ISSN 1496-3221
January 5, 2004
It’s one thing to have someone examine your package, but it’s an entirely different matter when they leave you a note attached to it. Ba-da-boom. But seriously folks, it’s nice to see that the Canadian customs agents are keeping our country safe from heinous import goods such as cotton-blend t-shirts and Styrofoam® packing material. Those … More
December 21, 2003
Just a quick update to my previous widget clicking post. Ok, so maybe it wasn’t such a wondrous discovery after all. Kevin Conboy from Alternate.org pointed out that command-clicking the toolbar widget to change views has “…been around since 10.0, except 10.0 didn’t have the small icon view(s)…” as illustrated in this post of his … More
December 20, 2003
I’ve been running Panther for a full week on my Mac at the office. Needless to say, I’m tremendously impressed by the increase in speedi-quickness. Application launches are almost nearly as fast as they were under OS 9 for programs like BBEdit. Finally. But as with any change or update, there comes the part about … More
December 16, 2003
On this day last year, my mom collapsed due to a massive aneurysm and subsequent intracranial hemorrhage. At the time, we all thought that we’d be saying goodbye to her before Christmas arrived. We didn’t say goodbye, but we prayed a lot. Other people prayed a lot too. We appreciated that. We also appreciated all … More
December 14, 2003
 This is a summary of the currently state of my digits as of the second week of December. As you can see from the accompanying image, many of them have seen slightly better days. I offer for your perusal the following documentation: Residual discolouration from a blood blister caused by embedding fork tine under left-hand … More
December 9, 2003
Partially frozen river edge. Louise Bridge, Calgary.
December 6, 2003
No, I’m not talking about the band or typographic Batman trivia. The word on the street is all about Veer’s creative slug-fest, Lightboxing. Yes, this was a promotional plug for my place of employ. Want to make something of it, punk?
December 3, 2003
This server was temporarily offline this evening while I did a bit of minor maintenance and ran the venerable Norton Disk Doctor through its paces. Don’t worry, it was good OS 9 Norton — not evil OS X Norton. And at the end of the day, the best part is that it didn’t find anything … More
November 30, 2003
Just freaking wonderful. I try to send a few email replies this afternoon, and what happens? I get pummeled by a slew of bounce backs indicating that my ADSL provider has just had its outbound mail server blocked by the freaking Open Relay Database. There was no mention of it on the Nucleus system status … More
November 28, 2003
Trade show display in reception area. Calgary.