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I don't own a cellphone, an iPod, XBox or Playstation. ...and yet my favourite websites are Engadget and Gizmodo. I'm an early non-adopter. ...it's one of my secrets ( Read more... )

Last night I crossed off another item from the to-do list ( Read more... )

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Usually, work is benign - nothing more than a numbing experience. Today was a little different as we were visited by CSIS (Canada's 'Intelligence' agency).


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Rules for Public Places

1. There is ample room for 2 people across on an escalator. If your legs are not moving, stay to the right. Some of us need to get places. ... They don't have this problem in Europe. Signs are posted.

(Just found this on Google. Incredible. Somewhere out there ( Read more... )

My "best friend" (I haven't seen him in something like 2 years) Derek was supposed to come stay with us for a couple of weeks and work on a website he was offered to design for a startup multi-level marketing (read: pyramid scheme) company. That won't happen. It was odd that he was offered the site in the first place, as he has no design ( Read more... )

Rich neighbourhoods have better playgrounds. They've all sorts of strange, foreign equipment. Multi-seat spring-loaded seesaws? Damn ( Read more... )

I hate the music industry. I hate magazine hacks. I hate plagiarism. So basically, Filter can go fuck off. I won't go into details, and honestly, it's something very minor, but I mean c'mon, they're a bunch of 16-yr. olds trying to pass high-school English class by cheating off someone else's paper ( Read more... )

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