http://blog.foolsjourney.ca Steps Along One Fool's Journey Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:41:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, long time no post.  Not that I have much of importance to say with this post, mind you - mostly I'm going to rant about a variety of little things that went wrong today.  Seems like somebody dropped a Broken Bomb on the city and there's shrapnel everywhere. To start the ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=20 This is my first attempt at writing a game review for this blog, and strangely enough it's not even a game for the new Wii I got for Christmas.  I feel like I haven't played a lot of those games enough to give them a fair review yet (though I'm ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=19 Since I've been living in Halifax, I'd almost forgotten how much of a rag the Fredericton newspaper is.  The Daily Gleaner seems to have one of the worst editorial/proof-reading staff around, based solely on the sheer number and prominence of embarassing typos in the paper.  Consider three examples from the ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=18 Recently I've come to the realization that a lot of people use the word "boo-urns" in a totally different way than it should be used.  They seem to be using it to mean the same thing as "boo", i.e. to express their disagreement or disapproval of something.  For instance, "No ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=17 Around the Christmas season, it's not that there are that many big things going on, but an excessive number of small things.  And so, here are some snippets of interesting things I've been privy to. - Jordan had a bunch of us over to his place on Thursday night, and Kim ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=16 Kim took her laptop in to be serviced at Staples at the start of December; something in the power chain had been wonky for several weeks, with the laptop sometimes refusing to switch to AC power and charge the battery when plugged into a wall outlet via the AC adapter.  ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=15 Two nights ago, as I was drowsing, I was curious: how long a post could I author, always following a particular constraint on my vocabulary?  I know that a full book of many thousand words is a possibility (Gadsby), but how good is it?  Did you know that a "Simpsons" man, ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=13 If it had been up to me, we probably would have put our Christmas tree up this weekend, or if we had been too busy, sometime in the next week.  However, it was not up to me, and so the tree itself was standing in our living room as of November 28th or so, ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=12 Q: What do my website and a wall in our condo's basement have in common? A: They were started over the summer, but left unfinished for several months, until this past week or so. The following is a reasonably picture-heavy account of how my father and I replaced an old crappy wall ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=11 It's official - I've finally gotten around to posting on this blog that I set up almost six months ago.  I've actually got two more entries worth of stuff that I'll be posting shortly, but both contain copious amounts of pictures that I am still getting resized for web use.  ... http://blog.foolsjourney.ca/?p=10