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Quicksilver

So yesterday I was chatting with Vivek and he asked me if I used Launchbar [http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/2409] or <a href=""http://www.blacktree.com/">Quicksilver... I sad no. He then promptly told me to download Quicksilver [http://download.blacktree.

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain was found on April 8th, 1994. It was a sad day for alt.rock music lovers around the world. Rolling Stone Magazine [http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=2862] has a collection of articles, reviews, and videos. On a related note, George Stroumboulopoulos [http://www.muchmusic.

I'm A Second Class Citizen

simplegeek [http://www.simplegeek.com/] has an posting [http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/cdd83cf1-e794-4fc8-b261-5b40223e7500] regarding how QA is often considered a second class citizen inthe whole dev process. The world for some reason doesn't consider the art of testing a long-term career.> "It's

More on the people that just don't get it

Federal Heritage Minister Helene Scherrer said that she is going to change the copywrite laws here in Canada to make P2P music sharing illegal once again. She said this during the opening of the Canadian Music Awards, the Junos.> "Copyrights have a value, and artists and songwriters would

File-sharing Opens Pandora's Box

File-sharing opens Pandora's box... or does it? An article [http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040401.wxmedia0401/BNStory] by David Akin (Globe and Mail) things that the new court ruling is a bad thing. But he doesn't get it... most people don't! Why

Daniel Gray Talks Conferencing

I routinely check Technorati [http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?PHPSESSID=05b3e8c10c0209345facd730a69974e5&rank=&url=genesys&sub=Go%21] for mentions of 'Genesys' (My current employer) to see what the world might have to say. Todays search brought up Daniel Gray's blog entry

Gloomy Pink Bloody Bear

So I was looking for a local store that sold Dark Horse Comics so I can buy the Megatokyo vol 1 and 2 graphic novels. I came across a site[magic-pony.com [http://www.magic-pony.com/category.php?category=plush]] that sold this instead: Oh dear....

April 1st Finally Over

So its finally over, April Fools was a good one this year, with tons spoofs and false news stories everywhere. Urgo.org [http://www.urgo.org] has a full list [http://www.urgo.org/aprilfools.html] of the days events. My personal favorite, which I did not see today, was

Search is Number Two Online Activity

The lead story that is sweaping the Internet today [http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/aprilfool2.html] is: "Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; "Heck, Yeah," Say Google Founders " says the press release [http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/gmail.html] from Google on

Fools back on the air

I don't have too many nice words to say about the show, I haven't liked it since it started and whenever I attempt to listen it appears that it hasn't changed. Supposedly Dean, Todd, and Jason allowed "Steve-o" and the rest of