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My wife doesn’t understand my fascination with Hunter Thompson. There are only a select few who do.
What most people don’t understand is that living with manic bipolar is living with Hunter inside your head every day. Raging. Screaming. Shooting at the peacocks while the sun rises. Spraying my optic nerve with a rogue fire extinguisher. [...]
I try and avoid the “me-too” factor that has dominated the land of blogs for most of the time I have been involved in it. Simply aping one persons comments with a slight variation, or personal interpretation doesn’t add much to the initial thrill of finding the original germ of an idea.
Kathy Sierra, someone who [...]
In: Life
17 Jan 2007When I lived in Victoria, BC, there was always a ship idling in the harbour, engine turning over, a low steady hum that was always there when you went to the water.
Well, they have built an on-shore power plant for that ship, and it looks like they may have brought in a new one, but [...]
In: Life| RANTING| Technology
16 Jan 2007Ok, now that I have your attention…
Nissan has a test program in Japan that is placing receivers in cars to alert drivers when children wearing special RFID/WiFi bracelets are in the area. This is supposedly for the protection of the children. [here]
Do you see a few problems with this, mainly due to the naivete of [...]
In: Life
14 Jan 2007It’s the places that you go when you’re a child that stay with you for your whole life.
My grandparents lived their entire lives in the Crowsnest Pass. This narrow, sometimes forgotten section of the Rockies emptied itself of its coal to feed the engines of Canada and the world for more than a hundred years.
My [...]
In: Life
14 Jan 2007In Victoria, BC, double-decker buses have been used as tourist icons of a faux-english heritage for many years.
Here is what happens when these wonderful old beasts outlive their usefulness.
They deserve a better fate than this.
Technorati tags: Flickr, double-decker bus, victoria bc, victoria, tourist
Apparently there’s quite the blizzard pounding Colorado. [here and here]
And your point is…?
Remember:
You live at 3,000 ft and above
Those big rocky and pointy things in your backyard? They might have some effect on the weather
It’s Winter…well, officially tomorrow
I gew up in the Rocky Mountain Trench. After November 1st, it’s not if, it’s when the snow [...]
When we lived in California (1999 – 2003), the CrazyCanuck-mobile had the following vanity plate.
Likely only Canadians will get it.
After a few months using the Microsoft Live Writer, I am giving the Performancing Blogging Extension for Firefox another try. Just seems more natural that since I use Firefox as my daily work platform, I should use it for everything.
Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Live Writer, Performancing
Yesterday, I read Anne Zelenka’s post on ROWE at Best Buy. I was heartened to see that this idea was getting mentioned again, and that it was getting front-page interest from Big Media.
On a lark, I forwarded the post to my director and VP. Their responses frightened me. They were written in management-ese, and indicated [...]