Mary dropped off my dry cleaning today. They charge 4.50$ for each tie and six-something for suit coats. I’m having two ties and a coat cleaned and it cost more to clean two ties than it did to clean an entire suit coat. Seems a bit backwards to me.
Author: Kim Siever
Kim Siever is an independent queer journalist based in Lethbridge, Alberta, and writes daily news articles, focusing on politics and labour.
Google Weather and Movies
Google is really on a roll. First it was their Google Maps that took the Internet by storm. Now they’ve released weather and movie services.
Fingerprint Logons
Someone here at the Faculty of Management just bought an IBM ThinkPad T42. It’s hard to find anythign cool about laptops nowadays, but this one manages to implement something.
Fingerprint security.
Netscape 8.0
Netscape has released a public beta version of Navigator 8.0.
Google Maps Goes North
It looks like Google has extended its map database north of the 50th parallel.
Michael Jackson a Drunk?
Todd Dominey pointed out the oddity of E! Online’s pseudo-logo for the Michael Jackson trial.
Firefox 1.0.1 Now Available
Mozilla Foundation has released version 1.0.1 of its most popular browser, Firefox.
Misspelling My Name
Jason bemoans the ignorance of many persons in misspelling his name. While I certainly cannot say I have experienced the same issues given that I have a single last name, I have experienced many issues with my name.
My full name is Kim Jason Joseph Benoit Siever.
What Do You Look Like?
Cameron asks everyone to post screenshots of their current projects. Veerle asks everyone to post photos of their current workspace. It only make sense someone would ask everyone to post photos of what they currently look like. I might as well be that person.
Database Integration with Flash
Dennis’ solution was exactly what I needed. Well, actually, not quite what I needed. His solution worked for getting the data from the database and importing it to Flash. That was the biggest hurdle. What it did not do was allow for importing separate records. So I modified it.
