In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To [...]
Posts Tagged ‘imported from pivot’
November 11th
How To Get Backup Religion
… have your entire system freeze solid, and then, in the recovery console, fsck choke because of a galloping screenful of badblock errors. Then you realize you have no working LiveCDs in the house. And your last backup dates from April. Oh crap.
That was Sunday night; Monday I went down to my brother’s, snagged a [...]
Celebrating The Olympic Legacy!
Debt!
Erosion of civil liberties!
Biohazardous Waste!
Oh, and some sport somewhere in there. Yay.
Something To Do With Koalas?
Upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 along with everyone else in the world (and their dog) last night. Had a bit of a scare when the computer wouldn’t mount /home, but a reboot and fsck during startup cleared that up.
Then I realized I had no 3d accel… this after having flawless 3d accel in 9.04 with the [...]
“…just like looking at baby pictures of the internet.”
Geocities shut down today (well, yesterday already, actually, but close enough) and in honour of all those truely awful Geoshitties websites over the years, XKCD has reskinned itself. Awesome.
I had a Geocities website, starting back in late 1998… This November marks eleven years of web presense for me. I didn’t commit every sin seen on [...]
Granville Island
Granville Island, Vancouver (Wikipedia article, Official Website) is one of Vancouver’s great spaces. Go check it out.
Automotive Entitlement (Again)
Bryant’s story shocking and sobering – but also far too common
Michael Bryant charged in cyclist’s death
Bike courier and car driver clash. Bike courier is killed, run over by the car. Car driver is charged with only “criminal negligence causing death” and “dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death”. Fuck that. If he’d met the guy [...]
O’er The Hills..
…but not all that far away, really.
Spent a long weekend up at my folk’s place, including a great (long) dayhike up in the mountains. Haven’t been up in the alpine in ages, and it was great to get back, sunburn and bugbites notwithstanding.
This was shot in Vancouver on the way up to my folks – [...]
