Old phone saves victim’s life
Quite an amazing story... read it. (let's put it this way... it took him over two days to get to the phone)
Slovakia 3, Canada 2. Damn.
Canada is out of the World Hockey Championships, having lost to Slovakia in the Quarter-finals.
I'm pretty pissed off about us not winning this tournament. Check this out from today's Sportsnet.ca Hockey Sportsmailer:
Here are the members of the 2002 men's Olympic hockey team who were ousted early in the first round: Martin Brodeur, Ed Jovanovski, Simon Gagne, Joe Nieuwendyk, Michael Peca, and Scott Niedermayer.
And here are the ones who made the trip to Sweden to help out Team Canada in the World Championship: Ryan Smyth and Eric Brewer. [Jim: Both of whom play for the Edmonton Oilers. Also note 3 other non-Olympian Oilers are playing for Canada in the worlds]
Okay, Lemieux has hip problems, and Peca was crippled by Darcy Tucker in the first round, but what about the rest of those chumps, eh? Look at Smyth: He played on a bum ankle for half the season, for the Olympics, and now for Canada again. He's every bit as inspirational as Steve Yzerman is and then some because there's no money and no Stanley Cup at the end. And Brewer is playing his way into the elite of the league. For a kid, the experience he's getting and the leadership he's gaining is going to make him one of the brightest stars in the NHL for a long long time.
So a big fat raspberry goes out to the boys who didn't play in Sweden (sorry, Jarome, we love you, but would it have hurt you to go?) and a great big smooch to the two proud Oilers who are helping Canada continue this incredible year of hockey dominance."
Amen.
I need advice on FireWire hard drives
I need to buy a FireWire hard drive. The drive will be used as the main (boot) drive between a PowerMac G4 and a PowerBook G3 (Pismo).
'Dis is da plan:
When I'm working at home, I have the drive plugged into PowerMac, I boot from it, it has my home directory, development environment, projects, etc. When I have to travel somewhere to work, I unplug the drive from my PowerMac and plug it into my Pismo, and have my Pismo boot from it. This way, I keep my work environment with me when I'm on the road.
So, I need the drive to be fast, probably 5,400 RPM, otherwise it will slow the PowerMac down to a crawl. If I go 7,200 RPM it'll probably eat my PowerBook's batteries so fast I wouldn't be able to get any work done on it on a plane or in an airport.
It should be small so I can put it in my laptop bag, but that doesn't mean it has to use a 2.5" drive. It must be able to be used without an AC adaptor on the PowerBook.
If you know of a good candidate external hard drive for this scenario, please let me know! Thanks!
EU to tax Internet download sales
Yahoo! News: EU plans to tax Internet sales, angering US trade authorities
Can someone explain to me how the EU has any jurisdiction over how businesses outside the EU bill their customers?
RE: ‘Hip Club’ to offer fans extra music
Here's Matt Goyer's take on the Hip's music club. I agree 100%. The Hip rock.
"The RIAA is sinkin' man, and I don't wanna spin!"
That’s horseradish, bub
Fresh Wasabi: About Wasabi
Mmm... I want to try some real wasabi.
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