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Monthly Archives October 2003

MAN THE INTERCSAFT

Whee! Candice and I found out on Friday night that Vancouver’s Hot Hot Heat will be playing in Ottawa on December 4th. I’ve
wanted to see Hot Hot Heat live as long as I’ve known their music, but
they didn’t make it out east that often, and we now have two tickets
for their show. These guys are [...]

Posted 26 October 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °

Testing email posting: 2 of 3

Trying to figure out why email posting is spotty. Apologies for the testgasm; you’ve got a support volunteer on your friends list :-)

Posted 25 October 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) °

pixy’s color scheme chooser

For the longest time I used the Visibone Webmaster’s
Color Lab for the rare times when I had to come up with a color
scheme for something webby. (I still do, really; it’s pretty neat.)

Reading Kottke’s remaindered links list the other day,
though, I came across Pixy’s color scheme
chooser, which instead of only comparing colors together lets you
choose [...]

Posted 24 October 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °

Attn lazyweb:

I want a software blog.

I want it to tell me about neat things that I should be running in
Linux, primarily, and maybe also about neat things on other platforms.
It should definitely be about open-source software.

It needs to represent a lot of voices, and not be a column written
by one person. So it could be a [...]

Posted 24 October 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °

New toy!

I brought a teleworker phone — er, excuse me, a Mitel 5220 VoIP set –
home from work a while ago to play with, and to use when I work from
home. Some networking issues here (mostly involving being too lazy to
set up a dhcp server behind the second router) prevented me from
getting it up and going [...]

Posted 22 October 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (9) °

Hinterland Who’s Who

Canadians who watched TV while growing up in the late 60s through early
80s will appreciate this
MetaFilter thread.

Posted 21 October 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (1) °

Ah, darkness.

The last two rounds of layoffs, plus a subsequent round of cubicle
moves, has left my cubicle surrounded on two sides by empty ones, on the
third side by a cubicle-hall and cubicle-wall, and on the fourth side
by an outside window.

Until about five minutes ago, there was a fluorescent light fixture
directly above my head. Now, there is [...]

Posted 20 October 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (5) °

NEW AMERICAN HLAGHLAGHLAGHLGHURF

“I’m singing about suicide, insomnia and paranoia,” [Vanessa] Carlton says
about the album, which isn’t due until next year. “There’s nothing piano
recital-y about it. It’s goth.”

OMG IM SO GOTH!! AND WICCAN AND MATURE AND LIKE YOU KNOW GAG ME.

Posted 20 October 2003 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °