Archive for June, 2004
Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
What have I been doing?
I’ve been being tired. For a lot of reasons, but I’m just tired. I’m not going to let that stop me. There’s a new dog in the house. Right now, we’re just trying to decide if he should stay. The dog, a half-Boston Bull Terrier, half-Pug, was a gift to The Lovely One from her […]
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Thursday, June 24th, 2004
News Sports Weather
I have to cut back a bit on my food intake, but being back in full stride with my cycling again will help. The Liberal candidate in my riding, Dave Haggard, has been standing on the busiest intersection of my daily commute twice so far. He comes out with an entourage to hold signs and […]
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Monday, June 21st, 2004
This Post is Mostly About Politics
But not entirely. First of all, that post that was dated today was actually e-mailed on Thursday. Let that be a warning to me about e-mail posting. Sorry for the inconvenience. Second of all, I had a nice weekend, in which Father’s Day figured prominently. After a nice Sunday night dinner at the always-popular cross-cultural […]
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Monday, June 21st, 2004
E-mail blogging: addictive
This is mostly a test post, but I did have fun doing my lunchtime fix-your-bike workshop today. I think it went well, though it was not nearly as organized as it should have been. I blame the instructor. Hm. After struggling with my Achilles tendonitis for most of the early part of the season, I […]
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
Is this thing on?
I’m just testing a new trick with Blogger: e-mail blogging. Also, I seem to have a feed, now.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
Ah, where did the weekend go? I didn’t do anything all weekend. Well, I went to Daiso, the Aberdeen Centre’s anchor tenant. $2 for anything in the store, but with a Japanese twist! What does that mean? Well, $2 metric speed wrenches for one thing, and a lot more cheap ashtrays than you would expect. […]
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Thursday, June 10th, 2004
IT4BC review continued Bryn Hughes of VCC presented on Radmind. Radmind good! Lab and regular computer change-management! Auto system restoration! Works on OS X with a GUI, or any UNIX system! Ryan like! Ryan want use! Arr-ar-arh! That is all for now,
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Thursday, June 10th, 2004
IT4BC summarized. Ross Chevalier, Novell (Keynote 1): -Executives understand three things: reduced cost, mitigated risk, increased profit -Cost control drives IT [but what about the Barry Leinbach idea of turning IT into a profit centre? -ed] [notes on his PowerPoint presentation: Ross primarily uses graphs, not bullet points. The information density of the graphs is […]
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2004
Weekend Update I spent the weekend in Victoria, staying with my aunt and doing a combination of tourism and bicycle racing. The results were mixed. I finished 8 minutes behind the pack in the Sooke Classic, but had so much fun on a glorious point-to-point (almost; we actually turned around at the halfway point) race […]
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Friday, June 4th, 2004
Gone Racing For the weekend. The Victoria Cycling Festival is on the agenda. Hopefully I’ll take some pictures. See ya soon.