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The aim of the game is to take a photo that you believe best fits each description below. All photos must be taken from inside your vehicle.

There are two teams: Team Delta (Simon, Mark), and Team Whiskey (Pugsley, Maazer, Mike).

This game was played out on the evening of Thursday, July 30th, 2003, from approximately 7:30 pm until 10:00 pm.

The overall winner was decided by having an impartial judge (Mark's mom) decide which was the better of each picture pair. Whichever team had more points at the end of this was the winner. The winner was Team Whiskey.

Continue reading “Digital Camera Scavenger Hunt”...

• Written on 31 July 2003 & posted at 08:52 PM.
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The beloved former principal of our not-so-beloved former high school has pled guilty to stealing around $100,000 from the school board's EXCEL program.

Go, Mr Del le Mothe. Or however you spell it. No wonder you had no moral issues with burnt CDs.

• Written on 31 July 2003 & posted at 09:19 AM.
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Well, I've got good news and bad news.

Good News! =)

1. Hilary Rosen is stepping down as the head of the RIAA (boycott them)!
2. fact: The RIAA will take nearly 2,200 years to sue everyone!

Bad News! =(

1. Mitch Bainwol is up, and he's in tight with the evil Republicans.
2. He was chosen because of his close links to Congress, as leverage in the ongoing digital music battle.

“What could be more rewarding than helping to promote two great American traditions: music and property rights?”
— Mitch Bainwol

• Written on 29 July 2003 & posted at 11:15 AM.
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This week is going to fly by at the speed of sound, I think, and I wish it would just go faster. Today is the second day that we have been understaffed — one of the ultrasounders is out again. Losing one person is a big deal when she represents 25% of the work force. It creates a real bottleneck, the bottle of which gets bashed onto me. There are few things in life as terrifying as an angry pregnant woman.

Up next on Fox: When Mommies Attack...

...or something. Sigh. I'm hungry and sick of hospital food and sick of all the food within easy walking distance. I really wish there was a Wendy's in the hospital. Or even just a cafeteria that didn't suck ace. Something other than burnt pizza would real nice.

Anyway, I bought the Bowling for Soup CD yesterday. That's right. I bought a CD. This was four three reasons:

Reason the First: I like their music — the two songs I've heard (Girl All the Bad Guys Want & Life After Lisa).

Reason the Second: It was cheap ($13.99). (FutureShop sell a CD for a realistic price? No way!)

Reason the Third: I wanted to support them. I'd rather just give them some money instead of buying a CD I'll only use once (to make MP3s from). There's no way of doing that now, though, and there should be. Seriously...what would give the band more money? Buying a CD for $15 or giving them $5 through PayPal?

I think the world needs to implement a micropayment system. It really is a good idea. How about, every time I download a song from KaZaa or whatever, I get charged two cents. Make it so I can listen to it once before I have to buy it — 25 cents or so. This would give me unlimited usage — I could burn it however I want, play it on any computer, etc. DRM has the issue that no matter what you do, people will be able to circumvent it in a technical way. The worst part is that you're also making life suck for those who actually support the system. These things work better with the plain old trust system. I think enough people would go through their monetary hoops to keep the industry afloat.

I don't know about movies, though. I think a lot of movie piraters just do it out of spite for the industry.

Well, I have to go sit at my desk and look pretty in case someone decides to stroll up. See you later.

• Written on 29 July 2003 & posted at 08:53 AM.
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Whoops, the URI posted to Linkpool ended up being too long and it got clipped. And since I just copied the URI from Linkpool when I posted last night's entry, it didn't work.

Here is the correct link. Hope it works.

• Written on 28 July 2003 & posted at 01:22 PM.
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This is bloody great! Translate my site from English to French and back again, and watch the hilarious miscommunications ensue. Points to mention:

1) It thinks Jenny is a “she-ass”, leading to the hilarious sentence “this is why we love the she-ass”.
2) It doesn't think too highly of my about page. It thinks it's only approximately about me.
3) It thinks the colors purple and crimson are the same thing (see Linkpool entry posted by Steve on July 26th).
4) It thinks Mike is a microphone.
5) It's strongly opposed to my counter.
6) It disagreed with my description of Ernie's post that I added to the Linkpool on June 27th.

