Some News- February 26, 2007 You can now catch my DJ partner John and I on Sunday Nights at OnTap on York Street in Ottawa spinning hits from the 80's and 90's. This is kind of a dream come true for us - we've always wanted our own club night, and finally have it.Sure, we'd have preferred to have had this 5 years ago or so, before we both got too old to really be out so late on Sunday nights... but whatever. We'll just have to work on our Sunday afternoon power-naps.I've also taken over as Production Manager on a...http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/01/big-news.html back...- February 26, 2007 It's been a hectic couple of weeks - we put up Michel Tremblay's Forever Yours Marie-Lou this past weekend. Production week was hectic. The whole process has been very fun and really a great re-introduction to theatre for me. The other principals in the company have embraced me with open arms and I expect we'll be doing many more works together. I'll try to write more about the experience later. Right now, I'm in recovery mode.http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/02/back.html YouTube: George Takei- February 21, 2007http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/02/youtube-george-takei.html From The Pirate Bay: OscarTorrents- February 12, 2007 The folks behind torrent site The Pirate Bay have launched a new site, OscarTorrents for all your Oscar Film needs. To those worried about downloading in case they get sued: by our calculations, your chances of getting nailed are way less than your chances of winning the lottery. Don't think twice about it.To all intellectual property landlords: we are aware that OscarTorrents might annoy you -- but contain your righteous indignation for a while, and think: we're only linking to torrents that..http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/02/from-pirate-bay-oscartorrents.html wow, that's worse...- February 8, 2007 Now Wal-Mart's partying like it's 1997 with this lovely "Unsupported Browser" message. This is so embarrassing for them... couldn't afford a good web development company Come on...Update: they're even using a spacer.gif to display the error message - talk about living in the past...http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/02/wow-thats-worse.html Thoughts on Thoughts on Music- February 7, 2007 The whole of the Internets are atwitter with chatter and analysis about Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music" essay published yesterday on the Apple website."Is it a challenge to the major record labels An answer to the increasingly hostile European governments (Norway, France, Germany) that are pressuring Apple to "open up" the iTunes Store A message to the press to clarify Apple's stance on DRM A big fuck-you to MicrosoftIt is all of these things." - John GruberPersonally, I think this is a bold...http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/02/thoughts-on-thought-on-music.html PowerToys for Windows XP- February 6, 2007 Cool... just found these Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP - a bunch of small upgrades for different parts of the windows interface - I just installed the Alt-Tab replacement - an upgrade to the regular Alt-Tab function that adds a preview of the application you're switching to. Also interesting looking: Tweak UI, Virtual Desktop Manager and ClearType Tuner... will have to try them out tonight.http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/02/powertoys-for-windows-xp.html Lauchy, where have you been all my life- February 6, 2007 Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows - I was just doing some looking around for an application launcher for windows - because, let's face it, the Start Menu sucks, and the Quick Launch bar just doesn't cut it either... and so I came across Launchy, a free windows utility that indexes your applications and allows you to launch them with just a few keystrokes. I've only just installed it and have barely even begun to use it, but I already see myself getting lots of use out of..http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/02/lauchy-where-have-you-been-all-my-life.html Wow, that's bad...- February 6, 2007 Wal-Mart launched their new video download service today, and boy does it suck. Here's what it looks like in Firefox:Oh yeah also, they want you to pay $15 for a 320x240 video that won't play on iPod, Zune, Mac, or Linux. Boooooooo.http://blogbynight.blogspot.com/2007/02/wow-thats-bad.html |