Found: a photo of some clever public washroom hand dryer graffiti…
Mmm…treyf-a-licious!
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Oct
26
2005
“Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.”
Oct
26
2005
Slouching Towards the Geeky Mean
Yesterday, Boss Ross sent me a stack of presentations from Evans Data
Corporation’s 2005 Developer Relations Conference. Seeing as my job is
developer relations, I feel a little silly for having been unaware of
its existence and have adjusted my radar accordingly.
I went through the presentations — mostly outlines of [...]
Oct
26
2005
Buzzword Abuse is Cheap Entertainment
(Alternate title: In which our hero shows that he’s been reading too many articles about these new-style web applications)
The scene: the Tucows offices, early afternoon.
Co-worker: Hey, Joey! How’s married life treating you?
Me [making finger quotes, a.k.a. "sarcasm tongs"]: “Married life?” What is this, the twentieth century? It’s [...]
Oct
26
2005
“Something Positive” on Anne Rice
The webcomic Something Positive has its own take on Anne Rice’s change of subject matter (which I wrote about in this entry). Here’s a sample:
Click on the image to see the whole comic.
Oct
25
2005
Cameo Appearance in “Open Sources 2.0″
My friend and former housemate Paul Baranowski is a developer with Campware, an organization whose purpose is to “develop, distribute, support and implement useful tools for independent news media in emerging democracies.” As such, he keeps up with the literature on Open Source, such as O’Reilly’s book-in-progress, Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.
The book’s introduction [...]
Oct
25
2005
R.I.P. Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks get processed after breaking the law by
refusing to give up her seat for a white guy. Click to see the photo at
full size.
Rosa Parks passed away yesterday at the age of ninety-two.
Thanks, Ms. Parks — because you refused to give up your seat [...]
Oct
24
2005
Teaching the Liberal Media a Lesson They Won’t Soon Forget!
Sometimes when things come down hard on you — like being razzed by
your own supporters for your choice of Supreme Court Nominee and
members of your posse getting indicted — you have to go for whatever
little victories you can get. In this case, the victory in question is
putting [...]
Oct
24
2005
One Month Ago Today…
Happy monthaversary, sweetie!
Alternate photo title: “Funny, He Doesn’t Look Jewish…”
Oct
24
2005
Appearing at SXSW 2006!
I’m always looking for a good excuse to put on the ol’ cowboy hat, and here’s a particularly good one: Julie “Seedlings and Sprouts” Leung has invited Wendy and Yours Truly to sit on the panel she’s organizing for the “Interactive” portion of South by Southwest 2006!
The title of the panel [...]
Oct
24
2005
Linuxcaffe
I was unaware of Linuxcaffe’s
existence until I got the mailing from the PyGTA (a Python group for
the Greater Toronto Area) that its meetings will be held there from now
on. Linuxcaffe, whose motto is “Open kitchen, open source and open
atmosphere”, is a new cafe that caters to the [...]
