The movie sucked, the music was great
My old room-mate and ever-fantastic bela canhoto, in her job-that-is-barely-a-job-because-it-seems-like-too-much-fun at Native Instruments has interviewed Ben Watkins and interviewed Greg Hunter, two of the guys behind the soundtrack of The Matrix Reloaded. I liked the soundtrack a lot. I loathed the movie.
(This is also where I, in the interests of full disclosure, mention that I […]
Tired of being treated like a criminal?
Recently the RIAA decided it would sue the crap out of anyone that it found heavily engaging in online file sharing. These are the same folks that, back in 2002, wanted to add an appendix to anti-terrorism legislation that would have given them the right to hack into your home computer and destroy your data […]
All I wanted was a milkshake, just one milkshake
…and they wouldn’t give it to me.
I’m at Swiss Chalet for breakfast today (it was 1:30 in the afternoon after all) and I decided that a vanilla milkshake would be the perfect beverage of choice for the afternoon. Looking at the menu I notice that Swiss Chalet doesn’t list milkshakes on their menu save for […]
OpenOffice 1.0.3 GM now available
Good news today: the OpenOffice team has released the OpenOffice 1.0.3 GM for Mac OS X, which is pretty damned cool.
OpenOffice is an open-source replacement for the Microsoft Office suite and from my preliminary, ad hoc, “what crap do I have laying around on my hard drive that I can test this against?” tests it […]
Of Paypals, server hacks and email scams
Recently I received three emails purportedly from Paypal requesting that I click a link that would take me to a page where I could validate my personal Paypal information. These emails are fake. It’s a scam designed to get unwary users to give away their Paypal account info (and credit card info?) to someone who […]
Pro-Liberal PC Ads?
Recently the Ontario PC party has been airing an ad attacking the Ontario Liberal party. That’s nothing new, happens all the time in elections. What is unique about this ad is that it’s doing a hell of a good job of swaying me towards the Liberals.
The ad accuses Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty of supporting teacher […]
ob.blog lives
It was only a matter of time. Joey has one, Adam has one, Adina has one, Cory has one… since all the cool kids were doing it I thought I’d go it too.
Welcome to the ob.blog.