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  • Forward Your Landline Apartment Buzzer to your Cell Phone

    Edit 2023-09-29: It’s been a few years since I wrote this post and we are no longer using this system, so this article may be somewhat out of date. User /u/Herbal_Tee on Reddit has helpfully posted about the changes they had to make to get these instructions working for them, so be sure to take…

  • Unstick a remote reboot

    Here’s a useful tip if you’ve ever tried performing a remote reboot of a server or workstation running Windows and had the reboot get hung up.

  • Google tweets a link about “encrypting your Gmail” that isn’t about encrypting your Gmail

    Google sent out a tweet earlier today with the following text: An easy way to encrypt your Gmail, from the Ontario Canada Privacy Commissioner (PDF) – http://bit.ly/uJlpQ It links to a white paper titled “If You Want To Protect Your Privacy, Secure Your Gmail”. It’s a guide about setting up the FireGPG Firefox extension, or…

  • Sync Facebook Events with your iPhone calendar

    Update 2009-08-22: Two new(ish) changes to report! The first is that with the release of iPhone OS 3.0, it is now possible to subscribe to Internet calendars directly from the device. The second is that NuevaSync now offers a premium service which includes push e-mail and up to 50 calendars. I’ve updated my post accordingly.…

  • punch me in the face

    My Creative Commons–licensed Flickr photo of magnetic letters on my sister’s fridge spelling out “punch me in the face” (complete with upside-down 3’s for e’s) has been in use on the “Refrigerator magnet” Wikipedia article for 768 days. This amuses me greatly.

  • The Lysine Contingency

    I had a dream last night that I got really drunk at a party, and that when I came to, I had two tattoos. One was on my right bicep, and it was a vertical series of strange graphics interspersed with words like “colour” and “fun”. On my left bicep was the logo for a…

  • Baseball

    I think the worst thing that could ever happen to me would be to go to the doctor and find out that I have a tumour the size of a baseball, because I hate baseball.

  • Jumpy

    …and that’s how I ended up with the chimpanzee in the trunk of my car. Are we… We’re live? We’re on? *straightens tie* Hello everybody! Welcome to my inter-net web-site! I’d like to tell you about something that’s been on my mind. I like drinking decaffeinated coffee. People always say “What’s the point?”, but I…

  • Tour 2007 – Day 5

    On the road. Typing this on my laptop in the back seat of Allan’s Dodge Caravan, the cargo area packed to the roof with drums, amps, and guitars. Surrounded on all sides by the majestic Rocky Mountains. Taking the Canmore exit to pick up some breakfast before we head on to Calgary. Played the Rose…

  • Show on Saturday

    Both of the bands I’m in are performing on Saturday, Feb. 10 at Steamers Pub. Jay Dunphy and the Religion and Annie Nolan are playing with The Vacant Lot. Show starts at 10pm. In other news, I’m doing a presentation at work tomorrow for a bunch of important people. Wish me luck.

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