Month: October, 2002
31 October, 2002 (21:12) | Sociology | 1 comment
Good show old chap! Britain’s cultural minister wxpressed his feelings regarding this years crop of finalists for the £20,000 Turner Prize in art. He called them "coneptual bullshit" and went on to say
"The Turner Prize entries are tat,” he said. “They don’t have any ideas and they’re made rather badly. They’re just very boring, very [...]
31 October, 2002 (20:58) | Humor | No comments
In the spirit of Halloweeen a little something creepy. Make sure you move your mouse over the picture
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31 October, 2002 (16:44) | Pagan | No comments
A note to wish all my fellow pagan readers a great Samhain and for my non pagan readers Happy Halloween. Now go scare the little monsters at the door silly
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30 October, 2002 (22:12) | Computer | No comments
Oh my just what we needed to hear - the single biggest flaw in all OS’s is not going to be easily fixed. This is not an MS problem alone. It affects all operating systems because virtually all OS’s were written in C and buffer overflows are common in apps written in C.
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30 October, 2002 (11:37) | Sociology | 1 comment
An interesting personal account of a transplanted American growing up in Canada. It really illustrates that, despite the many superficial similarities, we are two very different cultures.
Yes we speak a similar language, read the many of the same books (although I doubt many Americans read CanLit), watch the same movies and listen to the same [...]
30 October, 2002 (09:45) | Literarature | No comments
Mystery writer Patricia Cornwell believes she has uncovered the true identity of Jack the Ripper and in the process she spent some 6 million dollars of her own money. While she has unearthed probably the best evidence to date it is still not conclusive. Short of finding a written confession by a credible suspect I [...]
29 October, 2002 (23:13) | Humor | 2 comments
You probably have to be Canadian to really appreciate this
The Ministry of Transport Safety Board recently divulged that they had for the last five years covertly funded a project with Ford & Chrysler auto makers whereby Ford & Chrysler installed black boxes in four wheel drive pickup trucks in an effort to determine, [...]
28 October, 2002 (22:53) | Political | No comments
Gore Vidal strikes out at Bush and 9/11 indicating a possible conspiracy to either have planned it or had some part in making it happen. While I don’t agree with him on this - not because I don’t believe in conspiracies, they are only too real - but because I just don’y think Bush and [...]
27 October, 2002 (22:12) | Humor | No comments
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27 October, 2002 (15:57) | Political | No comments
Well I WAS having a nice relaxing Sunday watching TV when Brian, who’s both my Boss, friend and landlord knocks on my door and says look out the window - sure enough a mini blizzard happening. First snowfall of the year, but I’m hoping this one wll foolow the course of usual years and [...]
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