The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century

Rannie, (another cool Toronto Filipino blogger) and Jay have been together for two years. They met over the ‘Net (which you’d think would be a portent of doom), but they’re really well-matched.

Happy anniversary to a handsome couple!

Tonight, Special Beat Services (Electro Polaroid) will be doing both the video and music selections at the Global Pop Conspiracy social. They describe their act as “Past visions of the future, with today’s sounds for tomorrow.”

As always, the socials take place at the Rotors Club, which is at 593a Bloor Street West, just west of Bathurst. It’s a licensed establishment, so you’ve got to be 19 or an even older fart like myself.

By the way, Global Pop Conspiracy also have a two clever mini-blogs on their main page called Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Great links and stories abound!

Karin forwarded me an e-mail message about an event taking place this weekend here in Accordion City: Art Strikes Back. Here are the details:

ART STRIKES BACK: Casualties of the strike

>As you may have heard by now that despite all efforts the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition has been postponed due to the Toronto city workers strike. The new dates are now Aug 31 to September 2 2002 (Labour day weekend.) We will all be looking forward to that event.

Because many people depend on this annual event for significant proportion of their income, several artists will be opening their studios on what was supposed to be the weekend of the TOAE. Among these, 50 artists will be selling their work in one warehouse. A handout of the map of the other studio location will be there.

Saturday, July 13th: 10am to 8pm

Sunday July 14th: 10am to 6pm

376 Dufferin Street

(just south of Queen St.W, at rear entrance)

FREE ADMISSION

For more information contact:

A.W.O.L. Gallery: 416-535-5637

awol@awolgallery.com

www.minivangallery.com/artstrike.htm

The artists selling their work will include: Ron Ackroyd, ryanbarrett, Nurit Basin, Ross Bonfanti, Paul Bourgault, Silvana Bruni, Sean Byrne, Melissa Doherty, Gina Fafard, Jennifer Febbraro, David Fisher, Ken Gangbar, Erin Glover, Scott Griffin, Michael Harrington, Astrid Ho, Jennifer Harrison, Keith Hopkins, Audrey Hudson, Gillian Iles, David Joron, John Kennedy, Casey McGlynn, Rob Malinowski, Jessica Masters, Iza Mokrosz, Julie Moon, Katie Muth, Anthony Randall, Tammy Ratcliff, Amee Dawn Robinson, Moira Roe, Agata Ostrowska, Mike Parsons, Mark Pennock, Ryan Price, Matt Schofield, Janna Segal, Fiona Smyth, Sandra Tarantino, Dale Thompson, Phil Taylor, Natalie Majaba Waldburger, David White, Ehrling White.

My original plans were to go catch the H2K2 hacker conference taking place this weekend in New York, but the demands of work and a plan to zero my credit card balance mean that I’m staying here in town. While I do hope to visit one of my most favourite cities in the world (and one of my most favourite couples in the world) later this summer, it lokks as though I’ll have to switch to plan B. Luckily Toronto’s got lots going on right now, as future posts will attest.

Yup, my DNS woes are over. For the not-so-Internet-technically inclined, it means that you’ll be able to type “kode-fu.com” instead of “www2.cyberpixels.com/~kode” to see this site and its blogs (although either will work). Just give the Internet a day or two to straighten itself out.

Little does young Aaron Swartz realise that I’ve used my accordion mojo to implant my name into his dreams. If he could be turned to the .NET side, he could be a most powerful ally.

In case you’d forgotten, there’s another blog on this site, “The Happiest Geek on Earth”, covering more techie-related stuff. I’ve just added two entries, so if it’s a slow day at work, go check it out!