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Archive for August, 2003

Monday Gets A Head Start

Sunday, August 31st, 2003

4 outta 6 numbers in a lottery that gets me nothing.
Remember the logo competition closes at midnight.
I’m outta here.

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Just A Little Over 24 Hours Left

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

There is just a little over 24 hours left in the poweredbycoffee.net logo competition.
Get out those tablets, get out that old copy of PC Paintbrush. (OMG, I just dated myself). If you’ve had a half-cooked design sitting “on the back burner” you’d better turn up the heat because the deadline is fast approaching. […]

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Time To Dump Trillian

Saturday, August 30th, 2003

Neowin has an interesting story telling how Microsoft is going after Trillian for licensing fees before they lock them out of the network completely on October 15th.
I can’t wait to see all the little Trillian users running around like chickens with their heads cut off yelling “The sky is falling!! The sky is falling!!”
One […]

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Neowin

Friday, August 29th, 2003

Neowin - the site that sucks but doesn’t.
Down for almost four days while they “restore their site” after it was accidentally erased.
Anyway. They’re back. But their most recent article at the time of this posting is dated July 20th, 2003. I suspect they have more “restoring” to do.
If ya can’t run with […]

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Chinese Tattoos

Friday, August 29th, 2003

We’ve all seen them. Those “instant tattoo” parlours at special events.
You might want to read this.

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Big Surprise in IRC Land

Friday, August 29th, 2003

mIRC 6.1 has been released. Go get it.
And yes, the dreaded default browser bug is fixed.
YAY!

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Fifteen Day Blogging Streak Broken

Friday, August 29th, 2003

I’m so upset. I broke my streak. Now there’s a little grey hole in my sea of yellow on the archive calendar. Sniff sniff.
The Pontiac Of Doom™ lives again, after a fairly extensive exhaust job. Thank goodness the catalytic was salvagable. It was interesting to note - for the benefit of […]

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