Monthly Archives: December 2005

Christmas Beards

Written on December 17, 2005 at 1:44 am, by

My friends over at the uhm.. the designer guys blog (designerguys.ca is released for registration Saturday @ 4pm hint hint) have Christmas beards going on, and are now starting to weigh in with updates, now 10 days into the event. Robert seems to be in the lead, as we’re still waiting for updates from the other contestants.Continue Reading

Hamachi!

Written on December 16, 2005 at 9:04 pm, by

Leave it to a fellow Canadian to come up with this. A free VPN P2P Secure Tunneling system. It’s awesome. Hamachi and Listen to the Podcast with Steve Gibson and some dude from TechTV  .. and watch for the word that Steve makes up.. "problematical?!"

Wikipedia does have some issues

Written on December 16, 2005 at 2:50 pm, by

The funniest Penny-Arcade I’ve read in a while. Anything with He-Man gets my approval.

Santa Stories or How I Ruined Christmas

Written on December 16, 2005 at 1:11 am, by

Just saw this on digg. Too funny. Although what’s actually really really creepy is that some of the Santas look like serial killers. Maybe I have high standards, but even if "it’s Santa" I don’t think I’d let my kids near some of these guys. Just a little FYI I was scared like crazy of mallContinue Reading

Clippy’s New Job

Written on December 7, 2005 at 9:28 am, by

Remember that annoying Office Assistant, "Clippy", that shipped with Office ’97 and into Office 2000 before he was canned with the release of Office XP? Well it seems he was so disgruntled after being layed off at Microsoft, he’s decided to start working with the Open Source community promoting firefox. I was browsing in IEContinue Reading