Archive for September, 2005

The “Other” Annual Canadian Fast Food Tradition

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Well the first one is obviously Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroll Up The Rim to win at Tim Hortons.
The one I’m talking about today is Monopoly at McDonalds. Yep, it’s back. I just found the flyer (with the game board) in Wednesdays paper. The prizes are pretty unimaginative but as always I will bet you that [...]

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Subtle Signs Your Business May Not Be Appreciated As Much As They Say

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I am reminded of the television program “Frasier” that was quite popular a few years ago. In fact, I watched it quite a bit myself. One of the regular “sets” in the program, besides the apartment set and the radio station set, was the CafĂ© Nervosa set. I’ve got one of those [...]

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Would You Believe…. Don Adams Is Dead

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My daily routine when I was a kid - I’m thinking Grades 3 to 6 - was pretty simple. Get up, have breakfast, go to school, and then come home to my parents furniture and appliance store and “hang around” until closing at 5:30pm. It was never much of a bother, because I [...]

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Really Cool

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Google Maps is obviously the coolest thing since sliced bread. They’ve taken the whole “maps on the Internet” thing and really “coolified” it.
They now have new satellite imagery of the New Orleans area since Hurricane Katrina. If you go there and go to New Orleans, in addition to the usual Map/Satellite/Hybrid choices, you [...]

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A Neat Little Toy

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I’m listening to a podcast talking about MuvAudio. Basically the unspoken idea here is that you subscribe to a service like Yahoo Music and listen to all the music you want and Muvradio will “capture” it into an mp3.
Hmmmmm.

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Once Around The Park…

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Limo 001

Originally uploaded by netnomad.

For some reason seeing a limosine in front of a Tim Horton’s struck me as funny. Especially in Oshawa.

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Opera Now Totally Free

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Hot on the heels of their free registration giveaway to celebrate their anniversary, the Opera web browser is now - finally - completely free.
Read about and download it here.

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