25th
April
2008
There; another software update completed without mishap. This new version of WordPress does something really well; it lets me know when new code is available, and the installation process is painless. Other than the time required to erase the older base (typically about thirty minutes using my FTP client), the transfers are simpler than before, and the database structure is stable. Let’s say it in colloquial terms: the new version rocks!
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19th
April
2008
Up here in Canada, there are a certain number of things that are inevitable; snow, mosquitoes, cascaded taxes, potholes and hockey on TV. Given the number of sports networks, the value to advertisers and the propensity of a certain subset to stare fixedly at any screen with a black dot, hockey rises to the top of the subject vat this evening. It’s not my fault.
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posted in media |
28th
March
2008
I felt like I hit the parcel jackpot this afternoon. After picking up a cylinder containing fifteen pairs of scissors at work (destined for a group of scrapbooking students that I’ll never meet), I got home to my trusty Superbox to find even more booty.
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posted in economy |
21st
March
2008
This is an existential question: if I play a real guitar while the person beside me is playing Guitar Hero, are Wii both playing guitars? Or are we both heroes? Or none of the above. The juxtaposition of real life and simulation, while listening to songs from Boston or Slayer is enough to make my head spin, round and round, like a record.
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8th
January
2008
No thanks, I’m fine right where I am. I’ve finished another great book by Paul Theroux, and it comes at the moment where the closest I’m likely to approach to the border of my country is, well, irrelevant. I’m not intending to travel any time soon.
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posted in politics |
24th
April
2007
In one week the traps will be on the bottom, filling up with those expensive little buggies that make the tourists all weak at the knees. At least, that’s the hope. You see, in certain coastal areas the annual lobster season will begin at dawn on the first of May, and hundreds, nay thousands of fisher people will again pray for healthy harvests and high prices. Think of a very wet gold rush, with no gold but lots of wet. There you are, lobster fishing.
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22nd
April
2007
Of for the simpler times, when changing the channel required a twist of the wrist, rather than sequenced act of remote control manipulations. I’m protesting the proliferation of blippers needed to control our main TV. Further, I’m protesting our dependence; when the TV reverted to a single-channel one-eyed monster last evening, none were impressed.
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posted in media, technology |
5th
March
2007
There have been a lot of Best Picture Oscars awarded. Well, not a lot; one per best picture, since no movie has ever won twice. And to be fair, some of them should never have won one. All part of the game. This weekend I rented the most recent winner, and my vote is in favour. The Departed is simply great.
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28th
April
2006
Sometimes we just have to get out and do all those little odd runaround the town jobs that pile up. Tonight, the list wasn’t outrageously long, and it did all get done in time, but when someone asks what life was like here in the dawn of a new century, I can give this as a profile.
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posted in economy |
26th
April
2006
One of the features of WordPress that makes my day is the remarkable range of themes that can be applied, as long as you feel comfortable with the “out of the box” menu choices. A bit more effort, a bit of coding, and a bit of imagination and things get better; those same themes can be adapted and then adopted.
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