Weather here in Montreal is roughly -20c with high winds. Basically it feels like about -40 degrees (c OR f). What better day for a bus to be 30 minutes late than this morning? Especially when a light dusting of snow yesterday caused the bus to take over 1 hour to cover the 5 km (~3 miles) between the office and the subway station.
This is fucking ridiculous. If you don’t have a car, don’t take a job in Montreal’s Techno-Parc. In winter you’ll freeze your balls off. Or die of boredom in traffic. Or both.
Nothing says “I wish I had finished college” better than a whimpering face covered in the semen of twelve men.
Awkward adventures at the porno store. Sordid and often funny tales of a porn shop clerk somewhere in the USA.
Bad: parts of Vista make your PC slower, less reliable and less secure. Worse: you can’t turn them off.
DRM in Windows Vista. You know, it’s actually getting quite difficult to find anyone who recommends switching to Vista and who isn’t also either a)working for Microsoft or b)just plain yanking your chain.
How to mess with the Japanese, in Japan.
Fun ways to fuck with Japanese people’s heads, by Chad the evil gaijin!
An interesting issue with Rails
Ruby on Rails (or RoR) is a framework that prides itself on being really easy to get started with, and it is… to an extent. Here’s the message I got when I had finished installing it and tried to access it…
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
Not a particularly useful error message. You have to dig through application logs and decipher the issue yourself. But the kicker is that this is the response to a basic permission error with the [project]/tmp directory created by the rails command, which I diagnosed and fixed. Still, shouldn’t RoR have been able to detect or maybe not cause the problem?
Adventures in Car Rental: 2007 Mercedes-Benz C280 4matic
Car rental companies have come a long way since the bad old days of rent-a-wreck. Nowadays if you pay a little extra you get to try out cars that you probably wouldn’t own, and that’s what I decided to do last weekend for a road trip.
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Not great: to get to work I must catch the last bus which leaves a subway station at 9:10, or I must catch a cab which costs me over $20. Bad: the train is delayed. Worse: it’s delayed because it’s standing still in the station. Worst: it’s standing still in the station next to the one where I catch the bus while I’m getting steamed up and impatient. There’s not much I can do about the STM’s apparent inability to make the trains run on time, but I’m starting to think that maybe I should work at a place that’s a little more convenient to get to…
The guy explains it so well, I’m just as confident that the email is genuine!
Burkina Faso is the new Nigeria. I’ll give you 419 good reasons to trust these guys…
How much more blatant does it get?
Microsoft steals feature from an independent developer… then patents it. No really, this is the patent claim filed by Microsoft. As you can clearly see from the main article, Redmond is claiming to have invented this feature several months after having admitted that the feature was taken from the other developer. This means that they are out-and-out lying in their patent application. In fact some may claim that the patent application itself is fraudulent. I’m curious to see how that turns out.
Not a market so much as a pyramid scheme?
How much are your Linden dollars really worth? Apparently it’s loads easier to invest in than to cash out, and your real-world profit is unlikely to beat even anemic savings account rates.