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Canadian Press Style Book

When I hastily made my depart from BC TEL I left behind one of my most useful books. Finally I got around to ordering another one. Curiously, this one you CAN’T get from Amazon. Pity. -Ian. —=— http://www.cp.org/bookl.htm New edition of The Canadian...

RBOCs investment in local loop protected..

So I’m unclear… is this good or bad for broadband? On one hand it allows them to invest in DSL etc. without having to worry about giving others access to the network, but on the other it still forces them to lease DSL to their competitors. I think...

Slashdot on Desktop Internet Telephony

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/09/11/231258 This response in particular got my attention: Check out Speakfreely at http://www.speakfreely.org. It’s Open Source, has versions for both Windows and Linux, and the versions for both OSs can talk to each other....

Relax, don’t do it…

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome defame? I felt the same way watching Front242 playing @ Lollapalooza in 1992. That spandex was just way too tight. Prepare yourself though, here’s a gig that will really make the 1980s seem tired: 22-07-99...

ARGH! Twice now..

There’s some sort of bug on the egroups server where if you nuke someone it doesn’t always “take”. I had to do it six times before it worked. The list serv probably cannot delete Ed if it’s currently processing a message from him. Damnit....

ARGH! I shut him off again.

..took me a while though. —– Received: from Microserve-Message_Server by penne.microserve.ca with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:32:45 -0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5 —– Reason #45,023 why I hate Novell....

Just when you thought…

Just when you thought there aren’t enough bogus lawsuits these days: –=– http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/eo/19990914/en/19990914011.html Tuesday September 14 12:43 PM EDT Beverly Hills Cop vs. George Michael Marcelo Rodriguez has had enough. Who’s...

Abusing the Internet…

Gord: You bitch! And your mother, too! -Ian. Gordon Ross wrote:> > Oops. Never mind, don’t call that number. > > Gord. > > Gordon Ross wrote: > > > > And now call… (800) 365-4578 > > > > Quick! > > > > Gord. > > > > eTunnels: Gersham Meharg wrote: > > > >...

Abusing the Internet…

No. Can you imagine how many people are calling this chick’s pager now that it’s flying around the internet? Pretty soon she’s gonna get a call from her provider… 🙂 God, I’m still laughing. -Ian. Gordon Ross wrote:> > Wow. That was great...