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Wikipedia 2001, another bike, honeymooning
Varia: Today is Thursday, December 20, 2001 at the nostalgic Wikipedia. I’m shopping for a bike again. The 250 is too small for safe highway riding. My ride here would have been a lot less great if I happened to get an angry driver behind me on one of those long hills. Looking at maybe […]
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Packing your service now
I just went to install the Windows 2003 Server Administration Tools Pack on my Windows 2000 desktop, and got the following error: Windows Server 2003 Service pack 1 Administration Tools Pack can be installed only on computers running either Windows XP Professional 9with either Q329357 or Service pack 1 or later applied) or Windows Server […]
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Hurricane
A free-verse poem I found about a building hurricane: Flat. Calm. Ripples without crests. Wind motion visible in smoke. Small wavelets. Wind felt on exposed skin. Leaves rustle. Large wavelets; leaves and smaller twigs in Constant motion. Small waves. Dust and loose paper raised. Small branches begin to move. Moderate longer waves; some foam and […]
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time for some quick visuals
Why I tend to ride in Quebec rather than Ontario: Ontario country roads Quebec country roads
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Dealing with web forum pests
A while ago I thought of a great way to deal with abusive users on non-techy Web forums. The problem with banning users from forums is that they just register another account and continue until they get caught again, and so on, and banning by source address tends to affect a lot of innocent folks. […]
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A worldwide phenomenon
Ask Metafilter remembers the porn in the woods. (All text.)
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Great ride through Wakefield today!
It was beautiful out today (high of 27°C, humidex only around 32°C — yesterday saw 32 and 42 respectively) and I had today off so I took to the road on my longest ride yet: up through Gatineau Park, across to Highway 105 at Chelsea or so, north to the River Road to Wakefield, QC, […]
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Confused about MotoGP 3
Anyone know the deal with Namco’s MotoGP 3 for the PS2 (not to be confused with THQ’s MotoGP 3 for Xbox and PC)? It’s available new on Amazon Japan for ¥7,140 (~$US 65), but only from third-party sellers on Amazon US starting around $US 50, and is on Amazon UK for £9.99 (~$US 17) from […]