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2001

Spine.cx posts from the year 2001.

My New Year's Party

Here's the ultimate test of how accurate a guesser I am of the size (or lack thereof) of this web...

Merry Christmas!

So Christmas is here....I want to hear all your stories about visiting with relatives and/or in-l...

Universal to render significant portion of CD players useless

While implementing their "copy protection" scheme for music CDs, Universal Music will be simultan...

Theatre room renovations: Part 1

For those of you that are interested, I've been documenting the renovation of my home theater roo...

I'm number 5!

I finally have something to be proud of. I'm the fifth most screwed up individual on the Interne...

Build a computer controlled VCR

Our friends over at SandyWalsh.com have an interesting article on building a computer controlled ...

Eastlink screws the pooch

If anybody reading this gets their Internet connectivity via Eastlink Cable in Halifax, they may ...

What the heck is with MSN Messenger lately?

Has anyone else noticed that MSN Messenger keeps kicking you off every couple of minutes, seeming...

Choose an icon for the Games topic

I need help choosing an icon. Right now the icon for the "games" topic is a Dreamcast. This is ...

Watch women beat each other with sticks

I attended my first Dalhousie Women's Hockey Team game on Sunday afternoon, and it wasn't an enti...

Holy retro, Batman!

None of the following text is mine, but I thought it was really interesting. Read it, and see ho...

Pan & scan Grinch vs widescreen Grinch

This is something I really don't understand. Amazon.com is selling two versions of How the Grinc...

Burger King makes Whopper for left handed people

Am I the only one who thinks this is total and complete crap? Read this press release and see ...

My Television is Calibrated

I finally managed to get my television calibrated by a professional. His name is Gregg Loewen, a...

Forums.spine.cx

Right now, the forums (where all future photoshops will go) are totally seperate from this main s...

New Halifax news site

My brother, who runs Twisted Pair Network Consulting, Inc. has started a site dedicated to Halifa...

Spank the monkey

Another in the long line of Flash games that never cease to amuse me. You can actually spank a m...

Remembrance Day Ceremony Photos

Photos from the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Grand Parade in downtown Halifax. I didn't take ...

Stupid socialists protest outside empty building

I'm up in my office right now, looking down at the Nova Scotia Legislature, 12 floors below and a...

Poppy supply running out. Steve's Remembrance Day rant blamed.

Canadians have snapped up Remembrance Day poppies this year at a clip normally reserved for the l...

Do your own photoshops

I don't have a high enough normal article to photoshop article ratio to keep posting all the "pho...

Photoshop Beer Factor Crawlers

Photoshop this sorry group of pub crawlers :) Original: Originally posted on Sunday, 2001-1...

Beer Factor Epilogue

Feelin' No Pain IV: Beer Factor is over and I consider it to be a smashing success. I think eve...

Remembrance Day

I can't believe that some people sleep in on Remembrance Day. If you haven't already, go t...

Stupid Haligonians

I know I haven't really posted anything at all this week, but give me a break. I'm on vacation. ...

Holiday Logos

I've been inspired by Google to come up with some holiday or special event-based logos for this w...

Snow White DVD may be glitchy with XP

Proud owners of Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system may find that they can't play one of ...

Small girl, large soldier

I think this photo has something to do with the IRA disarming recently, but I can't view the whol...

DJ Jazzy Jeff @ Merrill's

Yes, you read that correctly. DJ Jazzy Jeff, of DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince fame, is coming...

Episode I

I have a bad feeling about this... Original: Originally posted on Saturday, 2001-10-20 at 2...

Moderation of comments

I'm working on a way for users to be randomly given the ability to moderate comments. This may ...

Sports pics are almost too easy...

New York Yankees' Jorge Posada, right, slides safely into second base after hitting a shot to rig...

Halifax anthrax scare

A Halifax firefighter [in a wacky outfit -SD] sprays down a colleague outside Purdy's Wharf tower...

Pitbulls are damn tough, apparently

According to this article, it takes 7 shots from 9mm service pistol, or several blasts from a sho...

Some people shouldn't use computers

I had the chance to correspond with a lovely individual today, whom I'll tell you about. Suffice...

Cool stop-motion animation

A friend of mine told me about this friend of hers who made his first stop-motion animated film. ...

