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Once again it seems that someone in Linux-land is missing the point. Linus Torvalds, the original writer of the Linux operating system, is now encouraging users to use the KDE desktop environment because Gnome is developed by "interface nazis"who spend too much time targeting "dumb users". Personally, I think that these developers of Gnome are [...]

Okay, I’ll be the first to admit it: I worked for nearly two years as a telemarketer. My wife currently does ( business-to-business only though, so she’s not interrupting your dinner… ). I happen to think that it is a perfectly fine way to make a living – if you have the stomach for it. [...]

Sony/BMG (SNE-N) has today unveiled what it hopes will be the final word in the controversy surrounding the numerous security issues raised by the DRM cum rootkit used on several compact discs released by the label. Trouble continued to follow the company as security holes were discovered in the patch released to resolve the initial [...]

Work sucks today. A couple of days ago I finished work on a large project and now I am sitting waiting for the DAU ( DumbAss User ) who requested it to get off his ass and test the thing. Of course when it was requested it was the highest of high priorities, but now [...]

It was sometime last week. My mother was sick and she went to see the doctor because she just wasn’t getting better. Her doctor sent her to a clinic to have some x-rays done. So far, so good. A few days later she receives a call from the x-ray clinic. The woman on the phone [...]

For the longest time I wouldn’t start the day without reading the articles on Slashdot. Hell, at my last job I would check on new articles every hour on the hour. Recently, however, I have spent a lot more time reading the articles on Digg. Why? There are a few reasons. Number one is the [...]

There is a problem in the world today: fat people. Seriously, people are getting fatter and fatter all the time and something has to be done. I saw the 180lb three-year-old on Oprah who eats something obscene like 6 cheeseburgers from McDonalds for breakfast. And the chick who said she has to hose out her [...]

So, I get myself a blog and promptly start to neglect it. Not that anyone would notice – the whopping 12 hits on the counter shows that my small ramblings are not wowing the masses. Oh well, no big surprise there, it isn’t like I’m doing this to become famous. In other news, I have [...]

So, we are back home now and while we were out, winter decided to move in. There were some light flurries as we were leaving Edmonton and a wee bit of snow along the side of the highway from there to The Battlefords, nothing too bad. From the Battlefords to Borden, however, was like driving [...]

So, here we are in Edmonton. We have free high-speed Internet here in the hotel room, which is very nice. It would be nicer if they had wireless access but they don’t so we had to hit BestBuy and grab some Cat-5. The West Edmonton Mall is insane right now, there is some big-assed Rodeo [...]