4 Things
Posted 30 Sep, 2006 at 08:49 by blue in /Chatter | Permanent link
A little something...
Four jobs I’ve had in my life
youth counsellor
farm hand
business process re-engineer
product manager
Four movies I can watch over and over
White Christmas
Shrek
Sound Of Music
The Fifth Element
Four places I have lived
Orangeville, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Waterloo, Ontaio, Canada
Four TV shows I love to watch
(this is very hard for someone without a TV)
CSI
Firefly/Babylon 5/ST:TNG (and various other extinct sci-fi shows)
Discovery Channel
Music Videos (MTV, MuchMusic, VH1)
Four places I have been on vacation
Mardi Gras, New Orleans
Signal Hill, Newfoundland
Highlands Backpacking Trail, Algonquin
Cat's Pyjama's B&B, Lion's Head
Four websites I visit daily
Questionable Content
Jay Is Games
CNN
Travian
Four of my favorite foods
Pad Thai
BBQ T-bone steak and a baked potato with butter and sour cream
Pie (and other pastries)
Fruit (almost any kind)
Four places I would rather be right now
camping
someplace new/on an adventure
playing ultimate
anyplace with friends
Four bloggers I am tagging
Matt
Kael
Brent
Wendy
If you've been tagged, the only rules are you must answer the same questions, and you must tag 4 new bloggers.
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Windows Vista: The Burning Questions
Posted 28 Sep, 2006 at 08:37 by brent in /Technical | Permanent link
I've been having a hell of a time finding a good utility that was:
- Free
- Burns ISOs to CDs/DVDs
- Isn't limited by ISO size
I already had Nero, but it doesn't work yet on a clean install of Windows Vista. (I'm running RC1 build 5728).
So I wrote my own utility. You can download it or get more information at : ISOBurn
Source is there as well if you want to play with it.
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What I'm grooving on, 09/2006 edition
Posted 27 Sep, 2006 at 23:26 by matt in /Music | Permanent link
So consider this a resolution to put up at least one post a month in this space. Here's some stuff I've been listening to a lot recently.
- Le Vent du Nord consists of four veterans of the traditional Quebecois folk-music scene. There's a fairly strong similarity with the maritime-celtic sound that became a Big Deal back ten years ago. I'm about 98.8% sure that these guys would be awesome in concert.
- Every now and then I rediscover music in my collection that I haven't thought about for a while, and the most recent rediscovery is the Concrete Blonde back-catalogue. Fine stuff.
- Kael's recently got me listening to the Killers' first album. (Or not so recently, I suppose, but the sampler he gave me back in June got lost in the shuffle.) The first four songs, for my money, are pretty much perfect; after that, I begin to get bored. I've only heard a remix of a song from the second album, so I don't know if they've shaken things up or not for the new release.
- Listening to them both earlier tonight, I realised that the Decemberists' The Sporting Life has some strong musical commonalities with Adam Ant's Goody Two Shoes. The former song's been my introduction to the band, so I'm left with the question: are the Decemberists new-new-romantics?
- The Impact is the Michigan State University student radio station, and it's pretty great. I find myself in range of their transmitters for almost an hour of my typical Long Drives, and I make a point of tuning in. One of the many songs I've discovered through them is Fred Jones part 2 by Ben Folds, which is possibly the saddest song I've heard all year. (It's also notable for featuring Special Guest Star: John McRae on harmony vocals. You might well think that the lead singer of Cake's voice is not particularly well-suited for blending with the voices of other humans, but he and Ben make it work quite well.)
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Oh yeah
Posted 06 Sep, 2006 at 20:40 by matt in /System | Permanent link
Today, in addition to being the birthday of one of the authors (hi Brent!), is the second bloggiversary of Dangling Conversations. Given that the front page still has posts from freakin' April on it, it's fair to say that the initial excitement has died down substantially.
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Memory: still like a whatchamacallit.
Posted 06 Sep, 2006 at 20:24 by matt in /Books | Permanent link
Had it not been for a stray comment in Neil Gaiman's blog, I might never have realised that Susanna Clark, author of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, also wrote one of my favourite stories in the Sandman: Book of Dreams anthology. I haven't picked up the volume since shortly after the Great Flood in my apartment over six years ago, and while I remember the story (Stopp't-Clock Yard) vividly, I had nothing to hang the author's name on in my mind at the time.
(Looking in the book now, it turns out that I still sort of follow the authors of my other two favourite stories; I've been reading Steven Brust for quite some time, and John M. Ford is one of the posters on Making Light.)