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Archive for October, 2006
Woe is me
Oct 31st
We have guests coming for dinner in about an hour, Maija was working in a new office today (temping) so she knew she’d be home a little later than usual. I left work early so as to be home in time to start preparing the food.
Maija had picked out a casserole from a book of casserole recipes. We endeavour to try something new each week, so tonight was Pumpkin Steak night. As bizarre as that title sounds, it’s actually a tasty sounding dish, involving steak cubes and pumpkin cooked for an hour and a half. Maija had given me detailed More >
Re-Invention 06
Oct 22nd
The Toronto Groove Collective is a group of like minded electronic music enthusiasts in Toronto, looking to change the city through God loving dance music. We threw our first gig last week. Some of you were there!!
New site now live!
Oct 18th
Wort wort wort. Look around, explore, play. It’s taken me some time, I know, but here she is.
The latest iteration of J Puddy.net!
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Oct 18th
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Cheers.
Google – Ambassador of the Free (with ads) World
Oct 16th
I’ve read on Slashdot that Google is already facing lawsuits after it’s recent acquisition of YouTube. In a nutshell, a lot of the content on YouTube is deemed to be copyright material, and the television and movie networks have been looking for someone to sue. YouTube didn’t have much of a legal face, until now.
Shel Israel (a well-known author and blogger) writes a great article on his perspective of the pending Google vs. Hollywood.
To put current (antiquated) copyright laws in contrast (which I think a lot of people are familiar with; you basically can’t do anything with stuff that’s not More >
Upcoming Gig! Re-Invention
Oct 10th
Don Johnson Big Band
Oct 10th
Someone tell me why/how I’ve heard this song before?
Road, by Don Johnson Big Band.
“Keep one eye on the road, the other one fixed on the one you hold”
Just got a MySpace request, and I know I’ve heard this song. It’s cool. I wonder if a hip hop artist sampled it. Don’t ask me why I wonder that.
If you value the environment don’t buy from Apple or Lenovo
Oct 1st
Greenpeace has issued some fascilnating data on how “green” various technology makers processes are.
Your Guide to Green Electronics and How the Companies Stack Up
7 Nokia – Good but room for improvement on amounts recycled.
7 Dell – Points lost for not yet having models without the worst chemicals. Strong support for takeback.
5.3 Sony Ericsson – Some models without some of the worst chemicals, but bad on precautionary principle and take back.
5 Samsung – Points for toxic phase out but not good on take back and recycling.
4.7 Sony – Some models without the worst chemicals, but bad on precautionary principle and take back.
4.7 More >
Halo Excitement Goes Way High
Oct 1st
I’m going to guess most of you have heard of the Halo video game series. It’s great. News to some might be the fact that Peter Jackson is Executive Producing the forthcoming Halo film. Well, new news is that Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh and working on a new Halo project, designed to be quite unlike anything the video game industry has been before. Promising? I think so.
Huge news is also that Ensemble Studios, the legends who made the Age of Empires series, is hard at work on a Halo RTS (real-time strategy). The trailer will make you wet More >