I'm also a fan of “Blows D' Everyday” — cos, you know, I just love to blow the people I link to. The categories in the add to Linkpool list are also humorously mistranslated. I just love it.

“No matter what”.

PS: Check the Linkpool for an entry from the “swimming pool of people” posted by Simon on July 12th.

• Written on 27 July 2003 & posted at 11:30 PM.
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As previously stated, herman is Jesus’s evil twin brother. Seeing as Jesus became famous and worshiped, there was obviously some sibling rivalry taking place. But there was something slightly off with herman. Their father, Big G in the Skizzle, noticed this and took it upon himself to never allow herman to receive the popular he so craved.

...and this is why we love Jenny.

• Written on 27 July 2003 & posted at 01:13 AM.
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It's really weird, but for some reason, the blogging community seems have latched on to Rob's site as a united whole, all because of his ploy a while back to win a Trailblazer. I'm glad he's getting so many links, but I wonder how he suddenly got “out there”. I've been a big fan of his for two or three years — since he was still making “How Much is Inside?” episodes on a regular basis.

The Internet is a weird, weird place. In the efforts of promoting the spread of weird sites, I submit this link. Help a good cause. ;)

• Written on 26 July 2003 & posted at 02:12 PM.
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So, besides Taylor, is anyone else interested in Linkpool for their own sites? If so, I would polish it up and distribute it. But I don't know if there's a market.

Simon, stop licking the inside of my ear.

• Written on 24 July 2003 & posted at 10:32 PM.
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My beloved Cole Harbour Tim Horton's has become a sort of pathetic hang-out for wannabe car guys and their bubblegum bimbos. These people really want to turn this bumpy, oh-so-needing-to-be-paved parking lot into something out of The Fast and the Furious. But, based on the cars, I think any sort of movie made about them would more accurately be titled The Slow and the Rumble-y.

Cole Harbour sucks.

• Written on 24 July 2003 & posted at 10:08 PM.
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Well, this was just too hilarious to not share:


Thanks, Apollo.

• Written on 23 July 2003 & posted at 11:54 PM.
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I'm writing a PHP poll script to replace the horrid, broken one Mike is currently using. I have a horrid, functional one up here. I was hoping you guys could go there and use it — try to find bugs, etc. It's not pretty, but that comes second to function. So, once I know it works, I'll pretty it up for Mike. Test it!

• Written on 23 July 2003 & posted at 10:24 PM.
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At the behest of Colin, here is Janet (From Another Planet), the only “smash hit” Mike and I had as a quasi-band.

• Written on 22 July 2003 & posted at 09:24 PM.
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I'm on hold with a doctor's office.

They're playing muzak...and it's Sweet Caroline.

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OFF SCREEN!!!

• Written on 21 July 2003 & posted at 02:17 PM.
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It's official — my transformation is complete. I am somewhat depressed (well, startled, really) to announce that I have become the most hated of all things: the rude hospital admission clerk.

Sure, I knew there was a possibility of this happening. But I never thought it could happen to me. If I was an overweight, middle-aged woman, I would be the perfect match for the stereotype.

If you mill around my desk, I'll hate you. If you try to get in front of people without a number, I'll hate you. And by God, if you don't have your health card, I will murder you.

“No — your loud, whining child can not draw on the announcements board.”

“Yes — when I call number nine, and your ticket says number nine, but has the outline of a five next to it, I do mean you — does it look like there are five hundred people in the waiting room?”

“Number ten?”

• Written on 21 July 2003 & posted at 01:07 PM.
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Well, I have fixed (or rather patched) the layout so it works on smaller screens like the one I have at work. The title wraps on to a second line, but it doesn't obscure the blog anymore. In fact, it shrinks much more gracefully. I also made the title text a bit smaller.

