postal-code.com slowly coming back online
Last week I inadvertently let the postal-code.com domain lapse. All day Friday I was treated to watching the DNS expire, as reported by various people in various places. Today postal-code.com has been renewed and is slowly propogating outwards again.
If you sent me email this weekend, try again. It ought to go through this time.
Two bytes are in a bar. One says to the other, “I’m not feeling that well. I think I have a parity error”. The other byte responds, “I thought you looked a bit off!”
A man is standing on a hilltop when a man riding in a hot air balloon drifts by. The man in the balloon yells down: “Hello! Do you know where I am?” The man on the ground replies: “In a hot air balloon.” The man in the balloon says: “You must work in Information Technology. [...]
Someone else’s movie review: The Last Samurai
Adina reviews The Last Samurai far better than I ever could in: synopsis for movie i have not seen.
I’m moving!
It’s time for me to move. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in taking over 1200 sq. feet of studio loft space in downtown Toronto for Jan 01, 2004, let me know.
Read this blog
Some of you might think I spend all day just bumming around reading blogs and shit and pretending to work really hard. Not true - Pineapple finds stuff for me and I just follow its lead.
This is the first blog that made me laugh out loud, twice, from the very first two posts I read: [...]
The stench of fear
You know the music industry’s business model in serious trouble when it resorts to such pathetic, last-ditch efforts as this:
A group representing Canada’s songwriters will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to force Internet service providers to pay them royalties for the millions of digital music files downloaded each year by Canadians.
The case has broad [...]
Dear PureTracks…
I really want to like PureTracks a lot because I live in Canada and for numerous reasons, most of which stem from the Canadian music distribution industry’s inability to get its own head out of its ass, the iTunes Music Store is unavailable here. That leaves us PureTracks.
But damn they’re making it hard to like [...]
Dear George
It’s turning out to be George W. day here, but not on purpose. Over on Mad Pony I stumbled across Dear George, a brilliant bit of subtle satire well worth thumbing through.
Its easy to subscribe to the global stereotypes Americans are painted with and apply them blanket-like to 250 million people. Dear George is a [...]
Googlebombing
Googling for “miserable failure” brings up the biography of George W Jr. as it’s first hit. Why? Because lots of people linked to him with that and thus Google’s PageRank system intractably united the two forever more.
This is known as a Googlebomb and this one has scored a direct hit.