Centro-matic: Recovery
Danko Jones: Sleep Is The Enemy
Dead Kennedys: Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Evil Doers: Welcome to the Show
The Fall: The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 [Disc Two]
The Hives: Barely Legal
Refused: The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in Twelve Bursts
The Strokes: First Impressions of Earth
Thrice: The Artist and the Ambulance
Up, Bustle and Out: Rebel Radio
Saturday, April 22, 2006
A foul and dreich Saturday...
...It must be April.
Figures, the week was golden. Of ourse the weekend should be crap. After all, it *is* April, and the rain's going to fall sometime.
Alright, what's the deal with the CBC... last year it was announced that they had purchased the rights to the second series of Doctor Who in addition to the Christmas Invasion. Where are these episodes? Last year, we were only a week out of step with the English on this. I really would prefer not to hear we'll be waiting for the fall...
Well, apparently it may well be in the fall. Based on what I can Google, it isn't going to be anytime soon [link may be stale]. Ah well, we're still ahead of the rest of the world outside the British Isles in this respect.
No props to the CBC for delaying the air date (or the BBC if the dealy is part of the distribution deal) - this will cause fans to grab all the episodes they can on torrents.
Update: June 20th seems to be the unofficial date for CBC to start showing series 2.
Figures, the week was golden. Of ourse the weekend should be crap. After all, it *is* April, and the rain's going to fall sometime.
Alright, what's the deal with the CBC... last year it was announced that they had purchased the rights to the second series of Doctor Who in addition to the Christmas Invasion. Where are these episodes? Last year, we were only a week out of step with the English on this. I really would prefer not to hear we'll be waiting for the fall...
Well, apparently it may well be in the fall. Based on what I can Google, it isn't going to be anytime soon [link may be stale]. Ah well, we're still ahead of the rest of the world outside the British Isles in this respect.
No props to the CBC for delaying the air date (or the BBC if the dealy is part of the distribution deal) - this will cause fans to grab all the episodes they can on torrents.
Update: June 20th seems to be the unofficial date for CBC to start showing series 2.
Friday, April 21, 2006
"C'mon Universe hold still..."
Yeah... that's not going to happen.
NewScientistSpace reports that (yet another) one of the fundamental constants of the universe may be changing over time.
NewScientistSpace reports that (yet another) one of the fundamental constants of the universe may be changing over time.
As we approach Earth Day...
...more and more people are showing themselves to be short-sighted fucking idiots.
Autopia's (Wired blogs) author seems to have noticed the same disturbing trend I have seen: people love Hummers.
The vehicles, wiseasses.
Fortunately I worked internal IT for years and have known for quite some time that people can, in fact, be extremely short-sighted fucking idiots, which spares me the utter shock and horror that I may have suffered had this been a revelation to me.
He also points out that the Honda Accord hybrid has some serious failings. Well, not failings, but certainly nothing to recommend it.
Autopia's (Wired blogs) author seems to have noticed the same disturbing trend I have seen: people love Hummers.
The vehicles, wiseasses.
Fortunately I worked internal IT for years and have known for quite some time that people can, in fact, be extremely short-sighted fucking idiots, which spares me the utter shock and horror that I may have suffered had this been a revelation to me.
He also points out that the Honda Accord hybrid has some serious failings. Well, not failings, but certainly nothing to recommend it.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
We were somewhere around Redmond...
...when the news took hold.
EWeek reports that Microsoft hasn't been practicing full disclosure, a policy that has had some consequences for other software and security vendors.
The ethical and practical debate of full disclosure versus controlled disclosure is not a new topic, but always makes for an interesting conversation.
The ripple effect of the example cited in the article is not inconsequential, either.
EWeek reports that Microsoft hasn't been practicing full disclosure, a policy that has had some consequences for other software and security vendors.
The ethical and practical debate of full disclosure versus controlled disclosure is not a new topic, but always makes for an interesting conversation.
The ripple effect of the example cited in the article is not inconsequential, either.
I was a blog-fiction sysadmin...
...that was based on an earlier, angrier version of me.
I'm much better now, but whenever I read the pages in question it makes me laugh.
Well, I'm busy as hell right now but I have to say I'm pretty happy about it.
I'm developing training materials for some courses my employer is offering and I'm proofing a translation of a friend's project.
Yet, I'm making good progress on both and I still have time to live life, cook, buy groceries, be a social human being, etc...
I'm really not used to this kind of balance. But I'm trying to become accustomed to it.
I'm much better now, but whenever I read the pages in question it makes me laugh.
Well, I'm busy as hell right now but I have to say I'm pretty happy about it.
I'm developing training materials for some courses my employer is offering and I'm proofing a translation of a friend's project.
Yet, I'm making good progress on both and I still have time to live life, cook, buy groceries, be a social human being, etc...
I'm really not used to this kind of balance. But I'm trying to become accustomed to it.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
El mundo es un pañuelo
In the last few months I have run into a ridiculous number of friends and acquaintances that I have not seen for years...
Odd. But I'm not complaining.
It's truly odd how people turn up in the damndest places... a phenomenon I first became aware of when I was standing outside of Victoria Station in London and ran into two women I knew from Laurier who were also On The Road, backpacking the British Isles and the continent...
At this point, it shouldn't surprise, yet it always does.
I like that... It certainly ensures that life is not boring.
Odd. But I'm not complaining.