I'd like to have text that squinched to fit in the amount of space it had — you know, an auto-resize sort of deal. Is there CSS that can do that sort of thing?

• Written on 21 July 2003 & posted at 11:44 AM.
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I have a request for everyone here. Have you ever heard of Google bombing? If not, here's the synopsis: Google ranks sites not only by what they say, but also (and mostly) by what people say about them. A little over two years ago, the guy who created IM Stalking decided to exploit this fact and make a Google search for the term “talentless hack” link to a friend of his.

So I was thinking...I wouldn't mind something like that for me. But instead of “talentless hack”, how about “the bag”? This is where I need your help. If you care to assist me, here's what you do.

1. If you don't have a web page, get one.
2. Mention my site on yours, and if it's a blog, in as many entries as you can without feeling stupid. Always link with the phrase “the bag”, as in the bag.
3. Keep it up for a few weeks.

Seriously. If everyone participated, it could work, and we could kick Bag and Baggage out of the top slot in the Google results for that search (although I am quite fond of that site). Also, someone has plasticbag.org. But I digress.

Who's with me?

• Written on 21 July 2003 & posted at 12:19 AM.
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What do you think of the new layout?

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• Written on 20 July 2003 & posted at 09:18 PM.
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• Written on 20 July 2003 & posted at 04:21 PM.
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There are way too many commonly (and not so commonly) used words that don't have strict enough definitions. For example, few. How many is a few? I'm thinking it's three. And a bunch is obviously five.

Can anyone think of any words that need definition? I suggest somebody hits squinch — I've used that heard as a measurement of length. I'm guessing it's so many inches. Post away, yo.

• Written on 20 July 2003 & posted at 01:02 AM.
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Have you heard the new Eve 6 (warning: ugly web site) song, Think Twice? It's pretty great. I'm a big fan — I thought they'd dropped off the face of the planet or something. The last album they had was their first one, wasn't it? (Checks facts...nope, they had one in 2000.) The fact that they'd played in Halifax was a bad sign, at any rate.

Tonight (and by tonight, I mean last night...erg, I hate it when I write an entry past midnight) we had the barbeque at Joey's. It was fun, and the weather was great. Very nice out, although there was an odd patch of very thick fog on the highway on our way there and back. It never hit Western Shore or Cole Harbour — it just sort of floated there. Meh.

I'm just downloading some songs off of UBL. Most of the stuff there sucks, but they have the occasional gem. I found Custom through it, after all.

Quote of the night: We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Also, I think Mike might be on drugs. That's the only explanation for him linking to this weird site about vaginas. I mean, sure, great topic, but...creepy art. There's no grapes, after all.

Mike is getting his own domain, worldofmike.com. That's super great, but I will miss having him on Trinity, if only because I won't be able to link to him with /mike. What can I say, I'm lazy.

For some reason, this has reminded me...Tony, fix my server! Illegal port ranges are crap.

• Written on 20 July 2003 & posted at 12:28 AM.
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I burned a new CD. You know the drill.

Continue reading “Look at the Shinies!”...

• Written on 19 July 2003 & posted at 05:00 PM.
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I have bad news, all. It looks like Leo will be closing Arklow Convenience.

Where are we going to rent bad movies now?

• Written on 19 July 2003 & posted at 02:01 PM.
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Sigh. Bored at work (as usual). As far as I can tell, no one will be showing up for another half an hour. Mind you, stuff comes up at a fairly constant rate, so I probably don't have much time for a detailed blog entry.

Yesterday, Simon, Mom, Maazer, and I went to Rick Nurse's house for a boat ride and a barbecue. It was quite noice, but I was really tired. I still am, actually. We didn't get home until almost midnight, so I didn't get nearly as much sleep as I'd hoped for last night. Meh. At least I can sleep in tomorrow.

