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Sick of your fund manager/financial planner getting paid the fat sack while your overall returns suffer after you were convinced to invest in that Siberian icecube plant?! I HAVE! (more…)

Ever wonder why you can’t buy blank digipak cases for your CDs or DVDs? How come the jewel case rules the roost of blank media packaging? Well wonder no longer, some crack investigative reporting unravels the digipak conspiracy…

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Can you see my misspelled words?! Yes you can.
Take that Coldforged Wordpress Spell Checker!!!
Take that aspell!!!
3 minutes of use impressions:
-Glassy & Classy, default theme has been classed up a bit, home button looks a little gross.
-Spellcheck, I like it.
-Where’s my extensions? Oh, under Tools->Add-ons. Fair enough.

Get Firefox2, then finish your lunch (black bean wrap & grapefruit aw yeah!)

If your hosting service (bluehost) does not allow for gem installs (none will, or shouldn’t), don’t worry you can still get your silky smooth hands on all rubyforge has to offer. You can still install gems locally in the “vendor” directory under your rails app. This is sometime referred to as “expanding a gem” or “unpacking a gem” but when you hit the help that won’t help you , this is all that needs to be done:

- Go to vendor directory: cd railsapp/vendor

- Install the gem to that directory: gem install -i ./ gemname

Queue Staples Button.

When doing mindless office work, like mulitple copy/pastes, or data-entry I am lucky to stay on task for more then 5 minutes. When doing mindless physical activity like wieghtlifting, or running my body gives up before my mind does. I have found that by trying to exact the same workout mindset on monotonous, work related tasks, it seems to ease the mental non-strain of it all.
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We use to be on the dollar bill… THE DOLLAR BILL!!!!

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+1 Sunday

If you aren’t already on this, you’re sleeping. Whether a doctor, a 14 year-old with a sick MySpace, a techno super producer, CA, or a paid in full(time) geekboxer, having two monitors attached to your PC will change how you use any and all applications. Here is a mélange of points to consider whilst obtaining nirvana.

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When asked for my signature, the resultant deranged mark that I scrawl is enough to garner laughs from third graders. It is a series of quick condensed zigzags followed by an ever changing number of loops and dots. It is inconsistent, overly long, and hideous to look at. It is pretty much the same way I have signed my name since I was 9. Is it too late to change my signature?
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In 12 months I want to be kickin’ it in my own house. In the meantime I am hoping to be able to save up a reasonable down-payment. My strategy is far from mind blowing, but it goes like this: (more…)

David Mitchell number9dream 3/10

When reading a book becomes a chore, that should be a pretty good indicator that the time has probably come to put the book down. Granted, there are exceptions to this rule; texbooks and reference manuals. But if you are reading for pleasure, and that pleasure turns into a tedious task, put it down. Had I followed my own advice I would have dropped David Mitchell’s number9dream around page one hundred and forty-five.
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So I have had my iPod for awhile, and have just been manually managing songs when it gets full. LIKE A CHUMP! Turns out all you need to do is uncheck the checkboxes that appear next to the song and then they will be taken off your iPod. WOW! Of course I didn’t even realize this till iTunes 7 since there is no apparent way to get into your iPod’s “library” and start removing things, instead you just get a pretty iPod management screen with a bunch of tabs, where you can find my new favourite checkbox “Only synch checked items”. Call Robert Stack, another mystery solved.

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The first time I heard “Rock the Catskills” I basically shit my pants. (more…)

Let me begin by saying, I have never read Moby Dick and its expansive cetology notes. As well, my Heavy Metal knowledge is about as broad and deep as a paddling pool. But one can’t help but wonder if when Herman Melville sat down to write his whale of a tale that he would be spearheading the biggest Heavy Metal craze since skeletons….

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I cant wait for the Wii. I probably spend about 2 hours a day thinking and reading about it. This is a shockwave app that lets you make a Mii (nintendo avatar). Feel my obsession.

If there is one thing I learnt in Montreal, it’s that we all dress like 14 Year old hobos. (more…)