It's truly odd how people turn up in the damndest places... a phenomenon I first became aware of when I was standing outside of Victoria Station in London and ran into two women I knew from Laurier who were also On The Road, backpacking the British Isles and the continent...
At this point, it shouldn't surprise, yet it always does.
I like that... It certainly ensures that life is not boring.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Easter Ear Candy for the Heathen Soul
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
Beck - Guero
Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
Duke Spirit - Cuts Across the Land
Stooges - Raw Power
Joy Division - Heart and Soul (Disc 3)
Ted Leo + Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Up, Bustle and Out - Master Sessions 2
Beck - Guero
Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
Duke Spirit - Cuts Across the Land
Stooges - Raw Power
Joy Division - Heart and Soul (Disc 3)
Ted Leo + Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
Up, Bustle and Out - Master Sessions 2
I tried to tell ya...
...but you wouldn't listen... take that Doctor Teufel!
Teach you to have a hate on for the Mac platform. How's it feel to eat those words while reading off of the Powerbook? Meh, you say? Well, fair enough, it was better than a decade ago.
Damn... how did we all get this old and not end up either dead or in jail? Probably best to leave that question unanswered.
Heh, what I Fear and Loathe most right now is that I, personally, have very little to fear and loathe. I'm not exactly used to that.
Fuck, I'm bored. That's never a good thing.
Teach you to have a hate on for the Mac platform. How's it feel to eat those words while reading off of the Powerbook? Meh, you say? Well, fair enough, it was better than a decade ago.
Damn... how did we all get this old and not end up either dead or in jail? Probably best to leave that question unanswered.
Heh, what I Fear and Loathe most right now is that I, personally, have very little to fear and loathe. I'm not exactly used to that.
Fuck, I'm bored. That's never a good thing.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
Sloth...
...came for me in the night and busted up my blogging finger apparently. Been a wee while since I posted squat.
Bought a new bike yesterday... a nice, smooth-riding commuter. I look forward to getting my use out of it.
Life is good. Sun is shining bright this AM, I'm about to clean up my act and go get some groceries. After that I think I'm going to sweep up around the house, clean my room, do laundry and have an otherwise domestically focussed day.
Started writing again, real pencil to paper stuff... It's enjoyable, but damn I'm rusty. I'll have to polish the hell out of before it's fit for editorial consumption.
The Liberal Party has begun the process of fragmentation and in-fighting known as "leader selection". Harper has begun to try to rollback legislation that was already passed in a free vote in the House and is proposing to build massive prisons so we can make our society more like that of the US.
Here's a newsflash: I've been talking to some people down there, citizens, you know? People who work for a living, not politicians and blue-skying neo-conservative political theorists, people who actually vote... and they've been saying that they aren't happy with a lot of things that are going on down there... Maybe, just maybe, we should make our own decisions and not build our nation and society into a clueless fanboy's replica of the US as it exists right now.
Hmmm... I guess the kind of thinking that makes one be themselves is not very compatible with the conservative mindset. Well, fair enough, why make your own mistakes when you can re-tread someone else's tried and true ones?
Sloth... it affects people in different ways. Some people stop blogging, others stop thinking for themselves.
Bought a new bike yesterday... a nice, smooth-riding commuter. I look forward to getting my use out of it.
Life is good. Sun is shining bright this AM, I'm about to clean up my act and go get some groceries. After that I think I'm going to sweep up around the house, clean my room, do laundry and have an otherwise domestically focussed day.
Started writing again, real pencil to paper stuff... It's enjoyable, but damn I'm rusty. I'll have to polish the hell out of before it's fit for editorial consumption.
The Liberal Party has begun the process of fragmentation and in-fighting known as "leader selection". Harper has begun to try to rollback legislation that was already passed in a free vote in the House and is proposing to build massive prisons so we can make our society more like that of the US.
Here's a newsflash: I've been talking to some people down there, citizens, you know? People who work for a living, not politicians and blue-skying neo-conservative political theorists, people who actually vote... and they've been saying that they aren't happy with a lot of things that are going on down there... Maybe, just maybe, we should make our own decisions and not build our nation and society into a clueless fanboy's replica of the US as it exists right now.
Hmmm... I guess the kind of thinking that makes one be themselves is not very compatible with the conservative mindset. Well, fair enough, why make your own mistakes when you can re-tread someone else's tried and true ones?
Sloth... it affects people in different ways. Some people stop blogging, others stop thinking for themselves.
Sunday, April 02, 2006
In rotation (week of 2 April 2006)
Working up at Yonge and Eglinton for the next two weeks. This means a longer than usual subway commute this week and next.
Here's the ear candy for week one:
Andre 3000 - The Love Below
Belle & Sebastian - 3..6..9 Seconds of Light
Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Belle & Sebastian - Dog on Wheels
Led Zepplin - IV
MC5 - Take it from the Man!
Mogwai - Government Commissions (BBC Sessions 1996-2003)
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer Single
Radiohead - Kid A
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Strokes - Is this it? (Australian Import)
Here's the ear candy for week one:
Andre 3000 - The Love Below
Belle & Sebastian - 3..6..9 Seconds of Light
Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane
Belle & Sebastian - Dog on Wheels
Led Zepplin - IV
MC5 - Take it from the Man!
Mogwai - Government Commissions (BBC Sessions 1996-2003)
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer Single
Radiohead - Kid A
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Strokes - Is this it? (Australian Import)
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