Ack! I have to go — everyone who is interested, please submit ideas for evening activities ASAP. I desperately want to do something. And Pugs, call me, because I think I've messed up PEI yet again (grr me).

• Written on 18 July 2003 & posted at 01:25 PM.
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Well, not much happened today, but I did get some pictures. Something more interesting is bound to happen tomorrow, since I get paid (yay).

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• Written on 16 July 2003 & posted at 08:58 PM.
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Sigh. They're on to me. The Tim Horton's staff , that is — they've realized that I ingest a revolting amount of coffee. On my third extra-large of the day, they threatened to cut me off. And now they're all bugging me and stuff, even the excessihot girl.

Sigh. It's not easy being a coffee freak.

Mmm...coffee...

Work is going well. I'm off in 36 minutes, at which point I walk over to the Citadel and wait for Maazer to get off at six. Then we go to get my extra-sexy new glasses (yay!).

Even more bonusful is tomorrow, when I get my massive pay. Most of it is going to other things, though ($200 for tires, $150 for glasses, $50 for eye exam, $500 for trip, etc). I will probably end up with roughly the same amount of money as normal.

Which isn't bad, I guess, since it means I will be able to buy a book. I'm almost done Harry Potter Book V now, and ahead of Maazer (much to her chagrin). I have a mental image of her furiously reading in the kiosk at work today, trying to get ahead of me again. Hehe. :)

Before I go, I just thought I'd mention that the “you” audioblogs on Taylor's site are absolutely hilarious. Why don't I get whack jobs like that on mine?

Meh. Sest lavee.

• Written on 16 July 2003 & posted at 03:20 PM.
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No interesting stories, except perhaps for the car with the hilariously wobbling muffler and (yes, we're horrible people) the scary, but excited, mentally challenged woman in the wheelchair. Never before have I seen such drool.

Read on for a few photos.

Continue reading “Photos, yeah”...

• Written on 14 July 2003 & posted at 10:25 PM.
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Today, Simon and I voyaged all the way down to the western shore of Nova Scotia. We met up with Mom, Joey, and Mary Ann at Joey's house and all went to Lunenberg via Mahone Bay. Lunenberg was tiny and somewhat quaint, as usual — although the food at Big Red's was absolute crap. On the bright sign, they did have a sign in their washroom asking people not to flush underwear down the toilet, as it clogs their sewage system. The funny thing is that this has obviously happened, thus necessitating the sign. People are stupid. In an unusual coincidence, there was a family from a town near Melbourne in the Lunenberg art gallery, and we also ran into my aunt and uncle. Life is funny.

After Lunenberg, Simon and I branched off and visited Bridgewater. It's a hole (don't bother protesting, Mary Ann, you know it's a fact =), true, but it has a nice park where Simon took some photos.

On the trip home, we stopped at Oak Island (or as close to it as we could get, which is the opposite side of the causeway) and then hit the highway. It was a fun day, and very nice overall. I'm tired, though, and my left leg hurts. Bloody manual transmissions. What can you do?

• Written on 13 July 2003 & posted at 08:41 PM.
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The following bugs have been fixed in SpindeXML Search since the 0.9.9 release last night:

• fixed special characters bug that made you unable to search for ' " < > or & without using the XML escape sequences (&apos; &quot; &lt; &gt; &amp;)


• fixed bug regarding status line (showed wrong number of indexes after a search, or showed 0 indexes when searching a single index)


• fixed upper progress bar bug when searching a single index

If you have found any other bugs, let me know, puleeze, Kimmoi.

• Written on 12 July 2003 & posted at 06:15 PM.
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Kitta has invented an interesting new acronym for instant messaging and chat, although I'm not sure how often it's appropriate.

