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Archive for November, 2006

“The Great Firewall of Canada”

Friday, November 24th, 2006

It just confounds me. A bunch of Canadian ISP’s have decided to start filtering “child pornography sites”. Great idea? I wonder.
Am I opposed to child pornography? Absolutely. 100%
Do I think these idiots have the competency to administer such a list of sites? Not in a million years. Quite […]

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Forget The Transmission, What About The Brakes?

Thursday, November 23rd, 2006

I’m sure Volkswagon is going to make a commercial out of this.

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Ooooooh!

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

The Toronto Star gets this week’s “Stating The Obvious” award for publishing this article revealing that Canadian tourists find American border agents treat them with “arrogance, rudeness, and disrespect”.
Not surprising that the mortally wounded spokesman for the border guards refuted this survey calling it unfounded and false.  He’s obviously never tried to get into his […]

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It Was Joyous, While It Lasted

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

People who regularly comment (which is most of you), this doesn’t affect you.
People who might feel the urge to suddenly comment for the first time, it may be a while before I moderate your comments. Somehow I’ve ended up on the receiving end of a tsunami of blog spam. They must have figured […]

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Would I Buy A Zune?

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Justin, just skip this article. It’s for the good of your health. Honestly.
Would I buy a Zune? I might.
I’m feeling a little deserted by Apple lately. The 7.x release of iTunes has been CRAP since it was released. It continues to be choppy on older computers. It’s gotten to […]

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Heh

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Somebody was a little miffed at this. I don’t know why.

And that was Washington…

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Portable Audio Nut Are I

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006

Everybody who knows me personally and knows me well makes fun of me. I have more sets of headphones than some audio stores. Since moving into this house and having to deal with lifeforms that are less evolved on the evolutionary scale (i.e. don’t share my taste in music) I can no longer […]

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