Mr. Leather 2002

In an interesting twist of fate, I happen to have some photos from the Mr. Leather 2002 contest h...

Bert is Evil shut down

In the wake of Bert appearing in photos with Osama bin Laden in a Bangladesh-made poster, the Ber...

Come up with a caption for this pic

Similar to the photoshop idea, I suppose you could photoshop it if you like, but the real challen...

Subway Sign

Here's what to do: Take this photo below and mangle it, distort it, change it. Bend it to your ...

Encode radio stations to MP3 in realtime with your phone

Damn. I think I want this. Nokia has announced new model of cell phone that can not only play b...

Why didn't anybody cheat on Just Like Mom?

Remember the game show Just Like Mom? It was basically like the Newlywed game except it was a ...

E-Payment options for FNP IV

After much tribulation, people can finally pay online for crawl t-shirts via one of two methods: ...

Television shows in 16 x 9

So far this year, I've noticed three shows being broadcast in a 16 x 9 aspect ratio (1.78 : 1): ...

Yee Haw! Ride it, yeah!

An Afghan horse trader leads his horses through the mountainous area of the Khyber Pass headed to...

Buy yourself an ass-kicking

This guy, at some point in the past, had a very interesting auction running on Ebay. Unfortuna...

Building a Home Theatre

I'm getting quite serious about the whole home theatre thing. I'm planning to completely remodel...

Courtney Love Sues Ex-Nirvana Members

In a move destined to keep the final recorded works of Nirvana out of fans' hands for many months...

Thow your hands up in the air!

Here's the second half of the double-shot to keep you occupied :) Original: Originally post...

J-Lo's wedding

Go on. Tear it up. Just no cocks this time, please :) Original: Originally posted on Mond...

Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2001/2002 Season Premiere

Click below for my review of season premiere of BTVS. There may be some spoilers, so if you have...

Portable MP3 Player on the cheap

Found a link to a technology company selling a portable MP3 player that can use Compact Flash car...

Removing the WTC from films

Recently, I read a review of "Zoolander" in which it was stated that the World Trade Center tower...

Acts of Gord

I came across a hilarious web site run by the proprietor of a store that rents and sells video ga...

Let's try another

The last one worked pretty well, but this time I think I have a better picture :) Feel free to s...

FARK does it, I can too.

You know what to do. Go forth and bastardize this picture. Post your results in the comments se...

Thong Contest @ The Copper Penny

I've heard many accounts that your favorite bar (and mine), the ol' Copper Penny will be putting ...

Wheeeeeeeeee!

I posted this story about a stupid squirrel in a flash video and I was like, "Wheeeeeeeeee!" Ori...

Snow Jam Schedule

After seeing the Snow Jam schedule in The Coast I thought to myself, "What a service it would be ...

Planes Crash into World Trade Center

Everybody's heard about this by now, I'm sure. Two planes have crashed into the Word Trade Cente...

Feelin' No Pain IV - T-shirts & Schedule

The semi-traditional date change has taken place, the theme has been decided, the bars and times ...

Photos from NSIAS 2001

I've just posted some photos from the Nova Scotia International Air Show. I got kind of frustr...

Put the Home in Home Theatre

Browsing the messageboards at the Home Theatre Forum and I came across a link to The Crutchfield ...

Date and Theme for FNP IV (Finally) Set

After much bruhaha, the date and theme for Feelin No Pain IV have finally been nailed down. Nu...

Nova Scotia International Air Show

The Nova Scotia International Air Show (formerly the Shearwater International Air Show) is going ...

Prequel to "Silence of the Lambs" being remade

I read over at SandyWalsh.com that they're redoing the movie known as Manhunter, only this time i...

Donairs

I'm not sure how many of you have had the exquisite experience of eating a donair, but it's an e...

Sign up for Feelin' No Pain IV

People can now sign up for Feelin' No Pain IV: here. Here's where the fun starts...let's see if...

This Site is UGLY!

Yeah, I know this site is pretty damn ugly. I don't pretend to be any good at picking colors and...

Steve's DVD Forum 2.0

Steve's DVD Forum version 2.0 is now up and running. Hopefully, most people won't even notice th...

Feelin' No Pain IV

Well, it's been almost two months since last we talked. It's time to start thinking about the n...

First Post!

This is kind of a test of this new-fangled system PHPNuke. It's pretty neat, but may be overkill...