ROTFLTHTSASTCMMMWIATIHEPMASCTPA
TTMTMHAAOTIYFYSFPOSWYLJTMMLTMYB

(Rolling On The Floor Laughing Too Hard To Stop And Scaring The Cat, Meanwhile My Mom Walked In And Thought I Had Eaten Poisonous Mushrooms And She Called The Paramedics And They Took Me Too Mad House And All Of This Is Your Fault You Stupid Fathead Piece Of Shit With Your Lame Jokes That Make Me Laugh This Much You Bastard)

• Written on 12 July 2003 & posted at 05:19 PM.
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Everybody, download SpindeXML v0.9.9 — this is release candidate one. If no one finds any major problems, this is pretty much what I will be releasing. Don't mention the progress bar or index count bugs in the search component, though — they're on the to-do list before official release. E-mail for a serial number (assuming you're a real-life person and not some random stranger). Anyway, if you're confused by the many different EXE files, spindexml.exe is the one you're meant run. However, running the other two will work — use them if you just want to search or just want to add, and not have them be integrated with each other.

Oh, and happy 20th birthday, Pugs. Or something.

• Written on 12 July 2003 & posted at 12:27 AM.
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I have the song “Clumsy” by Our Lady Peace stuck in my head. I have no idea where it came from. Maybe the same place as babies, I don't know. I've been reading the Windows 95 documents at work when there's nothing to do, and I guess it's bring back six year old memories of when I first got it and did the same thing. “Clumsy” was one of my first MP3s.

Grr. I'm tired at being at work today. I want to be at home in time to watch “Reading Rainbow”. Which is really lame. I think I will get SpindeXML up to version 1.00 tonight and put it online. The browser isn't ready yet, but everything else works fine. I need a readme and a web site for it, and I wonder if it will make any money.

I am very sad that I'm done my book. I really miss those letters for Charlie.

And “i” is the most common letter to start a new line in this book.

• Written on 11 July 2003 & posted at 03:53 PM.
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I just, this very moment, finished reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky. Yes, that's his last name. I really, really enjoyed it — the last page gave me a tingle down my spine, and I think it's one of my favourite books of all time. I know I say that a lot, about everything, but I mean it here. If you can find a copy, read it.

Ryan's Week has turned into something rather amusing, namely a theological debate between my Mom and Pugsley. I didn't see that one coming. Prior to this religious debate, another had preceded it — Tony vs The World, re: browsers. Internet Explorer sucks ace — move to Mozilla Firebird if it's the last thing you do. You can't beat tabbed windows and integrated pop-up stopping. I know Internet Explorer will inevitably have those features in the next version, but I think I'll stick with Firebird (if it keeps progressingly). The Mozilla rendering engine is so much better than Internet Explorers. Compare this site in Firebird and Internet Explorer. Notice the borders around my content are dashed, not dotted as they should be. And notice graphical artificats around the border when you scroll. IE has really fallen behind.

Anyway, this weekend should be noice. Simon and I are set to head to Bridgewater for Risser's Beach. Risser's is nice and has much larger waves than Lawrencetown. However, if you read my mom's blog, you'll know that Risser's was considerably colder than Lawrencetown this time last week. I wonder how it will work out? Either way, Simon will see more of the province, and thus more of the country, which was his entire goal for the trip anyway.

• Written on 10 July 2003 & posted at 10:18 PM.
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Work is so dull today. My mind is wandering between “Perks of Being a Wallflower” (which is excellent) and an August layout for the bag. I have an idea for an interesting and somewhat off-balance design. I want it to be totally liquid and to have the sidebar on the right.

Sigh. Someone is giving birth in the hospital lobby. Life goes on, & I wonder how much of the world is held together by paper clips.

• Written on 10 July 2003 & posted at 03:47 PM.
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Arg. My life has been uber busy for the last few days, hence the lack of posts. I've been blogging on paper, but I just haven't gotten the chance to type it all up, and it's not with me at the moment. So, here's a brief summary (look for retroactively posted items in the next few days).

Monday
3:30 pm — Mike arrives home from his trip to England and Spain.
6:00 pm — My glasses break. They aren't fixable and the lenses won't fit into any other frames. New glasses arrive in a week, at a cost of $150. CRAP.
9:51 pm — We notice the tires on the car are shot. CRAAAP.

