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Archive for March, 2005

Is the subject line clear enough?
Recently due to circumstances beyond my control my Sony MDR-EX51LP headphones ceased to exist. I went to buy a replacement pair and through the “assistance” of some butt-stupid ignorant rude Sony Store employees at the Oshawa Center location, found out that these things are getting incredibly difficult to obtain.
After […]

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Shiloh Means Peace

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

[Editor’s Note: I’m not saying this to toot my horn, but I have written and re-written this article probably 50+ times reaching late into the night last night, and now first thing the next morning. I only collapsed it because it is so long, but please read it at least once. I […]

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A survivalist turtle with the image of Satan on it’s shell.
I wonder if the casino that bought the sandwich is gonna snatch this up. What if the turtle eats the sandwich?
What gets me is how any of these stories get the amount of press that they do. Nobody has physically “seen” the virgin […]

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We Knew It Was Bound To Happen…

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

A Thunderbird release… then a Mozilla release… what could be next?
Mozilla Firebird 1.0.2 - the official browser of poweredbycoffee.net - is available for download.
What does that mean exactly? Glad you asked. If you cry at me that the site doesn’t render properly in Internet Explorer, I laugh at you. That’s what it […]

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How Fitting!

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

A couple of days ago my friend Gene and I were having a discussion on MSN Messenger about the rather startling amount of traffic I get on this domain. “Are you really almost up to post #600?”, he asked. To which I replied “Yup”.
Post 600 was actually the post were I inaugurated “Ici […]

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Mozilla 1.7.6

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

The Mozilla suite, version 1.7.6 has also been released.

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You Know You’re Sick When…

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005

You’re running a fever of 100-101.
It takes two hours for 800 mg of Advil to kick in.
You’re coughing so often and so hard that your chest hurts when you cough.
Extra strength Benylin for dry chest coughs does nada.

But the weird thing is - aside from the coughing - when the drugs do kick in, I […]

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