From a personal standpoint, holidays such as Thanksgiving have always confused me. After all, it is an arbitrary holiday that’s slotted in a more or less convenient spot to either placate the plebs, or encourage copious amounts of consumer spending. I have no problems with this as I enjoy both placation and consumer spending. What confuses me most ( Read more... )

Wow…it’s been over half a year since I last blogged here. Seems like the months have come and gone as fast as the planes that fly our skies.

A lot has happened since the beginning of the year, and I feel like I’m slowly continuing my upward spiral into insanity…of the good variety. Let me share some of them with you.

• I picked up an iPad. It’s ( Read more... )

I received a mass distribution email from Charlie Angus, MP [NDP, Digital Affairs Critic] regarding the need for ACTA transparency and public consultation on the subject. If you haven’t heard much about ACTA, it’s an international treaty on copyright that is being negotiated in secret with little or no oversight into the issue. I encourage you all ( Read more... )

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2010 is here, and apparently, it hails the beginning of a new decade. With it, the new year brings renewed hope and revitalized vigor to tackle the problems and challenges this year will present. It will be exciting times and I look forward to it.

Besides, these few nascent hours of 2010 are already tons better than most of the previous year.

Let ( Read more... )

It’s hard to think about this past year without drawing up feelings of pain, anger, tiredness, and sorrow. It’s been a rough year; rougher for some, granted, but this year has certainly hit me pretty hard. The only way for me to describe it is that my world simply burned. To a crisp. It’s an odd, but not overly negative feeling, and I’ll let you ( Read more... )

Oh…woe is I.

Well, not really. My woes have long since passed and I have since continued on with my life. Afterall, there really is no time allotted in my life to dilly-dally with these trifles things.

Still, some of you remember my mild outburst on the venerable Visage Tome last week along the lines of “Screw You, Apple. Screw You.” I still ( Read more... )

Due to circumstances beyond my control [and one I choose not to discuss here], I will be using an HTC Magic for a week or so. It will be an interesting experiment. I look forward to the results.

Here’s to good fun and cheer [and hopefully survival]!

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We’re usually a pretty jovial bunch at the place I work, and we take a lot of jabs at each other whenever we get the opportunity. For example, we make a lot of fun of my boss for his severe seniority, and another of the coworkers for his Danishness. It’s all in good fun, and are all wholly accurate to who each of us are. Naturally, it would come to ( Read more... )

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1. the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined. [Dictionary.com]
2. the final product of someone has ruin your shit. A utter defeat or total destruction on a massive scale. [UrbanDictionary.com]
3. the brief and fleeting sensation upon realizing that your Northern Chinese hosts drink much more heavily ( Read more... )