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ThirtySexy: Your first warning

Mark it on your calendars: Saturday, November 8th, 2003.

My friend from Crazy Go Nuts University, Ashley Bristowe and I have the same birthday: November 5th. We’ve had three joint birthday parties before and we’re doing it again. It’ll be my 36th and Ashley’s I-don’t-know-whath. It will be held at my swanky house, and given the current situation, it will probably be the last party of mine held there.

My estimate is that at peak, we had 120 people in the house at my last birthday party. If you’re really looking to procrastinate at work, you’ll enjoy the series of photos taken at that bash.

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Sold! Wait, not sold. Wait…

The sale of my house by my landlord has taken some strange twists. I got a call this weekend, saying that it had been bought. Followed by another call, saying that the buyers had backed out. Now, the buyers want a second look tomorrow morning. I’d just like to get it over with so that I know whether I need to begin the house hunt or not.

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BloggerCon notes coming up soon

Today, as usual, is another busy day here at Tucows — I’m taking care of Blogware’s online documentation all afternoon (chek it often, as I’m updating it often). However, to whet your appetite, here are just a couple of photos of me and the Boss Man:

Photo: Ross Rader and me at Joi Ito's session at BloggerCon.

Photo: Ross Rader and me at Joi Ito's session at BloggerCon.

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What not to let your kid wear for Hallowe’en this year

Photo: Mop-haired blonde kid in a purple faux fur pimp suit with zebra trim.

Meryle pointed this one out to me: Child Pimp Suits. I suppose you could also have your kid watch American Pimp to get the lingo right.

And don’t forget: you can make candy crack by putting miniature marshmallows into little plastic vials!

Photo: Crack cocaine, in 'rock' form.

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Attention Californians!

You might be wondering what happens when an substance-abusing, womanizing, mispronouncing former movie action hero gets elected to a position of leadership.

As we say in the Philippines: been there, done that.

But damn, the man had quite a Wayne Newton pompadour!

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My work here is done [UPDATED]

Yes, Bloggercon was a success. Yes, I finally got to meet and have some face time with some of the people behind the blogs and the IRC nicknames. Yes, I got to show Blogware to a number of people and learn about what they wanted in their blogging software. Yes, I got invited to play accordion at the closing session (Thanks, Dave!). Yes, I’m coming back home with a ton of ideas and all fired up to make cool software.

All that pales to this: I stealth discoed Dave Winer.

See the video (408K QuickTime).

Update: I forgot to mention that Ryan “Skadz” Skadberg took the video for me. Thanks, Ryan!

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Now in Beantown

I have arrived in Boston and am killing time until the various dinners held by various Bloggercon luminaries take place later on tonight. I’m entering this from the HOTEL@MIT’s business center; it’s going to be a couple of hours until my room is ready, so I think I’ll poke my nose around and try and catch what they call “local flavour”. Maybe some clam chow-dahh too.

I just got off the phone with Boris, who’s driving down here from Montreal. He’s just crossed the border, so I figure he should be here by dinner. Look out, Beantown, Trouble Incorporated is about to hold a meeting in your city!

Anyone for a beer somewhere in Cambridge, either this afternoon or tomorrow evening? I’m reachable via phone at (416) 948-6447.

In the meantime, I’m going to look up and down Mass Ave and see what’s happening.