According to Chris Arnall, today might be teh happiest day of the year. I mean, I know you’re all hyper ‘cos it’s my birthday and all, but you know, it’s not that big a deal …
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teddybeardog
a 3 month old St Bernard puppy at the vet next door
Is this your hearse? Yearse!
Licence plate of a hearse seen in Mississauga: R U NEXT.
Rick Mercer’s Blog
Stupid and talking, my favorite combination in a politician.
— from Rick Mercer’s Blog.
good stuff from kennedy road and mississauga?
Picked up some Old Credit Amber Ale. It’s good; comes in obscenely large bottles, so one will get you gently munted. Then, after dismantling the old shed (yeah!), we picked up some great beef noodle soup from Pho Vietnam on Kennedy north of Ellesmere. Yum!
solstice tristesse
The days only get shorter from here on in, sigh …
magicwindy
Yeah, it’s kind of silly, but the magicwindy — a tiny wind-powered bike light — is kind of cute.
… in which Stewart actually does something
Today I built a shed, and put things in it. It wasn’t as if it was a difficult shed (just a Keter prefab), but I like to think of it more as a storage solution than just a shed.
I don’t know what these flowers are
… but they’re in my garden and I kind of like them. I suspect most people would call them weeds.
say something, anything …
It really annoys me that Natural Power Consultants have been so quiet about a blade failure at Crystal Rig. Not merely has it taken them two months to start repairs, but they haven’t come out with a news release saying what happened, how unlikely it is to happen again, and reassuring everyone that this is a) very unusual, and b) fully under control.
Wind farm operators aren’t alone. The actions of one in one country affects the industry worldwide. I mean, we’re even seeing questions in Ontario based on the Altamont experience. So, c’mon people, get hep.
All Is Not Green At The Viridian Design Online Store
Strange that the supposedly deep green Viridian Design online store only features one organic item out of twenty six on sale …
Treehugger: vote for me!!!
Please vote for my picture (#2) on the Treehugger: Windfarms- Beauty or Blight? contest.
Sam Hinton, et al
Memo to self: must remember to get some Sam Hinton music. And probably the Charlie Poole box set, too.
Goslings making the most of any water at Kennedy Commons
wide angles ‘r us
Dissing the discmen
Victor Keegan gets the whole electronic media and copyright: Dissing the discmen
Electrified!
Can I just say that Dressy Bessy‘s Electrified is currently rocking my world? Their noisy, joyous power-pop is a wonder to behold.
“I cannot tell a Soft”
I love the way the word softened has become a nice way of saying falsified, as in Ex-Oil Lobbyist Softened US Climate Research.
more web file managers
I’ve previously written about PHPFileExchange, but it looks like it has strange installation requirements. Cwfm and Owl might do the happy thing, but neither looks quite perfect.
windows is killing usability, pt. 314
Sent some urgent data to a client yesterday. This morning, a couple of frantic e-mails in my inbox: “Our IT dept has blocked zip files ‘cos they’re a security threat. Please resend!”
So basically, Windows now means we have to:
- create the zip file
- rename it to .zap, .zep, .zop, .zup, … or whatever
- send the file
- the recipient has to save the attachment, and rename the file.
Listen, I want to go to a sensible place today. How long will it be before those alternative endings are compromised (or that Windows gets a less lobotomised security model)?