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Well, I’m one step closer to having my Nokia N86! I’m such a silly. Every day this month, I’ve been thinking I should order the phone, I should order the phone. But you’ve heard all too often about my fears of making a bad technology decision. Yesterday, after a lot of hesitation, I picked up …
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I forgot to put this in my last post. I can’t even remember who told me this, or in what class it happened. But I remember someone telling me this story. They said their teacher walked up to the front of the room, and wrote “ghoti” up on the board. People guessed that it might …
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You know, I’ve been doing some work with a guy at the literacy centre. When I started, I was brought in to teach him JAWS. Within a couple of minutes, I realized that he didn’t know how to type! So we started typing drills…and learned that he had a lot of issues with spelling. And …
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I just bought a copy of DVD Audio Extractor, a program that lets you take the audio out of a DVD and put it in mp3. It’s a pretty cool, easy to use program. The only thing that’s annoying about it is it’s so demanding on the processor that any audio that comes out of …
You never know what will start a cascade of thoughts. It can be as simple as something I saw in our tracker. Something like this: 16 Jan, Sat, 04:19:33Google:dog wearing gloves Gloves? Like boots? Did they mean boots? I guess boots kind of look like mitts, mitts with soles on them. But do they really …
I got an email from the CNIB begging me to join their “Right to Read” campaign. But they really need to change the campaign’s name to be more honest. It’s the “Save the CNIB library” campaign. That’s what it is, and all it is. First, let me say that I do appreciate the CNIB library. …
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I know I have said quite a few strange things in my sleep, as documented by this here comment thread, but I think Adam the Sleep Talkin’ Man has me totally beat. I hope Steve doesn’t get any crazy ideas about recording my snippets, although I don’t think I’ve had nearly as many good ones …
On Saturday, Steve, the shoe thief, another friend and I went to see Adam Growe, the guy who is the host of the Canadian version of Cash Cab. He was atthe River Run Centre. The way it was described sounded super weird. He was going to do a little one-man play, and then some kind …
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A couple of weeks or so ago, I said I found out that Holly was going to have to get the tumour removed. I guess I should do a little update. The good news is she made it through the surgery as well as one can make it through crazy major 13-hour brain surgery. The …
This is a pretty cool story. Cadillac was a GDB puppy, but they decided that he just wouldn’t make it as a guide dog. So he became a search and rescue dog, and now he’s headed for Haiti to put his rescue skills to definite use. Good luck to him and his handler. Years ago, …