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November 11th

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 [...]

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 [...]

…But Still No Flying Cars, Part 12,456

NASA has a Flickr account — nifty.

Most of it’s pretty banal, actually, but the Soyuz landing in Kazakhstan (Expedition 20) pictures are pretty cool.

One problem, though: all the photos seem to be under a Creative Commons Attribution (BY) + Non-Commercial (NC) License &mdash as an agency of the United States Federal Government, isn’t everything NASA [...]

Granville Island

Granville Island, Vancouver (Wikipedia article, Official Website) is one of Vancouver’s great spaces. Go check it out.

Floating Astronauts, But Still No Flying Cars

From BoingBoing, a headline that would have made zero sense even five years ago:
Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth (also: laptops in orbit!)
Really cool 15min long YouTube vid over there. Go watch it. This living in the future thing is kind of cool sometimes.
ObPlanetUbuntuRef: Pity those laptops appear to be running [...]

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 – [...]