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In more topical news, what's the deal with "Canadian" being a code-word for, well, a racial slur ? I mean, c'mon guys, calling someone a Canadian has no negative connotations. At least, not on the scale it's being used. That is some seriously messed up word-play. For whatever reason that escapes me now, my friend pointed out that he has banned Denny's from his list of diners, and directed me to Denny's hefty list of racial discrimination lawsuits . I might just well do the same, although it seems somewhat unfair to impugn an entire restaurant chain based on the actions of a few locations, as extreme as those actions seem to be. Well, there aren't that many Denny's around here anyway. I generally go to Fran's for my Toronto diner fix. And finally, Heath Ledger is dead? Huh. I suppose I'd always figured him to be a goofy young member of the latest brat pack, to perhaps become serious with his part in The Dark Knight. Now I just... sleeping p...

Confound it! I spent a couple hours Saturday attempting to get my OLPC to work with my WPA connection. Unfortunately it very much appears that I'll have to wait until they release a patch, as my varied manual attempts garnered little success. There really does appear to be some kind of odd 10 character minimum or the like at work with the passphrase. Maybe I'll get the gumption to try again later, but for now it's pretty much a disappointment at home. So fiddling with my wireless involved re-booting my router, which I seem to always forget makes it lose its virtual settings and so that's why hwan.com wasn't available today. Sorry! Not that you missed much. I spent the weekend at home, sleeping, watching the second season of 30 Rock as well as the first season of the American The Office. A much different type of humour, but it's nice to see the translation from the original UK version. Our office has become quite the games-atorium, what with Go , backgammon, St...

Woo, 30 Rock is one funny show! Man, it really manages to tickle me all over. I just saw the Werewolf Bar Mitzvah episode (season 2, episode 2): "Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves!" Heh, good stuff. A fire alarm drill at work this week got me acting on a desire to get a good white noise mp3 or generator or the like, to drown out the annoyance and any future annoyances. I did, eventually, find one but it was MacOSX only and figuring out how to copy it into MP3 form was not obvious (though I thought it was). I also learned that you actually want pink noise , which is softer on the ears or some such thing. In any case, I ended up with (thanks to a co-worker's Google help) Aire Freshener (scroll down to download directly), an excellent charity-ware Windows application. With my new Grado's this allows me to work with minimal intrusion from the outside.. and I can pretend it's spring time, or that I'm by the fireplace, or even in the bath. The program itself ...