November 2002 Archives

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eBaynham.com...


Erm.. excuse me for a second...

Mobile High Speed solutions for Mac OS I think I may just have made a mess of meself... ;)...


Gimme gimme!

I want a combination Apple iPod and SonyEricsson T68i (WITH the "CommunicCAM" camera... and why not a CHA-30 digital pen). First let's mention the obvious reasons: one device for portable music, cellphone, contacts, calendaring, file storage and little digital pictures....


More blog/google/stats fun!

Technorati: Web Services for bloggers....


Number one in germany for rez trans vibrator pics!

Google-Suche: rez trans vibrator pic Ißt das das "Google-effect"? Oder eine "Google -bombe"?...


XBEL pleeeaaase!

It seems we'll need to evangelise XBEL to the folks at Mozilla and at (gulp) Microsoft. Oh how I would love it if Mozilla and IE allowed me to store all my bookmarks and borwser histories in XBEL format in...


MySQL Explained to Frontier Users

Or vice versa......


Mac OS Finder Thing

Daring Fireball: That Finder Thing Brilliantly explained. I wasn't consciously aware how unhappy I was with the OS X Finder until I read this. I just, as he says) figured it was some buggyness that will eventually go away......


Sleeplessness

Because sniffles asked for people's experiences with various degrees of insomnia... :) I am one of these low metabolism people... If I don't keep myself in check I could possibly sleep my life away as a hunk of flesh comfortably...


Full body scanner

This is way cool... A full-sized scanner on which you lie down... for about $20 you get a 4' X 6' printout... (link by way of Justin)...


"Furthermore"

From Wired News' "Furthermore" database: More on Bush...


Give this man a beer!!

John's Switch to Canada Well done. Well done. ;)...


Verdammt!!!

cnn_iraq.jpg 640x480 pixels Iraq has invaded germany!!!...


theme music

linenoise - fun...


Somebody's "idealistic" take on it...

Dreams, thoughts, plans....


Copyright shmopyright

Apple and the Pirate Everyman Read it, and posted the following comment: 1- I have at this moment a 20Gig library of MP3s, 99% of which come from the 'net or friend's CDs. My computer is plugged directly into my...


And awaaaay we gooo!

Segway Human Transporter on sale now at Amazon... Must ... resist... urge......


Dedication

I dedicate any and all endeavors I may yet accomplish to my father and mother. To my father, the memory of whose sparse use of words, humility, patience and honesty are a life-long inspiration to learn, teach and seek the...


Communication / Learning via patterns

Arranging data objects in a pattern. Learning to speak/understand a language this way. specific sound pattern = meanings specific sound pattern -> reference of experience (read out loud, sounding out each "aural data object" [syllable] slowly, repeat each line at...


Wheels within wheels.

--> Ten years ago, the summer between highschool and CEGEP (a college-like construct of the Quebec education system... essentially it represents 2-3 years between highschool and university) I spent in my '83 Subaru GL in the parking lot of...


Perfect Memory

About a month ago I started thinking about developping a web-based system for myself which I dubbed "Perfect Memory"... The idea being that I would start capturing any and all text based communication (emails, instant messages), writings (quick thoughts, articles,...


Strings attached

lordofthemarionette.com Ok this kid has attitude, but scroll down and click on "See the lord in Action".. It's a 20Meg Quicktime .mov that is well worth the download... dancing marionettes! Wikkidly done....


Jaunt to Toronto

I am off to Toronto tomorrow till Thursday. I have one friend in TO and I hardly expect him to be at my beck and call sooo... If anyone wants to hook up for a coffee/drink/meal/walk and chat about whatever...


Mei Wah

A quick guide to reading chinese menus. (By way of Karl. Thanks Karl! :)...


Radio

Oh wow. I played with Userland Radio yesterday. Userland Frontier as well. Very powerful stuff, and very complex, but it essentially represents half of my Perfect Memory concept. I'd go into details but I'm not here to document these softwares......


Yahoo! Top Stories - Not so Fab-io

Too damn funny...