Tuesday
7:13 pm — All four tires need replacing. $388. CRAAAAAP. Mom and I are splitting it, though, and the car drives much nicer.

Wednesday
Work work work.

Actually, that work work work part has summed up the whole week by itself. My pay will be huge, but I'm missing my spare time, especially now that I know Reading Rainbow is still on the air (channel four, two o'clock) with new episodes.

If all goes well, I'll be going to Prince Edward Island with Simon and Pugsley on Friday.

• Written on 09 July 2003 & posted at 10:09 PM.
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For the trip to Mic Mac Mall tonight, with Simon & Maazer.
1. More pens like this (Sanford Uni-ball Gel Grip)
2. New cable for laptop-TV hook-up
3. New fuzzy dice
4. New pants (if cheap)
5. Battery for camera (if <50)

• Written on 09 July 2003 & posted at 03:40 PM.
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Heh. It's my mom.

Continue reading “Hehehe”...

• Written on 08 July 2003 & posted at 10:21 PM.
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Today was absolutely insane. I'm zonked. If I described my day at work, I think I'd pass out. What a stressful 24 hour period!

First, my glasses break. Fantastic. I had to get new ones, since my lenses wouldn't find it any other frame, and my current pair are unfixable. The glasses lady has patched mine back into some form of usefulness, but they are really uncomfortable & fragile, & my new pair does not arrive until next week. Subtract $160.

Second, the tires on our 9 month old car are messed. Two have unhealthy buldges (I know there's no 'd' in that word; let it slide) and one is flat & bald. (This is in contrast to my neighbour, who is fat & bald). Needless to say, I'm spending the evening at Canadian Tire. Depending on verdict, subtract $100-$400.

• Written on 08 July 2003 & posted at 03:36 PM.
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I'm writing this on paper, because today is somewhat interesting, and I will forget the details by the time I am nuzzled up to my familiar keyboard once again.

It's my 11th day on the job, and the first day that I am unsupervised. Although I had pictured today being an utter disaster, there has been no incident other than an empty printer and an utter lack of suitable paper with which to refill it.

I'm dreaming of a cottage I will never see again and hoping we beat the record temperature for this day. It's 27 degrees at the moment, and it was 28 on this day in 1981.

In the style of the previous three paragraphs, I'm starting this one with an i. Mike returns from his holiday today at half-ast three. Although life has been busy & interesting with Simon here, the nights have been somewhat subdued without the nearly permanent presence of Mike.

It will be good to have him back.

• Written on 07 July 2003 & posted at 03:30 PM.
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ShinyPlasticBag.com is about to celebrate it's first birthday (July 16th). I renewed it today, without a hitch, really. I meant to use Simon's credit card (with his permission, of course), but the site had Mom's in its database and used that instead. Apparently, I missed the button to change which card to use. Oh well.

Wish the Bag a happy birthday and check out a few pictures from today.

Continue reading “Almost Once”...

• Written on 06 July 2003 & posted at 11:59 PM.
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Jonathan Harel has a really great lyrics page.

Continue reading “Maybe it's the best song”...

• Written on 06 July 2003 & posted at 12:51 AM.
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Um, pictures and stuff.

My mom likes to leave humorous notes for me. They almost all pertain to fruit. Weird.

TJ and Vanessa have the cutest dog in the world. It goes well with the cutest kid in the world, who also lives with them. I'd post a picture of Logan but I don't know if they'd really want that.

This is a really, really cool thing TJ gave my mom. It contains seven types of sand from the seven emirates in the UAE (pronounced “ooh, aye” — sounds like it should be a part of Scotland).

• Written on 05 July 2003 & posted at 10:31 PM.
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Hrm. How is the world? I'm having a dull, bum around the house sort of day. It's not so bad. Simon and Maazer are making soap, of all things. She really thinks that he should have a hobby. She also thinks that I should, and that coding doesn't count as one.


