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2003

Spine.cx posts from the year 2003.

Christmas Oddities

Merry Christmas (or insert appropriate holiday here) to all you crazy kids out there. Hopefully e...

Company non-denominational holiday party 2003

Good times were had by all this past Friday night at the Halifax Curling Club...well, the people ...

The holiday meal of champions

Thanks to some bold reporting by Outersurf and some trepidacious link clicking of my own, I now k...

Pay what you want for music

I have recently found what I consider to be the most fantastic website that nobody's ever heard o...

Captain Morgan Private Stock

I don't know how many of you Spine Dorks are rum drinkers, but I surely am. Until recently, I th...

Personal computers as home entertainment centres

It's been mentioned in the forums a few times, so I'll bring it to the forefront. I think it's p...

Rememberance Day

If any of you guys are planning to be at a Rememberance Day ceremony, maybe we could meet there. ...

I have a confession to make

I did something I'm not proud of this weekend. It made me feel kind of dirty. Tainted. Unclean...

Steve goes to Wisconsin

Even though I went to Wisconsin before Juan hit, I thought that Juan was bigger news. The astute...

Hurricane Juan

So, I guess we had a hurricane. I almost wish I was here for it, but instead, I was stuck in a H...

HRM drops Clayton Park speed limits

The speed limits for quite a few streets coming off the Bedford Highway have been reduced to 40 k...

Springtime Fall = new roommate

So it seems that every year for the last 4, the spring fall brings with it the promise of a new r...

Nigerians get wise

For the first time in months, a Nigerian spam email has broken through my spam filter. It seems ...

New sections to the website

So there are parts to PHPNuke that I've never used yet, but I think I might start. Mike has writ...

Ryan & Sarah's housewarming

Photos from the kick-ass party I was at on the weekend past. There was much beer. I think I dra...

Nova Scotia International Air Show

Those of you who are in the know will already be aware that the Nova Scotia International Air Sho...

Spine.cx is two!

Today is the second anniversary of when I installed PHPNuke on spine.cx and made it the site it i...

Two weddings in as many weeks

One on July 26th, another on August 2nd. I'm actually kind of flattered that I got invited to tw...

Camping in the rain sucks

So, as the title of this article suggests, this weekend, I was camping in the rain and experience...

Tucker Max suit dropped by plaintiff

Tucker Max, internet personality, is generally regarded as an asshole -- he'll even admit it hims...

Frequent masturbation lessens risk of prostate cancer

From an article at CBC.ca: "Scientists in Australia determined that men in their 20s who ejacu...

Low-volume flush toilets are crap!

My dad has just renovated his house. New siding, and a completely new kitchen and bathroom. It ...

Happy Canada Day!

Spine.cx wishes Canada a happy 136th birthday. To give people something to comment on, how are...

At least we have our priorities straight

I thought, I'll test my theory of buying beer on Sunday and go down to the Cold Beer Store on Agr...

Some people are just weird

This actually happened a couple of days ago, but I forgot to mention it on the site. Something t...

What's there to do in Halifax in the fall?

Christine writes: "This coming October (I know, it's pretty far away) I will be travelling out e...

Why do I always get the crazy ones?

All I wanted to do was get some groceries. I finish going through the isles and head up to the c...

Ownership of Montreal Grill

The ownership of the Montreal Grill (the restaurant in the basement of the Bank of Montreal build...

TABU: Forbidden Fruit

Here is the second review of an alcoholic beverage ever done on Spine.cx. I'm not doing Baja Tan...

Palm Zire 71

At first, I was cheesed off because I had purchased an m515 about a month before the Zire 71 was ...

Group wants you to donate your $155 cheque to charity

According to several articles, including this one, a coalition of church groups want you to donat...

Greekfest 2003

This coming weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) is the planned date for Greekfest 2003. Exper...

FNP 7: The Matrix Get-Loaded

I know you're all waiting for them with baited breath, so here are the photos. Don't forget the ...

Bacardi Ciclon

Here at Spine.cx, we feel that it is important to provide the viewing public with not only review...

I am the champion

They say necessity is the mother of invention, and I guess they were right about that one. Being...

FNP 7: Crawl updates

Some further information for you crawlin' peeps to dig. The printers tell me the shirts will be ...

Camping trip 2003 redux

Just letting everyone know that the group campsite at Blomidon has been booked for the weekend of...

Somebody's getting a littering ticket

So, I'm standing on Hollis Street, minding my own business when out of nowhere, this truck drives...

The only thing worse than software problems...

Are hardware problems. I was very happy to finally get a new, up-to-date machine (2.4 GHz P4) ma...

Ads?! WTF!?

I have taken a big step with the website today. I decided to try offering textual ads for sale o...

Steve's Trip to Newfoundland

I'm back from Newfoundland. Saw a lot of relatives and made a lot of new acquaintances. Drank a...

No smoking in public in 2008

Halifax council has passed a legislation that will disallow smoking in public places except for s...

It's spring, and that means Pub Crawl

The preliminary rounds are over and now we're getting to the meat of this, the 2003 pub crawl sea...

New Photos of the FARK Party and New York

Finally, I am home and I have had a chance to get all the photos I have taken off of my camera an...

A day with Steve in Manhattan

Rants isn't really the right category for this, but I don't think an appropriate category exists....

Gone again - This time to NYC

I wasn't even back at work for a whole day before they decided to ship me off again to New York C...

Back from D.C.

Finally, I am home after leaving for two days and getting back a week later. The trip was useful...

Updates from the American Capital

Traffic is fucking insane. Worse than the 401 in a snowstorm. I was stuck in it about an hour b...

Software Developer Union

This may have been brought up before, but what the hell, lets bring it up again. First off this i...

Roll up the Rim is back!

Your favourite contest has re-appeared at your favourite coffee-and-donut shop. Yes, Roll-up-the...

Should elevator buttons be toggleable?

A co-worker of mine posed an interesting question about elevators. (Wouldn't my object oriented ...

Unsolicited email is the least of our worries

Most, if not all, of us receive some spam in their email. And we hate it. We curse the people w...

Anyone want to buy a '95 Taurus?

Yeah, I'm selling my car. I could only find one photo of it and it's of the rear. I'll try and ...

They keep building up, don't they?

I don't think I'll ever run out of things to rant about. Let me set the scene for you... It s...

Yo, peeps. This be a throwdown.

I don't know how many people outside my own office ski, but you are welcome to join Ray (who won'...

The weather sucks

It wasn't long ago that I was remarking how cold it was, but I would gladly trade the craptacular...

Television is to blame, yet again

Two brothers in California strangled and dismembered their mother, and obviously it is the result...

Holy crap it's cold

Does it seem unusually cold to any of you other Haligonians? Maybe it's just me, but I think it ...

Post your poll suggestions

It's clear that I suck at coming up with new polls. Post your suggestions for new ones here. Th...

Crappy hardware free-for-all

I am giving away a bunch of old hardware that is not necessarily crappy, as the title of this art...

Free tickets to see old men play hockey!

First person to post in this article (that wants them) gets two tickets: Oldtimers' Hockey Cha...

Smoking in the HRM

As many people know (and relish!) a new bill concerning smoking in public places has come into ef...

Virtual Beer Bash?

What do you all think about attempting a virtual beer bash? Webcams, headphones, Yahoo Messeng...

Pub Crawls

Late last year, a number of people were asking me when the next pub crawl was going to be. If yo...

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2003. It doesn't really feel any different, does it? And where the hell are the flyin...