It’s the weekend, and I’ve just received a troubling long distance call from someone who has a complaint. He received a phishing message that is was redirected from my employer’s domain. One that invited him to log in and give his account information.
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A new year, where I will be a captive audience for a year-long festival of navel-gazing. The city is four hundred years old; renovations are welcome. Seriously though, we’re off on a spending spree that will be one for the history books. Unlike the rest of the known world, where people have managed to keep house for thousands of years, the New World has an abbreviated memory. Only those who sailed in with canvas sails can claim to have done anything memorable, and this city holds the record for constant settlement by people from a neighbouring continent (deliberate poke at the revisionists of a place near Jamesville, or James City or James Town, or something similar… Wiki left me confused as to the real story).
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The idea of change (in the computing world) doesn’t “cut it” where I spend my days. Open Source, Open Office, Open Minds (I made up the third one); all are actively discouraged. My own efforts to extend the reach of Firefox and Thunderbird and Gimp and a few others don’t seem to wet much pavement, although MySQL did sneak in through a back door. If these products were harder to use, or less dependable, I could accept it. The truth is stranger than fiction.
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The news is out. Some day, at a retailer near you, (in PEI), you will be able to buy a can of pop. Just like everywhere else. More details to follow.
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The start of a new year is a wonderful time to reflect upon the past. The national television network treated us to the retrospective Bye-Bye last evening; a moment in which the Quebec nation is actually joined as one. My own capsule of the last year will not attain the same inconsistent level of humour, but let’s begin.
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In today’s international press, an article stated that this is the most depressing date of the year. Lack of sunlight, bills from the holiday season, an election (here in Canada), lack of resolve for those who formulated intents for the new year. And we had to make the choice to have our dog put down.
Another server, another program, another blog started.
Like music, writing must be practiced; if your instrument is hiding, both physically and metaphorically, then the sound will betray you every time. I have another chance to practice, and this time the efforts are in a “SOUNDPROOF PRACTICE AREA”; my laptop. Let’s see if I can become a proficient student in the new year.
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