Having moved from Montreal to Ottawa I often find myself frustrated at
Ottawa’s small-town attitude, conservatism, and generally not being
a world-class city.
Walking down Elgin Street the other night, Candice and I
passed a bar (can’t remember which) with a sign out front that
read
Live Jazz
Tonight
7:30 – 10:30
Let me establish again that this was a bar, not a restaurant.
What [...]
In with all of the email we’ve been receiving because of the sobig
virus and variants was this gem:
Date: Thu Aug 21 11:22:53 2003
To: <faq@e-smith.com>
From: postmaster@alna.lt
Subject: Network Associates Webshield – e-mail Content Alert
Network Associates WebShield SMTP V4.5 MR1a on mars intercepted a mail
from <faq@e-smith.com> which caused the Content Filter <*.pif> unallowed
attachment to be triggered.
Long ping [...]
Jayo drew my attention to two articles about naked
emperors, all encouraged by the announcement of a recent
blogging-freakin’-conference.
from
the Register in typical Reg style, love it or hate it
August
Pollak who I don’t know but who is particularly quotable
Looking around I found a few more amusing and quotable bits:
Tom
Tomorrow, “except, well, without [...]
Pix0r the first: Whee, I have a new icon. See?
Pix0r the second: Candice and I took pictures of ourselves this afternoon!
It’s a quiet Friday afternoon of a four-day week at the top of
August, so it’s pretty quiet at work today. I don’t really have
anything to hack on that I can start, work a couple hours, and
put away for three days, so I found myself wandering down to the
corporate library for the first time since I [...]
I noticed a moment ago that SCO CEO Darl McBride’s to-do list appears
to have been accidentally posted to the SCO website.
(In case you get the flash monstrosity and can’t see what I’m seeing,
I’m talking about this image from their entrance page.)
Purchased today at HMV’s huge sale:
The Sounds — Living In America
Talking Heads — Speaking In Tongues
Klezmer: A Rough Guide
Patsy Cline compilation
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys compilation
YOW! Am I ECLECTIC yet?
All good CDs, but I need to rave a bit more about The Sounds. This
Swedish quintet — Ivarsson, Anderberg, Nilsson, Bengtsson,
Rodriguez? — cranks out rough-edged [...]
Candice has been moving stuff here from her old apartment
lately, and one of the things that she’s brought over is her ten gallon
aquarium. Unfortunately two of the five fish in it did not survive the
move — but this meant that we had to buy more fish! There was plenty
of room for more fish on top [...]