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Click the photo to see Doc’s original posting.

Don’t worry, I’m going to be urging you to vote in the more important

Canadian federal election taking place on January 23rd, 2006.

However, in the meantime, I encourage you to vote for Accordion Guy in Round Two of the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards under the category “Best Blog”. Voting runs from now until the end of Friday.

Here’s an enticement: a slideshow of my 2003 hot tub party, and the promise of an untold tale from that bash tomorrow. Do we have a deal?

I’m giving Michael Kalus, a regular reader and commenter on this blog, a hand.

If you’re looking for a Solutions Architect who’s worked as:

• An architect at Telus for Accenture where he was:
• Lead architect for the IT Governance Center
• Lean architect for the Borland CaliberRM
• Application architect for the iWay Server
• Architect for SMIS
• Solutions architect / Capacity planner for Rogers Shared Services (now Rogers Shared Operations)
• Solutions architect / Senior Unix engineer for Research in Motion
• Senior Unix architect / Systems engineer for Bell ExpressVu
• Infrastructure architect / Systems engineer for Opensoft

…then he just might fit the bill! If you’re hiring and the list above has piqued your interest, here’s his resume [74K, Word document].

One of the nice things about being given free rein to write tutorials

for Tucows services is that I can create my own graphics, like this one:

I use this graphic over at the Blogware blog where I demonstrate how to turn your plain jane text blog title into a beautiful graphic title. If you have a Blogware-based blog (such as one hosted at BlogHarbor or Blogzerk) and are looking to spruce up your blog, go read this article!

I’m in Round Two of the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards under the category “Best Blog”. Voting runs from now until the end of Friday. If you like this blog, please vote for Accordion Guy!

[via _highatus] If you’ve

ever wandered around the “pop” section of your local record store,

you’ve probably stumbled across the compilation series Now That’s What I Call Music! Back when I was a DJ at Crazy Go Nuts University’s Clark Hall Pub,

these compilations of top 40 cliche-pop saved me from having to buy a

large number of CDs I couldn’t care less about but needed for some

crowd-pleasing singles (I drew the line at the Grease Megamix, however).

If there were a similar compilation for blogs, here’s what it would look like:

Click the image to see it at full size.

Try saying that quickly three times: “Oddball Microsoft Korean Flash Promo.” Tricky, huh?

While you’re trying to do that, see if you can wrap your head around

this Korean Flash animation which I believe extols the virtues of

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. For all I know it may just extol the virtues of getting hammered on soju and dancing in furry pants with your co-workers. Anyhow, you

don’t have to speak Korean or be a programmer to appreciate the

kookiness of the promo…

Looks like the Christmas party at the deVilla residence!

This is what coding in VB.NET feels like.

(If you’d like to see the Flash animation in its original context, go here.)