Earliest back-to-school ever; Staples has some B2S displays, and I’m not even sure the kids are out of school for the summer.
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mark’s doodle, July 2001
Here is a drawing of a farting elephant, made by Mark Taylor, formerly of Collins Dictionaries.
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Stewart C. Russell – scruss.com
The move to Teksavvy has finally goaded me into moving my old Sympatico pages to scruss.com. Considering they’re still using 2003-style markup, I think they look quite smooth.
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you suck, Hershey’s!
We made a special detour via Smith’s Falls, and the Hershey factory store had no Payday bars. Aargh!
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pocket mail
Gmail works flawlessly on the BlackBerry. Wish I could find a general POP3 client for my other mail…
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in Quebec (just) for my birthday
Nice of them to have their holiday especially for me. It’s appreciated.
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convert an angle to a bearing in excel
I can’t believe I had difficulty with this one for so long:
 =MOD(450-angle,360)
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it’s *safe* harbour, you spammy morons
Just received a phishing e-mail that purports to come from eBay Pearl Harbour Security Departament. That’s pretty dumb.
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new connection
Switched ISPs from Sympatico to Teksavvy today. Couldn’t keep paying Bell $46 a month for something I could get for less elsewhere. I’m not (yet?) getting faster service, but the Speedtouch modem has all the admin stuff I’d need.
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Brett’s Art
We’re going to see the CentralConnection Art show at Withrow Park today. Our friend Brett Hilder is exhibiting.
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a man of the island
“I’m not worldly. I’m barely islandly.”
— Peter Stampfel
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Well, that was quick …
I started installing OpenBSD 90 minutes ago on the old Thinkpad, and that’s it done. When I get my static IP, I have plans …
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try conderoga
Yep, another one about pencils. I do like the Dixon Tri-Conderoga, but I don’t think I could quite gush about it as much as Pencil Revolution did. It’s a nice writer, but the first one I tried was a bit gristly for sharpening with a knife. They do smell good. There’s a freshly sharpened one nearby, and it’s doing an excellent “walk through cedar woods” impression.
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scissors, shears, geddit?!
The presenter of this paper claimed that PowerPoint changed α, the wind shear coefficient, to ✂. We laughed, briefly.
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didn’t make it
One of the little guys didn’t make it. There’s a sad little grey fuzzy corpse in the back yard, already pulsing with disco rice and greenbottles.
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flahz
Our peonies are the envy of the neighbourhood, despite our (well, my) slightly lax gardening skills.
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aah! the world is ending!
Telus Teleconferencing have replaced their awful, awful, so awful it’s good wait muzak with popular tunes!
 
