It is accomplished.
Sep 29 2007
The Canadian dollar is now worth $1.0052 US. I bought Charlie Parr’s latest album and Greg Brown’s semi-latest album last week thinking I was getting a good deal. But now the Canadian dollar is worth more than the US dollar and I guess it’s going to stay that way for the rest of the weekend, [...]
Sep 27 2007
An amusing, insightful post about “Fuck”. An excerpt: What happens when someone reads the word fuck, anyways? Is there some sort of physical reaction that I don’t know about that deserve such dire warnings? Like when epileptics see blinking lights and go into seizures? Another thing is that whole asterisk substitution thing. Someone will quote [...]
Sep 26 2007
Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon™: This is it – the biggest, most spectacular LEGO® Star Wars model ever! At almost 3 feet (90cm) long, it’s the ultimate centerpiece to any Star Wars collection! $680 Canadian at the LEGO website, but $1,074.95 at amazon.com’s American site. Odd. I hope it comes with a manual. By the way, [...]
Sep 26 2007
Alternatives to da Vinci ‘s The Last Supper. And then there’s The Last Breakfast: (via Friendly Atheist)
Sep 25 2007
As reported on Slashdot, Excel 2007 appears to have a major multiplication bug: The example first that came to light is =850*77.1 — which gives a result of 100,000 instead of the correct 65,535. It seems that any formula that should evaluate to 65,535 will act strangely. Can someone confirm this? I don’t have Excel [...]
Sep 24 2007
Someone should start a campaign to put an end to commemorative coins from the Royal Canadian Mint, especially those useless quarters that most of us don’t notice until we try to use them in a payphone and the damn things don’t work. One look at the latest quarter they’ve put out and I know that [...]
Sep 20 2007
Phillip emailed me the following: i’m looking for a drag-and-drop method of adding images the swt image directory. or some way of selecting an image on the hard drive and uploading loading it without having to got through the hassle of opening filezilla and sorting through all the directories on the server. how do you [...]
Sep 19 2007
I just deleted the 4,000+ emails from my gmail Spam folder. I’m going to check how many spam I get around the same time every day and note it here. You’re welcome. (I’ll probably forget to do it after the second day.) Day 1 (Sept 20): 186 spam in about 24 hours. At that rate [...]