THE TENSION: Conservatives Take Canada
That’s one way to put it. Others are talking about a shift to the right. Not sure about this. Continue reading Right?
Virage à droite?
Viens de finir de regarder la couverture télé des élections. Assez intéressante, comme situation.
Pour répondre à une amie qui croit y voir un virage à droite, petite analyse à chaud.
Bandname: Rest
With a band named Rest, some possible titles for songs or even albums:
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the K Chronicles: "One Day in Ye Olde White House.."
Keith Knight
À propos!
The Chicago Archives of Alcohol: A self-guided tour
examples of Chicago’s alcohol-drenched history
Mentions the Lager Beer Riot of 1855 but focuses on bars that opened later in the 19th century and operated during the prohibition.
Continue reading The Chicago Archives of Alcohol: A self-guided tour
First week with an emachine H3070
Bought this refurb’ed emachines H3070 online through BestBuy.ca (the online store for Best Buy Canada). Got the machine on December 30. Relatively painless order process. Had been waiting for some “Boxing Day” sales (on December 26, the equivalent of Black Friday in Canada). Got the machine for 399$. With taxes (15% in Quebec) and express shipping (around 11$): 473$. Not bad. Got a 15″ CRT monitor at a pawn shop for 22$. So a true sub-500$ system. In Canadian dollars.
New WordPress
Just started to try out this new version of WordPress. Been working on a blog for a research project on "Thinking Globalization Through Music."
WP 2.0 seems pretty neat. The interface is better, more efficient. Several features added directly to the post-writing page.
Like the fact that it's freely hosted. Good way to try out a few things. The hosted version is pretty barebones and we can't install plug-ins, but it's pretty decent. Certainly on par with Blogspot (Blogger) in terms of simply hosting and a bit more convenient as a way to publish posts. Still can see value in hosting it ourselves.
emachines Power Supply
Already got to replace the power supply on my new (refurbished) emachine H3070. Got the unit on December 30, it’s January 9.
This might be useful to someone else. Couldn’t find much info online right away. Eventually called a rep.
No Buy NoHo
Something in which we can participate. Will it stop consumerism? Nope. Will it make a statement? Yup.