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The biggest downside of midsummer…

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Most of the time I’m a peaceful man, but all the earwigs in the world could die right now and I would be OK with that.
Damn you Mom, for telling me when I was very young that earwigs crawl into your ears and can’t turn around, so they have to eat through your brain.
Damn you [...]

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My job is getting me down.

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Blogging is suffering due to overwork.
My day today felt exactly like this.
Of course, even when my job is painfully tedious, there are some levels even I won’t sink to to provide myself with distraction.

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Sleep is awesome

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

My wonderful wife and child let me sleep in until 11:15 this morning. (Note for non-Canadians: today is the observed holiday of Canada Day, July 1, and is thus a non-work day for me–hence I had an excuse to stay up last night fiddling with wireless card firmware, etc.)
While 11:15 would have been “early” for [...]

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I have a wireless Linux box

Monday, July 3rd, 2006

I am writing this post in a Firefox window on my newly installed Ubuntu Linux machine.
I had a relatively old IBM Thinkpad A21m sitting around, more-or-less unused, so I decided to test the rumours I’ve been hearing that Ubuntu is now at the “easy one step install and it just works” stage.
Bear in mind that [...]

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