Thanks to Miss Fipi Lele for the photo.
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Nov
03
2006
The Difference Between "Candidate" and "Incumbent"
Yesterday, I was asked to post a job announcement on the Tucows Blog and this blog. I did it near the end of the day by cutting, pasting and then applying a little formatting for the web. I didn’t pay much attention to the copy and got called on it by an eagle-eyed reader:
I love [...]
Nov
02
2006
Job Opening at Tucows: Integration Engineer
The company for which I work, Tucows, has a job opening for an Integration Engineer. Here’s a very quick description of the job:
The successful incumbent candidate will have the challenging opportunity to work on Tucows’ vast and complex high availability system spread across multiple data centers, servers and operating systems. You’ll work with a dynamic [...]
Nov
02
2006
Chuck Norris Identifies the One Man Who Can Kick His Ass
Chuck Norris has been riding a wave of fame recently thanks to the “Chuck Norris Facts” meme that’s been floating around the ‘net for the past little while. He’s parleyed it into appearances on talk shows, and now he’s got a columnist gig over at the WorldNetDaily, the online rag that’s so right-wingnut that even [...]
Nov
02
2006
Extended Warranties are for Suckers
That’s another article I’ve posted over at Global Nerdy. Read it and remember it, especially when you go Christmas shopping for high-tech goodies.
Nov
02
2006
Area Man’s Third Attempt to Install Windows Vista
If you’ve been checking out Global Nerdy, a tech blog I share with my buddy George, I’ve gotten my hands on a copy of Release Candidate 1 of Microsoft’s next version of Windows, Windows Vista. So far, I’ve made two attempts to install it, both without success.
Here’s the short version: yes, I finally got it [...]
Nov
01
2006
NOW We’re a World-Class City
“”I wanted to do something that was simple in concept, but executed really, really well,” says Kristen Gale, owner of Queen Street West’s hot new nails-and-waxing place, The Ten Spot.
“And I thought Toronto was missing something like The Ten Spot. I mean, when you ask people what’s the coolest hotel, they say The Drake. [...]
Nov
01
2006
Area Man Makes Second Attempt to Install Windows Vista
“If I wanted my computer rendered useless,” I said, “I would’ve saved myself some time by simply continuing to run Windows XP on it.”
Refusing to take “no” for an answer from my computer, I made a second attempt to install Windows Vista. For the full story, check out my article at Global Nerdy.
Nov
01
2006
All Saints’ Day
Today, November 1st, is All Saints’ Day, a.k.a. Hallowmas (which is why October 31st is All Hallows’ Eve, a.k.a. Hallowe’en). It’s the day before All Souls’ Day: November 2nd, unless it’s a Sunday, in which case it’s moved to November 3rd). However, in Mexico, festivities for what they call El Dia de los Muertos — [...]
Nov
01
2006
Cheesy Movie Ads, 1959 - 1977
Courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele and Headturban, here’s a sampling of incredibly cheesy newspaper ads for movies, whose vintage ranges from 1959 to 1977 (click the photo below to see them at full size). They’re schlock-tastic!
Nov
01
2006
Bobbing for Apples, Cheney-Style and "Dilbert’s" Change of Mind
It’s a day late, but here’s an amusing Hallowe’en comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele:
In torture-related news, Dilbert creator Scott Adams — whose opinion matters among the educated, rationalist, leaning-towards-libertarian crowd (geeks, technologists and such) — has shifted slightly in his opinion on torture, from “pro” to “undecided”:
The media have trotted out expert after expert [...]
