Archive for November, 2005

The Vancouver Canucks are playing the Colorado Avalanche tonight, and as I was sitting at my computer, I was wondering … is there any live broadcast of the game online? CKNW, the local radio station that usually broadcasts the Canucks’ games, doesn’t have streaming. So I checked out NHL.com (irritatingly part of the MSN...
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Well, it did snow last night, as I thought it might. (Although, true to West coast form, most of it melted today.) However, during the night, we were visited by the deer that we often see around our house – and they left tracks up our driveway: I snapped this pic early in the...
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OK, occasionally I post the odd completely off-the-wall story on my blog. And this one fits the bill: People’s bottoms are getting so big they no longer make a suitable target for injections, a study in Ireland has shown. Many are now so obese that the needles customarily used simply are not long enough...
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Saw a cool bumper sticker at the rink Saturday night: Support your local hospital. Play hockey. I believe this is the one right here. Certainly rings a bell with me!
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It is capital-C cold today. (At least for the West coast – I think it went below 0 Celsius today.) It feels like snow, looks like snow, and it even smells like snow. And guess what’s in the forecast? Snow. (Of course, when all these conditions are met, and kids’ expectations are high, it...
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Teresa and I have been considering what to do with our home stereo for quite some time, and I’m thinking an iPod-based solution might be the answer. Once I got my iPod, I immediately felt that my music library was freed – in retrospect CDs and jewel cases seem like little plastic coffins that...
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Remember the big ugly foot? Well. Apparently playing hockey on a badly bruised foot is not quite the thing to do. Unless you want it to get worse: Ah well. It goes nicely with the bump just over my left eye that I acquired today from yet another stick in the face.
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I can’t say I expected this … a new service from Google that connects advertisers and buyers via the phone. We’re testing a new product that gives you a free and fast way to speak directly to the advertiser you found on a Google search results page – over the phone. Here’s how it...
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Ice hockey is for masochists, as I believe I’ve mentioned before. In addition to the 4 stitches that were inserted to hold my lip together about 3 weeks ago, and the cantaloupe-sized bruise just above my right knee that I got as a souvenir for stopping a puck a week after that, I’ve got...
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Remember the “designed for Windows XP” urinal that I blogged a few days ago? We had a good laugh in the office today when it suddenly broke down. Must have picked up a virus, or maybe there was a bug in the code. Apparently the software in urinals is very complex these days. Hopefully...
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I thought I’d try out Google Analytics tonight, and went in to sign up, only to find this message: Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand, and as a result, we have temporarily limited the number of new signups as we increase capacity. In the meantime, please submit your name and email address and...
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I occasionally wander over to Technorati and weep at my woefully pitiful blog ranking: 103,499th. Ouch. But the other day, I had a slightly contrary thought. Sure, I’m part of the long tail of websites. Specifically, blogs. But that long tail is really, really, really long. Incredibly long. In fact, mind-blowingly long. As Technorati...
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I took most of the day off last week Friday – Teresa and I took the kids to Mount Baker, just across the border in Washington. There’s a great little tubing area that ends in a flat run over a little lake. The ice seemed to hold, but I could kick my way through...
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Well, I hope you’ve got a great idea. ‘Cause unless you do, you’re sunk. But if you do … it’s really cheap to start companies these days. (That’s a link to a Paul Kedrosky presentation that I saw at a Vancouver Enterprise Forum session on Web 2.0.)
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I finished reading Cavalcade, by Alison Sinclair this past week. Good book! It’s science fiction – a novel take on first contact, which is hard to do, as it’s been done and done and done. But not quite to death, as this book proves. As usual in the best of science fiction, the times...
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