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Archive for November, 2006
More Upgrades that Suck: Yahoo TV, Part 2
In: Life
30 Nov 2006Just went online and thought I would share the Yahoo TV comments so far.
Rushi’s Ramblings
Jason Blogs
Paul Kedrosky
Dave Winer
RowdyData
Oh, and my comments.
Yahoo, please give us an opt-out on this monstrosity. Or better yet, do a complete rollback.
Technorati Tags: Yahoo, Yahoo+TV, Bad+Design, Web+2.0, Bad+upgrade
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Interesting Google Reader Error
In: Life
30 Nov 2006Google Reader gave me this error this morning.
Interesting and perplexing.
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Upgrades that Suck: Yahoo TV
29 Nov 2006Looks like Yahoo TV upgraded overnight.
Guess I will get my TV schedule information from other sources now.
DHTML/AJAX Schedule is slow and confusing.
Front page looks like a Flash designer got lucky — Look at all the dancing images!
Complex, complicated, and visually disturbing.
Oh, and no option to downgrade to the original, functional version.
All I want is the [...]
Here we go again
29 Nov 2006I wrote this in December 2004.
A lot of things have changed since then. And a lot has remained immobile.
I don’t know whether to add creative burnout to the raging fire I now know is Bipolar, or to see it as a part of a more general work-related malaise.
I need to talk to a few more people [...]
Snowstorm — Victoria, BC — November 2006
In: Life
28 Nov 2006A photo of the Causeway (in front of the Empress Hotel) in Victoria, BC after the Sunday/Monday snowstorm.
Snow in Victoria is pretty rare. Snow that sticks is even more rare.
Picture by Darren Stone — Victoria Times-Colonist
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Skype: One month left….
27 Nov 2006Here in North America, we have a little over a month left in our free Skype-2-North America phone service. (here)
I’m addicted. I will pay whatever they want me to so I can keep calling US phone numbers from one application.
And I can’t figure out why more people in the US and Canada still don’t use [...]
Maine: Sweetgrass Winery — Under Construction
In: Life
24 Nov 2006Up here in Maine, wineries are done the old-fashioned way. Back-breaking physical labour. Check out these photos of construction on the winery part of the winery (here).
However, the nicely framed and hospitable winery space has another side: The old barn with the trench down the middle. Well, yesterday it had a trench. After two days [...]
Maine: Digging a hole, and filling it
In: Life
23 Nov 2006So, how did you spend your Thanksgiving Day?
Keith is installing the run-off / septic tank for the Winery. Last week, in the heavy rains, the hole it was in filled with water and the tank was bobbing up and down in a pit of muck.
Now that the muck has been drained, he needed to make [...]
Going North
In: Life
22 Nov 2006So, we’re packing up the minivan and heading for the idyllic wilds of Maine for the Holiday weekend.
I will have connectivity, but frankly, there will be too much going on with five kids, four adults, a dog, and a flock of sheep (no sheep-human interaction! You people are sick!) to be online much.
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Skype, Skype, Skype, Skype…OH! Wonderful Skype!
In: Life| Skype| Technology| Work| smp
20 Nov 2006Over the next 12-18 months, my plan is to move to working from home more. Like, 100% of the time, when I’m not travelling. To help accomplish this, and to free myself from the servitude to the Telcos, I have started to migrate almost exclusively to Skype for my work communication.
In this area, I bought [...]