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Over at the Tucows Blog, I’ve just posted a podcast about Tucows’ new-and-improved email service in which I interview:

• Elliot Noss, Tucows’ president and CEO
• Kim Phelan, Director of Product Management
• Rick Yazwinski, Director of Technical Operations and Planning

The podcast is the first in a series of posts that I’ll be making on Tucows’ email service over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting all sorts of things — articles, podcasts, interviews and diagrams — on Tucows’ email service, its features and the underlying technology.

Sunday was the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s breaking the colour barrier in Major League Baseball. In his honour, I present a collection of photos from those days, courtesy of my file trading friend, Miss Fipi Lele.

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Andre Fenton dressed up for his “Millennipalooza” bash, which took place ar Zamek Roztez, Czech Republic, on December 31, 1999.

Before he was Dr. Andre Fenton, noted neurobiologist, he was just Andre, my friend from high school and valedictorian of our graduating class. I took the photo above while attending “Millennipalooza”, a New Year’s Eve party he hosted on December 31, 1999. He somehow managed to get his hands on Zamek Roztez, a.k.a. Roztez Chateau, a stately manor located about an hour’s drive outside Prague. It was one helluva New Year’s Eve gathering, with about 60 or so of us each pitching in for a vacation that featured a 24-hour buffet, a bar that made mojitos on demand, a New Year’s Eve ball with dinner, dancing and fireworks at midnight. Andre has always been a master at throwing a party.

(I should post photos from “Millennipalooza”. It was a great party.)

He’s also a noted neuroscience guy, and as a recent article in Nature states, he’s figured out how to wipe out a single, specific memory from lab rats.

Here’s an interesting side-effect of the story appearing in Nature: despite the fact that the technique has been tested only on rats (who can’t be interviewed to determine if the procedure has some subtle side effects), he’s said that a number of people have tried to get him to erase memories of certain (presumably painful) events in their lives.

Via Consumerist, here’s a Saturday Night Live skit that a lot of people really need to watch:

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Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

So long, and thanks for all the wonderful reading. (And yes, even Galapagos. I thought it was all right.)

I had no idea that another movie version of Get Smart was in the works, with Steve Carell playing Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as Agent 99.

The casting gives me hope that it’ll be at least a half-decent movie. Someone observed that had this movie been made five years ago, they probably would’ve cast Jim Carrey as Maxwell Smart, and it would’ve stunk to high heaven.