyboard that can be used to type on at a sane rate of speed. Sure, it’s right inside the front doors, mere feet away from guests entering and exiting; any closer and they’d have to climb over me to get to the front desk. It’s not a hotel [...]
Read more →Turns out that the convenient hotel that takes dogs and is near to the place I’ll be starting work on Monday has a big failing; no internet access in the pet-friendly rooms. Crap. The options amount to; wireless in the lobby, a single business center computer in the lobby, something that they refer to as [...]
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