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A Canadian Takes Stage In Iron Chef America

Last night chef Rob Feenie [http://www.foodtv.ca/tv/hosts/hostdetails/host_24185.asp] stepped into the kitchen stadium [http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ia/text/0,,FOOD_16696_27031,00.html] to face off against Masaharu Morimoto [http://www.chefmorimoto.com/] using the nights special ingredient of

Nuns Amuck

ROTFL! > Twelve American nuns have been suspended from their convent after going on an alcohol and sex fuelled holiday. The women, all aged between 22 and 31, went on the Club 18-30 holiday without telling anyone where they were going. On returning from the debauched break last week and

Competition And All

I enjoy competition and all in software, I think its healthy... I just wish that competitors didn't resort to trash talk to sell a product. More people need to get on the train [http://www.cluetrain.com/] before entering business of any kind these days. Just my two

New URL, Same Great Taste

You can find us at http://www.slakinski.com from now on, the old urls still work but I thought this one makes more sense.

SHA-1 Bites The Dust

> SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing. sigh I liked SHA-1 over MD5... Larger versions of SHA are to big for simple hash functions... so I guess its back to MD5 again. -- Full Story [http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/

IE7?

Scoble [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/02/15.html#a9442] and Dean [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/02/15/373104.aspx] reports: > "...we’re committing to deliver a new version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP customers. Betas of IE7 will be available this summer.

First Post

Way back in Sept 25, 1993 I asked [http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.radio.pirate/browse_thread/thread/42717c407e38d83/13216992be56b2cd?q=%22ray+slakinski%22&_done=%2Fgroups%3Fq%3D%22ray+slakinski%22%26start%3D90%26scoring%3Dd%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26c2coff%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26&_doneTitle=Back+to+

Carly is out!

HP fires Carly Fiorina, the one that brought Compaq and HP together... I wonder why, and so does engadget who broke this story [http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000630030918/] to me first.

Comic/Graphic Novel Review Podcast

Dave Slusher in his latest podcast [http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2005/02/07#050207_01] asked for a good comics review podcast, now I don't think I am either A) versed enough in comics to say anything overly important. B) I don't think

Niagara Falls

Ray and I went away on Friday night to Niagara Falls for a little getaway. I have been cooped up in the house too long, and since I had to start back at work again (from home) today, I wanted a change of scenery. We got a pretty good deal