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2004

Spine.cx posts from the year 2004.

A tale of Christmas woe

Ok, so listen up because I've got a story to tell. A story of Christmas woe. It'll break your h...

Fid

I had two of my intrepid (read: unpaid) reporters go and check out Fid, one of the restaurants f...

Finally, some new photos

Yeah, I've been a real slack ass when it comes to taking photos lately. Anyway, I finally have s...

Plastic money

I had a startling revelation about how I perceive money today. I was at the mall, buying a CD (y...

Track your money

Ever wonder where your money goes when it leaves your grubby little hands? I don't mean your "mo...

Rememberance Day

I've said it last year and a few years ago too. Everyone should come out to a Rememberance Day c...

CBC continues to impress me

I am impressed again and again with the CBC. Most recently, I became aware that CBC is offering ...

Go Vote!

This is it. The day we've all been waiting for. The Sunday Shopping Plebicite! Make sure you get ...

Laptops vs. Desktops

I have never really wanted a laptop, but I managed to get one from work in a game of chance. I st...

Spine.cx has a new home

Spine.cx was moved yesterday from its previous home in the basement of the building on the corner...

Sunday shopping plebiscite

It's that time again. Time to think about Sunday shopping. Surely you didn't forget about the p...

The Village

I saw The Village last week. Didn't really have time to write about it though. This is M. Night...

Today I saw a power bar explode

Today I saw something I've never seen before. Nor do I ever expect to see it again. It was the ...

Chixdiggit!

One of my favourite bands, Chixdiggit!, is playing in Halifax tomorrow (Friday) night at Stage 9....

I've been a slacker

I know, I know...I haven't posted anything in over a week. I'm a big slacker. Well, here's some...

Cool Blue Halo Live at Tribeca

My roommate bought this portable electronic media player the other day. It's very cool because i...

Those damn conservatives

This time they've gone too far. Well, maybe not too far, but certainly far enough for me not to ...

Eyesores be gone

They are finally tearing down the decrepit, condemned, old parking garage on the corner of Granvi...

A contest

I have had a black Simple Plan t-shirt, size large, donated to me by a generous benefactor. It d...

Songs for short attention spans

Find modern songs too long to listen to? Can't wait to hear the closing chords and get on to som...

The most fucked up things happen to me

What's the last thing you would expect when you wake up in the morning? For me, the last thing I...

I got to ride a Segway

Yeah! I was at the Technology museum in San Jose today and I got to ride a Segway. At first, it'...

You gotta fight for your right

From: Dragos Ruiu To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: Caveat Lector: Beastie Boys Evil Dat...

Downtown power outage

They couldn't have picked a better day for a transformer explosion: Sunny, 25° I'm standing by ...

My birthday party

So, yeah, my party happened on Saturday night. I'm still working on getting the webcam's photos ...

My Friday night

Friday was Jeanine's birthday, so a bunch of people went out for drinks and eats at Mexicali Rosa...

Steve: 0, Beef: 1

I've done some stupid things in the past. Some of them really stupid. This ranks up there with ...

Bomb scare in my neighbourhood

Ok, so I'm driving home and the street one block down from me is roped off with police tape. Cop...

My birthday party

My 28th birthday is on the 1st of June. Since that's a Tuesday, I'm throwing a party the followi...

Beers, beers, beers

Recently, some beers have made me curious. Some because they have no carbs, and some because the...

Point Pleasant Park reopens June 4th

Just like the title says, Point Pleasant is scheduled to reopen for general use on Friday, June 4...

Gas and mouthwash

These gas price increases have gone on long enough, so I thought it was about time to write a ful...

My new toy

I love getting new pieces of electronics. It's like Christmas; the sweet smell of virgin circuit...

Why Free standards are better

The reason I prefer Free, open standards is because shit like this can't happen. People expected...

Hardware failures

Of all the pieces of hardware in a computer that could possibly fail, the most annoying is a hard...

Best. Monitor. EVAR.

I think anyone who's ever written a client/server architected program has either basked in the gl...

Canadian women win gold

The Canadian women have done it again: won a world hockey championship. There was definately so...

Downloading music in Canada is now 100% legal

A Canadian court has rejected a motion that would have allowed file sharing netizens to be sued. ...

New photos

I figured if I was going to start posting more frequently, I would go out and actually take some ...

A night of free drinking

Hold on just a minute, this isn’t something I’m offering to the general public; rather, it’s some...

FNP 8: Because drinking is half the battle

Yeah, I know it's been over a week since I last posted something on the main page, but honestly, ...

My bus is an elevator

That's right. On my bus, people get in, stare at the door, and do not talk to anyone else for th...

The "new" Merrill's

I'm worried about Merrill's. It's been an institution in my perception of the downtown scene for...

Complete. Total. Ineptitude

I'm not sure if the title yet applies to the HRM employees or the retarded fuckers on the road th...

Undergrads

Undergrads, one of the best animated shows ever, in my opinion, has finally come out on DVD, but ...

The WB cancels Angel

The WB network has announced the cancellation of one of my favourite shows, despite increased rat...

FireFox

For anyone who doesn't yet know about the best web browser out there, here it is: Firefox. Prev...

Tidbits from Slashdot

There a couple of links from Slashdot that I found very poignant to whom I think my readers are ;...

RealPlayer with no spyware

The BBC uses real media format to stream their videos and such, but were annoyed (as we are) that...

Bubba Ho-Tep being shown at Park Lane

Many of you probably have never heard of such a movie. Those of you who have will know that it's...

Pixar ends relationship with Disney

After putting out several films together, such as Monsters Inc., Toy Story, and most recently Fin...

New $100 bill

Not to be outdone by the American's $20 bill, the Canadian government has released a new $100 bil...

Sir Bill of Microsoft

Is it just me, or is the Queen of England knighting people like it's going out of style? Origina...

No scents is good sense

"No scents is good sense", or so the new signs in my office tell me. It's supposed to be the sta...

Alexander Keith's becoming the top beer in Canada?

Read a story in the Daily News today that said the president of Labatt Breweries of Canada wants ...

HDTV and why you should get it

So, Eastlink recently started offering a new set-top box that can decode and display HDTV. "Why ...

Winter driving

You would think that we, as Canadians, would have this winter driving thing all worked out by now...

Kodak says, "Screw film, I never liked it anyway."

Kodak has decided to stop producing and selling film cameras in the United States, Canada, and Eu...

New year, new pub crawl

After what I thought was waning interest in my pub crawls, I have recently had several people ask...