4 09 2003
Just a few quick pieces of news with the obligitory sarcastic remarks:
Bjork played Toronto last night. Concert tickets were apparently $62. Add in taxes and transportation to and from the venue, and the evening would cost you over one-hundred fifty bucks. For that kind of money you could buy a used lawn mower, drain all the oil out and run it for two hours. It would cost less, run longer than the concert, and it would sound about the same.
First SARS, then West Nile, then The Blackout, now Bjork. Will Toronto’s suffering never end?
Governer of California hopeful, Arnold SchwarzenEGGer got hit with an egg while visiting a college campus. Welcome to politics, Arnie. He handled it well by smoothly taking off his jacket and flexing his boo-jing bie-ceps.
It’s taken nearly a week, but our office is almost completely rid of the various computer worms that have been plaguing Internet connections for the month. I said with confidence that my system was clean, while virtually every other computer in the office was infected. I take care of my computers. My desk is a mess, my apartment is a disaster, but my hard drives are immaculate. Back in 1995 I got the Junkie B-strain virus on my 486. Since then I have never had a virus infection… excluding a few test infections that I did on purpose ,^_^
School’s back in, and with it my 20 minute commute returns to a three-quarter-hour trek. You know your commute is too long when you have to change CD’s because the first one is over before you’ve arrived at work. I’m looking at getting a bachelor condo downtown, which would add to my commuting time but not without giving me some extra sleeping time. I’ll have to add in to the price of a condo the cost of a portable MP3 player for my trips to work every day.
Universal Music is cutting the cost of CDs. The hope is that other major companies will follow suit. The point that this is what the music-listening community has been telling them to do for years is almost too obvious to mention. It is worth noting that the RIAA’s decline in music sales has been comparible to the drop in the overal economic prosperity of World Market - even including industries that do not suffer from “Digital Piracy”.
Why are we still paying for Mike Harris?
I’ve got my hands on a Palm IIIxe from an old co-worker. The display stopped working, but continued to take input. She bought a refurbished Sony Clie SJ-33 to replace it. Since I’ve helped her with some tech problems in the past, she said I could have it if I were able to fix it. After cracking the sucker open and browsing around a bit, I found a ribbon that had become disconnected from the I/O board. I picked up a solder kit from Radio Shack and plan to reconnect the ribbon. If it works, I’ve got a new Palm IIIxe! Sweet. Unfortunately, the last time I worked on circuitboards was in a high school Electronics class about ten years ago. The experience should be interesting.
The Toronto Blue Jays have released a new logo for the 2004 season. This is the fifth logo in the club’s history, and the fourth new logo since 1997 (new logo in 1997, slight modification the next year and a ’secondary logo’ released in 2000). Even though “Blue” won’t be part of the logo, they’ll still be using the colours - opting for black and a darker blue than they currently have. Thus filling the safety rule of the fashion industry, “when all else fails, use black”. The imagination is astonishing.
