My friend Duane who is clearly the best Vancouver Blogger is involved in some sort of strange scam to improve his google score. I am shocked, simply shocked that anyone participates in trying to to manipulated googles rating by posting links to other peoples blog on their blog. You can read more about it at http://duanestorey.com/2008/01/29/vancouver-blogger/. PS – If you are not convinced yet to go read this, Duane has great photos, check out his Blog of Vancouver Taboo Sex Show.
Archive for the ‘Junk’ Category
I’ve become a fan of Lulu Carpenter’s at The Octagon in santa cruz. Go try it.
Drafts I read and commented on – printed double sided and 2 up.
I kid you not, it really does say open other end
The real reason the internet did not work at the IETF hotel can be traced back to a large rodent.
It is pre release beta software but all I wanted was the version number – instead I got …
This picture really does not do it justice, it is actually an animated thing with shimmering water that rocks in a seasick motion while the text (which is under the water) scrolls off into the distance under in a bad star wars knock off.
I don’t know why people go on about Apple’s great software. I’m dubious. In Mail.App:
- They broke the ability to bind a key sequence to applescript in latest version
- Earlier versions failed to check the certificate name of server in SSL connections
- Can’t filter to display only unread messages
- Does not spell check the Subject line when spell checking rest of message
- Can’t include folder name in filter rule criteria
- Search does not seem to use Spotlight
- You can choose to check spelling when you send, or to have red squiggles under misspelled words – however you can’t have both. This is “upgrade” from pervious version where you could not spell check on send at all.
- If you have two email address for a person, no way to set the preferred one.
Clearly I am in a bad mode but it seems today that the only things I like about my Mac are:
- It runs UNIX
- It runs Microsoft Powerpoint and Word
Read all about it at:
http://www.tmcnet.com/sip/0106/sip-feature-articles-hidden-potential-0106.htm
Actually, I’m not sure they predict all that much in the end but, hey, someone has to post a link to this article 
There is a wonderful dumb moment in E911 as point 26 in Business 2.0’s dumbest moments in tech – February 1, 2006 where they quote Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Skpe as saying
“If there’s a burglar in my home, maybe I send an e-mail or a text message to the police instead of making a call.”
Now I suspect that Niklas many have been trying to say that in some situations it would be nice to have alternative ways to contact a PSAP and I would agree but we will always want voice as one way, and mostly likely the primary way, to contact a PSAP?
Uh, I’m not sure I want to try this but ….
The claim is “The World’s Most Expensive Coffee is From Beans Cycled Through an Indonesian Monkey’s Digestive System”. News real at http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/k/kopiluwak.htm
On Dan’s brother’s recommendation, I went to Espresso Vivace Roasteria. It was very good.
Unrelated photos …
Best URL:
Nice Art:
Foto’s Nederlands Kampioenschap Latte Art
Great Coffee:
Barefoot Coffee Roasters – San Jose
Caffe Artigiano – Vancouver
Hines Coffee – Seattle
Random Links:
CoffeeGeek – News, Reviews, Opinion and Community for Coffee and Espresso
Click on the link below then search for “The Boss”.
If someone has the link from this morning IETF MMUSIC WG meeting, let me know where it is.