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| So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Saxophones started blowing me down / I was buried in sound / Taxicabs were driving me around — Wilco, Handshake Drugs |
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Return of the Mac
Didn’t believe me? Read this.
Posted by skooter at 11:35 AM | Comments This entry is filed under Technology.
Yo Steve.
I want Tiger.
Now.
You can go back to your regular life now.
Posted by skooter at 9:03 AM | Comments This entry is filed under Technology.
50 Tracks: All Canada, All the time
Somewhat to my surprise - mostly due to the addiction that is my Squeezebox preventing me from listening to CBC much - this week’s Radio 3 broadcast was pre-empted for the 50 Tracks: Canada countdown. You’ll find the list if you follow the link below.
CBC Radio | 50 Tracks | The List
Now, all in all I like this list. Some very good stuff on there, altough as usual I could disagree with some of the ratings: Blue Rodeo’s “Try” comes out ahead of the “The Weight” by The Band…the latter is arguably one of the most influential tracks of its era, Canadian or otherwise. A bit odd.
But seriously folks: Barenaked Ladies “If I had $1000000” at number two? Ahead of “Heart of Gold” by Neil Young? What were you smoking.
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Moby. Hotel.
I just bought my first post-iPod post-modern CD: Moby’s Hotel.
It’s not the first CD I’ve purchased since the iPod was invented - I’ve been ripping and burning forever now, with my first MP3 download on April 6, 1998
How do I remember the date?
Well, Tammy Wynette died, and I, of course, had to hear Justified and Ancient by the KLF, snagged an MP3 and it’s history from there.
My music has largely been living in iTunes (although I still have a few CDs kicking around) since it’s existed (and before that in the sublimely superb Audion), but this is the first CD I’ve bought since I had an iPod.
So here’s an interesting question: will I ever actually play this CD?
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Tags: Moby, MP3, Squeezebox
Further evidence of the demise of Time magazine
This is being sold as journalism?
TIME.com: Condi on the Rise — Mar. 28, 2005
What’s next - Fox News?
Oops.
Do Computers and Kids Mix?
I was raised with a Macintosh in hand. Maybe not quite - I was 13 when the Mac debuted, but I already had a computer at home when the first Macs arrived in our school lab thanks to Apple Canada. This made this article particularly interesting:
Telegraph | News | Pupils make more progress in 3Rs ‘without aid of computers’
What’s that? No computers for kids? How will they ever learn?
Easy: by making mistakes.
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Posted by skooter at 8:19 AM | Comments This entry is filed under Technology.
Search Engine Optimization
This article, recently in Wired News, has an interesting take on the topic of search engine optimization:
Wired News: Search Rank Easy to Manipulate
I’ve made some reasonably provocative statements about search engine optimization in the past (all of which I would stand by today) and this article does little to change them. It does, however, provide a counterpoint and a compelling argument for why I am both right, and wrong.
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Posted by skooter at 11:07 AM | Comments This entry is filed under Technology.
So I quit a job
Which is astounding, really, because I spent so much time looking for one.
Of course, when one came along so did another - and it is, as the saying goes, the part I was born to play.
So here I am, no longer overemployed and underpaid - now I’m just underpaid.
But I get my weekends back soon, and a bunch of people are going to be happy because I’ll have more time to actually finish those things I’ve committed to. I’ll be happy because I finally have time to start doing things like running, and riding my bike, and maybe even getting out into the mountains a little bit again.
I need to prepare for South America, and those mountains are beckoning.
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BC Superweek 2006
Tour de Delta Criterium
Parade of Lost Souls 2006
Yabba Dabba Doo
Garibaldi Lake
Clouds at Garibaldi Lake
Algonquin Park
Reflected Clouds
napa valley
Barn, Anderson Valley, California
disneyworld 1982
Tom Sawyer's Cabin
Rock Creek Fair 2008
Chip Truck
Parade of Lost Souls 2006
Ninja in Orange
bowen island july 2006
Wooden Bench, Fairweather, Bowen Island