mike the mountain

Halloween, baby. Definitely my favourite excuse to dress up funny and harass strangers into giving you candy.
Thought this year was going to be a bust… Dreamgirl and I were signed up for some all day fundraiser with my office on Saturday (aka: grownup Halloween party day), and we figured we’d be dead by the [...]

Necessity breeds invention. Frustration breeds apathy.
When it comes to software (or any other tool), Necessity (”I need to get this job done”) + Frustration (”this stupid thing won’t work!”) = “Screw it, I’m using something else!!”
Yesterday’s case in point: Excel.
For some reason, Office just wasn’t working for me. Outlook crashed twice while trying [...]

My dear friend Joey deVilla (aka: Accordian Guy) is having some fun at the moment with a little Googlebombing campaign against his deadbeat ex-housemate. A local news broadcast even picked up his story (link).
There’s nothing worse than having someone you thought of as a friend screw you out of money (I’ll tell you a [...]

So because of various firewall restrictions at work, the only chat protocol I’ve found that I can use is Skype. MSN, Google, AIM, ICQ… all of them are blocked, but Skype goes through. Must use a different port or something, I don’t ask why I’m just glad I have a way to stay [...]

Boing Boing: Kick-ass free software/open source con coming to Toronto, Oct 26-27
Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared
Maps of War - Animated movie showing the history of military conquest in the Middle East. I’m sure it has no influence on modern politics at all.
Widgetbox: Directory of web widgets for Blogs
Junkfunnel Labs: Suspicious Looking Device - [...]

Friday, October 13, 2006.
13/10/2006
1+3+1+0+2+0+0+6
=
13.
I love stuff like this!
(PS - Dow Jones index ended up 13 points!)

Any project that starts out with “hollow out a dead rat” has got to be something special. Oh the evil Halloween fun I could have with all these shiny metal filing cabinets and stressed out employees in the office…
Boing Boing: HOWTO make a glowing dead rat LED throwie

JEEZUZ JUMPIN’ JACKRABBIT this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!!

Movie geek-gasm overload, holy CRAP I can’t even process how many things in this trailer make me want to dance… Zombies! Tom Savini! Crazy Babysitter Twins! Knife-throwing guy taken to the ridiculous EXTREME! They call him freakin [...]

A recent post on the always-interesting Lifehacker convinced me to give Google Reader a try. I’ve sworn by Bloglines for as long as I’ve known about RSS feeds, and for the most part I’ve been very happy. There have been a few annoyances (picture alignments not being maintained for example, or the 200 [...]

“… and I must go.” ~John MuirFlickr. Tag: CanmoreThree Sisters. Ha Ling. Cascade.Knowing that places like this exist…… and that I will soon once again stand amoung them…… is what makes mornings like this…… dark, cold, raining, traffic, tired, sore, sick…… survivable.