Since slashdot has banned me for one or two downmods again, I'll be turning this account over to the trolls. I'm now registered at www.anti-slash.org, and I'll see what I can do to help the GNAA.

Malda, if this is how you treat your 4k+ users, I will be so happy to see slashdot crash and burn. All I can say is: go to hell.

Someone took a deeper look into the history of Canada's flag bearer for the 2004 Athens Olympic games. It seems that while all is well for his selection for flag bearer in the physical department, the patriotistic department is, well, lacking. The article has a certain... "Je Me Souviens" attitude to it.

Seems Canada's flag bearer doesn't like Canada. How sad.

Email me and you shall receive. Free to the first 6 people to prod me. After that you get put on the waiting list. :-D

Enjoy!

Well, guess what sort of call I got yesterday at work?

The old "Hello, we have an item we are shipping you that includes an invoice for (insert item and price with 10x markup here) because you've ordered it" scam.

Yes, everybody, Merchant Retail Supplies is back in business after a long respite! As usual, they'll use a fake company name on the phone, but unusually, they're too dumb to hide their caller ID.

Just a note:

If you're using an IBM P70 Monitor from an RS/6000 Server, it's multisync, and you can use IBM PowerPC 13W3 pinouts if you want to convert it to VGA (there's a hidden VGA knockout under the steel backplate). The monitor defaults to multisync, separate sync.

I spent a good long time *NOT* finding good answers as to how that monitor was pinned out (There's many 13W3 "standards"). Just thought I'd let you all know how to do it yourselves!

As many of you may happen to have figured out, I now run a retail business in Ontario, Canada.

Well, as all the christmas hype, etc, have passed, I find myself bored and reading the Retail Business Holidays Act; the law that governs when a shop can and can't open in Ontario.

Did you know that most retail businesses in Ontario must:

The other day my ad was censored in the newspaper. I'll let you know what led to this with a minute by minute count of that day:

December 3, 2003

A most unusual thing happened today. My business partner tells me today we received a visit from someone who purports to represent Rogers Cable of Canada.

Rogers Cable is one of Ontario's (if not Canada's) largest cable television services.

For a laugh, you can see a satisfied Rogers customer's site right here.

Hello. You'll see a heated, and particularly useless discussion (from both sides, I think), starting somewhere around here.

Unfortunately, the other party has decided to "get me in trouble" with, in my opinion, a bogus epithet.

Did I just see "dugg.ca" on the TV in the latest Canadian McDonald's commercial for some sweepstakes?

Or am I just losing it? It's certainly been a long day...

Bryan Dennison (aka Fern Dennison) is an ebay scammer.

Early today (August 18, 2003) I won two ebay auctions with no reserve for Playstation 2s.

So, I came across this story in LWN today. In it is a link to SCO's reasoning for their pricing (and the actual pricing, which is $699).

Amazingly, SCO explains where the infringing code is to be found!

Well, I decided to mount my windows box the other day. For some reason, I couldn't edit an mpeg with GOPchop. Something about being out of memory or something.

Strange... until I did a directory listing...