A couple of days ago, something started flying around Twitter about Twitter changing permission levels with regards to DM’s. Here’s an article on exactly how much that will suck. Long story short, if the good people who make Qwitter don’t change some things, us qwitter folk won’t be able to read or write direct messages …
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I’ll Be On Rogers TV Tomorrow
Sorry for the long silence. I’ve been kinda busy, and Steve’s just not been finding stuff that pushes the right buttons. But here’s a little something. Remember how I mentioned Access Recreation Day? Well, tomorrow, a couple of us are getting interviewed on “Inside Guelph” about it. If you can get Rogers TV cable 20 …
Taking "Tiles And More" To A Whole New Level
Here we go with another episode of hey moron, that’s not a doctor. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think I’ve ever gone to a doctor’s office in the back of a floor tile store. I’ve seen houses converted into medical offices, but it’s usually not in the back room. At any rate, …
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Everything’s Gone, Gotta Carry On
You know how I said on Thursday that my computer was in the hospital? Well, according to the guy at the store, my hard drive is dead. Nothing is retrievable. Nothing can detect it. It makes grinding noises. He says it’s a paperweight. Crycrycrycrycry, gasp, crycrycrycrycry. As the full weight of this set in, I …
No mountable Boot volume: That Can’t Be Good
Well here I am writing this from my phone. Why am I doing this? Because apparently yesterday my motherboard thought it was a good day to die. Not only did it cash in its chips, but it decided to commit murder suicide, taking my hard drive down with it. It's amazing what a couple of …
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Next He’ll Want A Bail Voucher
If you stole a car, do you think it’s a good idea to ask for emergency gas vouchers from the police station? Do you really, Dalton Beyer? Well, you may be rethinking that, now that you’ve been arrested.
The Long And Winding Road To Our Current Election
I guess all this election talk got Ann all curious about the state of government up here in the great white north. It didn’t take long before she got, as she put it, more than she wanted to know. Hahhaa. She found a pretty cool article, so I thought I’d link to it.Here’s the article …
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Invisible Captcha: Cool Or What?
So many times I hear about new captchas, and I cringe. We’ll be soooo screwed. Well, thanks to a conversation on Twitter, I heard about a pretty neat idea.the invisible captcha! Here’s how it works. People who are running their blog updates through Feedblitz and pay a wee bit of change can install this invisible …
Pumped About This Idea
Back a while ago, I talked about the full-service gas station becoming a disappearing phenomenon. Well, could this be a solution? Someone has come up with a system where you push a button, which rings a buzzer and then people come out and pump your gas. I have two questions. It wasn’t clear if you …
My Interview On Accessibility Matters
Remember back when I said I would be on the radio? Well, I finally edited it down from the full hour to the relevant sections, and here’s the result. I left in the monolog by Susan Wheeler because I start joking about it when I start talking, so I felt it had to stay. Plus, …