If you’re still not up to speed on the “network neutrality” debate about the internet, and you’re not a hard-core techie, you can still find out what’s going on without being subjected to too much technobabble. A good starting point is a Washington Post piece titled The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet, but [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Jul
14
2006
Why Peter Might be Repeating Algebra Next Year
You’ve got to give “Peter”, whose answer for the algebra test question is shown below, some credit for at least being funny in the face of not knowing the binomial theorem:
By the bye, the answer is:
[Thanks to Adampsyche for the photo!]
Jul
14
2006
The Thagomizer
If you’re in your twenties or older, chances are that you’ve seen the Far Side comic shown on the left: the caveman slideshow in which the spikes on the tail of a stegosaurus are identified as the “Thagomizer”, named in memory of an unfortunate caveman named Thag Simmons.
Although I’ve known that The Far Side comics [...]
Jul
14
2006
Third Work-a-Versary
In addition to being Bastille Day, it is also the third anniversary of my joining Tucows as its Technical Community Development Coordinator. So far, in the course of this job, I have:
Held one job title — Technical Community Development Coordinator — the longest title in the company
Worked in two departments: Research and Innovation under “Boss [...]
Jul
13
2006
Adopting an Eccentricity
One of today’s questions on the Ask MetaFilter site is:
In my quest to become more distinctive, I’m looking for suggestions of harmless eccentricities to adopt. Who better than the MeFi hive mind to provide them? Anecdotes of eccentric folk you’ve known in the past welcome.
One of the responses mentioned that I always carry [...]
Jul
13
2006
Area Company Doing the "Look and Feel" of Firefox 2
This is just a quick note to congratulate Radiant Core, a company located just down the street from Tucows, who are also involved in Toronto’s BarCamp and Democamp. They’ve just announced that they’ve been retained by Mozilla to design and implement the official theme for the Firefox 2 release! Our heartiest congratulations to Jay and [...]
Jul
13
2006
Tucows/Serious Magic’s "Cow Tipping Contest"
(This article also appears in Tucows Farm.)
It’s a Contest!
The company for whom I work, Tucows, and Serious Magic, a company that develops video communication software, have joined up to launch a contest called “Cow Tipping”. Contest participants have to create a tutorial video on their favourite software, hardware or web service using Serious Magic’s Vlog [...]
Jul
13
2006
Just So You Know…
…the blog’s going to look a little weird for the next couple of weeks as I retool it a bit. I’ll make sure it’s still readable.
Jul
13
2006
Rob and Dave at the Grizzly, Chicago
From the “I’ve been meaning to post this for ages” file: when I went to Chicago for RailsConf, I had a free evening with which to catch up with my friends Dave and Rob, who live there. I’ve known Dave for nearly two years and met him through Wendy; I’ve known Rob since 1989 — [...]
Jul
13
2006
More About Those Japanese Doritos
(The links in this article are slightly racy, so be warned.)
In the comments for the entry titled Exciting New Doritos Flavour!, a commenter going by the name of “manfire” explains that these characters (in the right column of Japanese writing on the Doritos bag pictured to the right):
read as denki anma.
As “manfire” says and a [...]
Jul
13
2006
Three Poems
Jason Kottke recently linked to a poem by Joan Murray about the old white-guy-voting-Republican demographic, titled We Old Dudes:
We old dudes. We
White shoes. We
Golf ball. We
Eat mall. We
Soak teeth. We
Palm Beach; We
Vote red. We
Soon dead.
…and I thought: Wait a [...]
Jul
12
2006
How I Got This Developer Relations Gig
It all boils down to this picture, taken in New York in February 2000:
The full explanation is on my work blog, in which I cover possible job moves for programmers.
Jul
12
2006
The Squishy Cow Deadline Has Come and Gone!
The deadline for requests for squshy cows has passed. I’m afraid that due to demand, I can’t fulfill any more requests, but keep in mind that this won’t be the last time we have such an offer!
Thanks to everyone who participated — your cows will be in the mail soon!
Jul
11
2006
Deadline for Squishy Cow Requests: Midnight Tonight!
Due to the demand for squishy cows (see this entry), I have to impose a deadline. If you want me to send you a squishy cow free of charge, you must:
Email me your mailing address before 12:00 a.m. Eastern (GMT - 4), Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Promise to take a picture of the squishy cow [...]
Jul
11
2006
Exciting New Doritos Flavour!
Never mind “Cool Ranch” or “Black Pepper Jack” Doritos — all the cool kids eat “Swift Kick to the ‘Nads” Doritos!
But seriously, if any of you can read Japanese or know what’s going on with the packaging, please leave a note in the comments and explain what’s happening here.
[Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele]
Jul
11
2006
Rannie Captures Cronenberg
At Saturday night’s exclusive-to-bloggers gathering where we got to have a one-on-one with David Cronenberg, guest curator for the Andy Warhol “Supernova” exhibit, Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan took this photo which captures Cronenberg at his Cronenbergiest. I couldn’t help adding a caption:
A deliciously eeeevil photo of David Cronenberg, taken by Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan. Click the photo [...]