New Non-Copyright-Infringing Logo, courtesy of Simon

Speaking of which, I've worked on SpindeXML tons today. At the behest of Simon, I'm turning it into shareware. He thinks it might actually make some money, so why not? I remain surprised that no big companies have offered any data management programs for average people. I know tons of people with dozens and dozens of CDs. I think it's an unexploited market. Maybe SpindeXML will be huge. Who knows?

SpindeXML is now at version 0.9.9. There's a new component (Unification) that unifies the other two components. It's the part of SpindeXML that you actually run yourself — it displays a list of your indexes and lets you add or delete new ones. It also links to the search component, and there's a new feature that lets you search through one particular index by itself. I plan on adding the ability to select several indexes and search through those.

Anyway, that's my geeky day. I learned how to loosely link two programs (Unification updates the index list as soon as the Indexer is done creating a new index). Life's fun.

• Written on 05 July 2003 & posted at 08:19 PM.
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Hurray for everything, because SpindeXML 0.9.1 is here . No new features, really, but it won't choke when adding CDs with errors on them, and it informs you of any problems it encounters. In addition to that, I've changed the layout of results.html. The size and modified columns are gone (they made the table too wide) and put them in a tooltip that pops up when you mouse over the file. The skin is also much nicer. :) If you hate it, though, the old one is still there — just rename defaultheader.html, defaultfooter.html, and defaultstyle.css to header.html, footer.html, and style.css.

I feel like crap-o-la. Go download SpindeXML, be happy, and let me live vicariously through you.

PS: Happy Independence Day. I hope aliens blow up the White House.

PPS: This is post number 256. That's 2^8. One whole byteload of entries. Super great.

Holy crap, am I ever a geek.

• Written on 04 July 2003 & posted at 08:23 PM.
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Here it is, a blank icon for you, Pugsley.

• Written on 04 July 2003 & posted at 07:26 PM.
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Well, the world is still moving in the same general direction as before, and today was largely irrelevant. I can't wait for the weekend.

It was payday (bonus!), so I took Maazer out to dinner at Montana's and bought a case for my camera. The case was surprisingly cheap ($10.33, to be precise) and it's quite nice. There's a little pocket for my USB cable, too.

I'm desperately seeking new blogs to read. Far too many have gone stale. Your findings are quite welcome. I must return to the dreadful Jennifer Aniston movie that I just can't stop watching.

Noight.

• Written on 03 July 2003 & posted at 10:30 PM.
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Dear Little Monster;

You and I have lived a largely peaceful life until now. You do the dishes and clean up after yourself most of the time, and we usually agree on what music to play.

However, I must ask that you stop playing Janet Jackson on the stereo. It's driving me crazy — how many times can you listen to Go Deep before you get tired of it?

Please don't make me do anything rash (ie uninstalling Winamp from my brain). Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely;
Mark

• Written on 02 July 2003 & posted at 06:47 PM.
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So, it's Canada Day (woo), and a boring one at that. I don't know why, but it was nearly as fun as usual. There didn't seem to be as many events as normal, which might be due to it being a Tuesday as opposed to a weekend. Meh.

Dad borrowed my laptop for the afternoon to type a cover letter for a job. I hate not having my laptop, or anyone else having it. It's very weird.

I got some interesting photos, though. I love my camera.

Continue reading “Happy Canada Day”...

• Written on 01 July 2003 & posted at 08:55 PM.
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Posted by Timothy on Slashdot.
genericplacebo writes “Japanese computer giant NEC Corp. Monday revealed a prototype of a laptop computer that runs on a methanol fuel cell instead of a rechargeable battery, and said it will start selling it next year. NEC initially plans to introduce a computer with a fuel-cell system able to run for five consecutive hours on a single cartridge of methanol fuel, but also plans to make a PC within two years that can run continuously for as long as 40 hours.”

• Written on 01 July 2003 & posted at 08:40 AM.
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