Archive for November, 2005

A Great Day To Be A Sex Offender In Canada

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Karla Homolka is a household name in Canada. A little more than a decade ago, she and her nymphomanic husband tortured, raped, and killed two schoolgirls. I think Karla’s sister was also attacked at one point.
She is probably the “most notable” criminal of this generation in Canada, and today a court removed all [...]

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Canon Multipass F20 With Windows XP SP2

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The last time I re-installed Windows I had a five-star migraine headache trying to get my printer to install. Unfortunately, I didn’t write down the little trick that I used to make it work. This time I’m putting it in the blog so I can search and find it, and so that other [...]

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Something Hysterical I Just Noticed

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Dell and nVidia both have sponsored advertising in the loading screen of Everquest II.
But you can’t order a Dell with an nVidia video card in it. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

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Duh

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Ever seen what it looks like when somebody is reading a speech off a teleprompter that they didn’t write themselves? Go here and click on the Auto Show video at the bottom.

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I Can Spend It, Yes I Can

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The other day I went for lunch at Wendy’s (actually I was trying to chase someone, but that’s another story - food distracted me). Unbeknownst to me Wendy’s and Coke were running a contest, so I peeled the tab off the side of the beverage I was drinking and found an entry code to [...]

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Thank God It Stays In My Wallet

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My new license photo makes me look like a hitman from the mob.

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The Government Institution That Does Essentially Nothing

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A couple of weeks ago I got one of those automated advertising messages on the phone. It was the most recent in a number of them that I’d received lately. I was pretty sure based on past business experience that this practice was illegal in Canada, so what did I do? I [...]

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