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  • A Fuck You to PlayTV Canada

    UPDATE (Dec. 5 2009): There is some fruitful discussion of this scam going on over at, um, “another blog”: See Play TV Canada is a Scam and Play TV Canada Has No Legs. I see this “show” on sometimes when I flip on the TV before bed, and I can’t turn away. It’s the most…

  • Normal Activity

    It’s Halloween time, so as one would expect, many ghostly happenings have been … happening. A few nights ago I had a lovely date night with myself. I got some snacks and some wine, turned off all the lights except for a single candle, and sat down to watch a scary movie. I’d never seen…

  • RIP Geocities

    Today, Geocities, one of the earliest free web hosting companies, is shutting down. SAD FACE. I joined Geocities way back when it was called Geopages. This was in 1995, when it was organized into “neighbourhoods” (this was pre-Google, so the web had to be organized into hierarchies of links or you couldn’t find anything), and…