Category: musings
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Who controls your money? The advertisers, or you?
This blog post by Xup brings up an interesting point on the matter of advertising, product placements, and such. A perhaps odd thing for me to be writing about, considering the Google ads present on my blog, but I think it explains my take on advertising in general and why, … Read the rest
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The only reason I watch American Idol has left American Idol.
Yesterday’s end to Idol’s season doubled as the last appearance of one Simon Cowell as a judge on that show. He was also pretty much the only reason I bothered watching as few episodes of the show as I have. I’ve always had a bit of a problem with that … Read the rest
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Now, if we can just get Tony Clement to admit he’s copied tapes before.
Canada’s industry minister, Tony Clement, has finally come clean on what everyone and their dog already knows. His iPod, which he’s had since 2006, is chock full of music he legally wouldn’t be allowed under current copyright legislation to put there, regardless to the fact he owns those same songs … Read the rest
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And back to school I go. Or, rather, I try to.
I mentioned a few days ago I was looking into options that don’t include me spending the foreseeable future on ODSP. One of those options, which as I expected didn’t pan out, was a conversation had between the employment assistance service I’m going through and Online Support, the only … Read the rest
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So Ottawa says they’re getting new buses.
City council has approved a $155.7-million deal that will replace 226 articulated buses on OC Transpo’s fleet. Does this mean the 118 will stop suffering from a rather depressing lack of air conditioning during the hottest days of summer? Yeah, I didn’t think so either. Ah well, can’t really shake … Read the rest
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Floppy disks are dead. No, really, it’s official.
Sales of floppy disks come to a screaming hault in March of next year. I haven’t had a computer with a floppy disk drive since probably March of 6 years ago. Yet, I still have a case of well-used floppies kicking around the apartment that haven’t so much as been … Read the rest
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Testing out the Windows Live Writer.
I’ve been doing this long enough now that I think I’m fairly well justified in wanting to look for something that doesn’t require I pull up the website in order to write a post. Not that I don’t like the WordPress interface, but sometimes, I don’t want to wait for … Read the rest
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Employment resource centers plus small town living equals not much help.
So, as I hinted at in my last post, I dropped by an employment resource center today. Mostly out of general curiosity–they couldn’t do much worse for me than I have so far, but also because, well, I could. Turns out I might have been smart to keep looking outside … Read the rest
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Apparently, my neighbour’s cat is broken. Badly.
I haven’t been spending a whole lot of time in this apartment, particularly when compared to how long I’ve been paying rent on it. But, there’s one very noticeable thing that always seems to be present every time I am. A very bad-sounding, apparently constantly in heat, cat. I didn’t … Read the rest
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Ottawa gets a new area code. Does this mean they don’t recycle?
By this time next month, new phone service will be asigned to numbers in a new, much talked about area code–that being 343. It’s supposed to go into effect as of the 17th of next month. In slightly unrelated news, my old 613 number still has up a recording telling … Read the rest
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