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Punk Rock Postcard

Actually, it's not. It's a Reuters photo of a protester at a May Day anti-war protest in London. It's just…

23 years ago

Rite of passage

I'm taking my 18-year old neighbour Hector to his driving license exam this afternoon. He'll be using my Honda CR-V…

23 years ago

Always confirm that you have actually reached the Legal Aid office before discussing your legal problems

Every now and again, I get calls on my cell phone from someone trying to reach Downtown Legal Services. It…

23 years ago

More Atkins reportage

Cancel that chocolate alertIt turns out that the protein bars already have bilingual labels and are not getting stopped at…

23 years ago

Let the Atkins hoarding begin

Updated!It would seem that only some Atkins products lack bilingual labels. See this entry. Here in Canada, there's a law…

23 years ago

Oh yeah, nearly forgot…

In all the confusion and aftermath of having a handful of clients for whom I'm doing programming work and the…

23 years ago

Those poopyheads at Symantec are fudging me over (or: The blogs you can discover by using Technorati)

While it's always been possible to check out who links to me by combing over the logs recorded by my…

23 years ago

"Look. Get towel. Go south."

The old Infocom text adventure game The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy has been converted into a Java applet and put…

23 years ago

Camera shopping

A couple of weeks ago, my trusty Olympus D-320L digital camera met an unfortunate end. It was sitting on a…

23 years ago

Kickass Karaoke — twice this week!

Double the karaoke goodness, double the funKickass Karaoke, the best karaoke night in Accordion City, takes place twice this week:Tomorrow…

23 years ago