Archive for March, 2005

iPod’s iBack!

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

New iPod in 6 Days, that’s 4 work days. At this time last week I wasn’t reloading my iPod I was scrambling to back it up. I don’t want to garner the label of Mac Apologist (have I mentioned how much I hate OS9?), and I defiantly wish my first iPod had just worked; but… Continue Reading iPod’s iBack!

Wednesday’s Ontario farmer’s Protest

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

This is Wednesday’s Ontario farmer’s (well, the Lanark Landowners Association’s) protest map towards downtown Toronto. Ontario farmer’s plan to drive this route with their tractors to make a point about the economic viability of Ontario farms and the level of farm subsidies in Ontario. This is a better protest map that would direct their concerns… Continue Reading Wednesday’s Ontario farmer’s Protest

International Womens’ Day

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

I heard Sheila Rogers give this quote on the CBC today: Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975), former mayor of Ottawa once said, “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”

Your warning about 14′ IDE Cables

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

On the weekend I had to come into work because our development server (which I won’t give the DNS of) started to have data coruption issues. We had recently uprgraded the drives from a pair of 40Gs to 120Gs. In this graduated process we started with just moving the information onto the new drives then… Continue Reading Your warning about 14′ IDE Cables

Linux on the desktop – Because you don’t waste enough time getting your computer to work already.

Monday, March 7th, 2005

Have you considered trying Linux? Here’s a good flash animation of what that’s like. I’ll put a posting up soon on why I’m angry with a certain linux server. www.olene.net/linux.html Also, here’s another flash he did on switch from Windows to Mac (a little more positive) olene.net/switch