Quotes from Naz

Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid. - Heinrich Heine Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others. - Groucho Marx It was a blonde. A blonde to make...


Sartre's Cookbook

Brilliant....


Sugar Daddy

About 2 weeks ago I ran out of sugar. The regular white granular kind. Not a huge surprise but nothing I had anticipated either seeing as I barely use sugar at all. In fact I use it almost exclusively for...


Ok I'm still new to this bit but...

I just poked around with Apple's iCal and AddressBook.. and well... yeah bravo they are using the "open standard" (are they?) VCARD and ICS formats respectively... But... but... I mean I cracked these files open (they are text files after...


Hear me cry

I'm hurting inside When I was just a little child happiness was there a while then from me it slipped one day happiness come back I say cause if you don't come I've got to go looking for happiness well...


Quick thought

"Time is the corkboard to which we pin the events of our lives." Date and time stamps are essential for perfect memory for they add a useful and universally accepted dimension to the indexing and searching features of our mind....


Now we're talking

O'Reilly Network: Speakable Web Services [Nov. 08, 2002] Mr.Udell has the right idea, which is nothing new of course. What I want is dictation though... way more than mere voice control....


Free-association

c-1.JPG 650x898 pixels Woooooooo......


It's all true.

Googlism : ?ism=boris "I've heard so much about you!"...


It cause brain lesions you know...

Student Suspended Over Suspected Use of PHP Hehehehe...


Oh, just to be there...

O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2003 Would be damn nice....


Let me write that down...

(I was debating whether or not I should give the full context of this line, and decided that I will give a minimal explanation here, and the full context will appear in a comment to this posting.) Heard on a...


I, Rowboat

The Onion | I, Rowboat Now why did I not think of this?...


trans-duction

Google's translation service does a half decent job. Ok ok, half half decent... Half half half decent. I especially like what it does with my haikus......


XMail or XMbox ?

I'm trying to pull together some of the very knowledgeable resources I have to try to get an XML DTD for mail off the ground... The currenly widely used "mbox" standard is just screeeaaaming to be put into XML... Francis?...


La fourmi et la sauterelle: Redux

A fairly accurate allegory of life in America. i'd say....


Google Search: Rebel Flag Vibrator

I'm number one! I'm number one! I am still waiting for someone to explain this to me......


Zed "haiku"

Hehe So that CBC show/website/multimedia hipster circus/zoo put out a call to submit haikus. Here are my entries. solid state circuit board feeds quickly on names, numbers. electronic you. electromagnetic attraction binds....


Now I've done it...

I caved in, plunked down the plastic and now own a 10Gig iPod. It's cute... The interface is... acceptable considering the constraints. I'll have to completely re-jig how I deal with my huge MP3 collection, as well as my contacts...


truth and lies?

(originally posted as a comment on Dandruff. ) The very first thing I did the very first time I sat at a computer with DTP sofware (Aldus Pagemaker), was print out a sheet which looked very much like this and...


Holy General Tao chicken!!

China turns its back on communism to join long march of the capitalists What shall we make of this? Wow....


Google, a strange beast are you...

As a "web specialist" I have often been burdened by clients' requestes to get their websites high rankings on search engines, etc... Futsing with meta tags, massaging content to be spider-friendly, submitting and submitting and submitting.. always to medium if...


Oh... my... god...

game girl advance: Sex in Games: Rez Vibrator I am ... speechless.. dumbfounded... no words can I find......


Shopping with conviction

Farha Foundation - ::Au Coeur de la Mode:: - Montrealplus.ca Great clothes, great prices, for a great cause....


YUL!

Sooooo... The Queen of Lazy Webmasters has finally updated the YUL list and lo and behold there I am. Thank you Bill, if that's your real name... (Willhelmina? Hmmm)...


Save MY money?

Ok... So I got an ING Direct savings account cause that dutch guy just so inspires confidence. Save YOUR money! Anyhoot. Today I recieved my ING Direct debit card, sos I can get to MY money from any Interac terminal....