[This was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.]
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
For reference, see:
Michael Geist in the Toronto Star — Time to revamp mobile Internet pricing
Michael Geist — Canada’s Communications Outlook: Average at Best
Thomas Purves — Canada Worse than 3rd World Countries when it comes to Mobile Data Access
Information Echo — A Collossal Ripoff [...]
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
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You can see more Giada di Laurentiis in my article featuring a photo shoot for Esquire.
I also have a Nigella Lawson post, if that your thing.
In your face, First and Business Class! Survival rates for various parts of the passenger cabin, based on an analysis of all commercial jet crashes in the United States since 1971 where detailed seating charts were available.Illustration by Gil Ahn, diagram courtesy of seatguru.com, image taken from Popular Mechanics. Click the picture to see the [...]
Evon Reid, who was called the “Ghetto Dude” in a mis-forwarded email from the Ontario government. Photo taken from his Facebook page.
It’s insult added to injury: not only did poor Evon Reid find out that he wasn’t accepted for a job by way of an accidental email forwarding, he was referred to in [...]
While surfing around, I stumbled across a link on the site Internet Duct Tape that took me to an article on Lifehacks.org titled 10 Virtually Instant Ways to Improve Your Life. Believe you me, a link like that is hard to ignore. Here are the ten ways; they’re explained in more detail in the article:
Stop [...]
There’s something about Filipino culture that makes every Filipino, deep down, want to be a game show host or entertainer. Think about that for a moment and suddenly my schtick — accordion-playing mixed with blogging and technical evangelism suddenly makes sense.
Take this cultural tendency and mix it with the general preference in the [...]
[Cross posted to Global Nerdy]
Click to see the comic on its original page.
Trust me, kids: learn to play a musical instrument reasonably well before college.
As for accordion playing, the “coolness graph” looks like this:
[Cross-posted to my technical blog, Global Nerdy]
Sometimes I write a blog entry just for the sake of getting a funny title out there. This is one of those times, thanks to this report: Nigerian pupils browse porn on donated laptops.
(With apologies to the fine people at the One Laptop Per Child [...]
On Blogs
This blog got mentioned in a list accompanying an article in today’s Globe and Mail titled It’s not the blogs I hate, it’s their fans. In the article, Ivor Tossell talks about blogging’s image problems on its (contested) tenth anniversary, summing it up with:
People want the same thing from blogs [...]
It was bound to happen: having been translated into just about every living human language, it’s time to translate it into LOLcat-speak:
Photo created by Ted “Not a Blog” Stoltz.Click the photo to see it on its original page.
I’m a little bit busy today, but you won’t leave this blog empty-handed. For your viewing pleasure, I present an entire episode of a terrible television show from the 1970s — Legends of the Superheroes.
I’ll leave it to Movie Poop Shoot to give you a description of the show:
What is LEGENDS [...]
Back during the dot-com bubble, I worked with a programmer who liked to experiment with caffeine. When he wasn’t wasting time and money with interesting computer science theoretical esoterica that didn’t quite pertain to us releasing software on time and on budget, he would try to see how much caffeine he [...]
On last night’s Colbert Report, Colbert did a piece on the current housing slump and a possible solution by way of a study that looks at the “Bohemian/Gay Index” (to which he remarked “that may sound like another name for the San Francisco phone book”).
The study says that artistic, gay and [...]
Back when I first started at Tucows — four years ago last Saturday — they asked me to start a developer blog that featured a mix of articles about programming in general and articles about developing using Tucows’ services. This blog became The Farm, and it received a fair bit of acclaim and [...]
The Internet’s Powers That Be reserved the domain names example.com, example.net and example.org for use in documentation, instructional manuals and the like as example domain names. If you visit them, you’ll get a terse matter-of-fact explanation of what those domains is for on an otherwise blank page.
At Tucows — the [...]
Here’s my current desktop background image: a map of an alternate Earth, where land and water have been switched:
Click the image to see it at full size.Illustration courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
I rather dig the “Philippine Kingdom”, located on the far right of the map, not far from the equator.
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
