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2005

Spine.cx posts from the year 2005.

Merry Christmas

Merry @#$%*& Christmas! Originally posted on Sunday, 2005-12-25 at 00:00:58.

SteveCast #8 Carnage at the Mall

More of my nonsense on the mic, on vacation and bored. Music in this podcast: The Quintessent...

SteveCast #7: Customer Appreciation Day

I'm on vacation again, so it's time to resume an activity that can consume my time that's at leas...

Spine is back!

There was something amiss with our database server, but we restored the system as it was on Thurs...

RIAA phone call

Originally posted on Tuesday, 2005-12-13 at 20:35:39.

Best 404 Ever

My Odeo Channel (odeo/197f40cc82612ba9) Originally posted on Tuesday, 2005-12-13 at 18:55:51.

Open the box on new music

A very interesting music subscription service has opened up recently. Pandora.com has indexed th...

All blog entries now on the front page

I got tired of having such a static front page on spine.cx, so now, all blog entries from all use...

I baked some Macaroni and Cheese

Ok, so I'm about to get down to some funky baking action. Macaroni and cheese. Easy, right? We...

My Challenge

Today, I have commenced my challenge in accordance with the latest podcast. Jeannine has challen...

Halifax Podcaster Meet-up

Got to meet some interesting characters tonight, including Tod Maffin, Bruce Murray, and Jeff Mac...

Lost podcast reveals some new information

If anyone else is listening to the Lost podcast that ABC is doing, you'll now know that they have...

Saturday night at the Attic: CHIXDIGGIT!

Everybody who's anybody is going to be at the Attic this Saturday night to see Chixdiggit! for th...

How much fucking water can the sky hold?

I know we live in Nova Scotia, where the weather can change in an instant. So why isn't it chang...

My Flickr account

I've opened up an account on Flickr. It's pretty useful. As a freeloader, you can upload up to ...

Some stuff has happened while I was away

I ventured out into my neighbourhood today. Many things have changed since I've been gone. I to...

i-mate Jasjar

One of the cool things about going to the PDC was the crazy deal that was announce during the key...

Tuesday afternoon at the PDC

I am posting this from a new PDA/cellphone/wi-fi device...I'm still getting used to the keyboard,...

Finally in L.A.

Fucking woke up at 0345h this morning to get my 0430h ride to the airport to catch my 0610h fligh...

I win again

Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:26:47 -0300 From: Kimberly Hoffman <her email address> Subject: Allis...

SteveCast #6 - New Orleans is Sinking

I rant a little bit about the anarchy that's going on in New Orleans and some about Big Brother 6...

Podcast mailing list

Due to a few requests, I have set up a mailing list so that people can be notified via email when...

Podcasting on location

For the first time, Jeannine and I have been requested to make a personal appearance :) We will ...

Plane Crashes

Is it just me or have there been a lot of plane crashes in the media lately? Toronto's Air Franc...

SteveCast #5 - Charger test drive and Dave Doolittle's

Steve & I went to test drive a Dodge Charger and ate at Dave Doolittle's. Post in the comments h...

SteveCast #4 - The Redwood Grill

I didn't really get a chance to do some of the great suggestions I got, because I didn't go downt...

SteveCast #3 - Batting Cages and the Vines

I take a suggestion from Ryan Belbin and hit the batting cages at Atlantic Playland. Afterwards,...

SteveCast #2 - On vacation and bored

I'm on vacation and bored out of my mind. Send my phone a text message with what the hell I shou...

Obvious: Bell ExpressVu has lousy customer service

No real surprise here, I just wanted to link to a real horror story that this guy has had about h...

SteveCast #1

The first of probably many "SteveCasts" (Not to be confused with the Spine.cx Podcast). I talk a...

Spine.cx's 4th birthday

Yay! It's been 4 years since Spine.cx was brought up in this format of articles and comments and...

Podcasting for everybody!

In an effort to make life easier for me, I accidentally added a feature to the website. When you...

Popularizing the Spine.cx Podcast

Among the many other things I think about during any given day, one of them usually is, "How can ...

At least Scientologists don't ring your doorbell and wake you up

I fucking hate Jehova's Witnesses!!! Why do they come to my fucking house? They woke me up toda...

What is up with Club 5171?

I do not understand what the owners of Club 5171 (formerly Merrill's) are doing with that once-gr...

The new machine is live!

The afore-mentioned new machine is live. Hopefully the only difference you'll all notice is that...

NSGEU wants you to boycott private liquor stores

Fuck that. I'm not even going to get started on what I think of unions, but I know that I abso...

A new spine.cx

Spine.cx is about to get transplanted into a new body. Currently, spine.cx is running on an AMD ...

Cheap audio equipment

I'm looking at buying some new equipment for recording the podcast. Specifically a new mixer. T...

It's about fucking time

I really don't understand why it took so fucking long to pass the gay marriage bill. Doesn't thi...

Promo Girl's identity revealed

I don't know how many of you guys listen to CBC radio, but you probably know that I do. For the ...

Panhandling's not illegal...yet

There is a new potential law on the books of the Nova Scotia government. Halifax city council vo...

Thanks for the gifts!

I just wanted to say thanks to all the people who brought with them birthday gifts for me on Satu...

I think I crashed a party

Tanya and I went downtown on Saturday night, to the Seahorse. I'm fairly certain we weren't supp...

Best money making scam ever

Man, I wish I had thought of this. All you have to do to make money in this day and age is to th...

Crawl & Order: The day after

The Crawl & Order pubcrawl went off last night without a hitch, save perhaps for the crap-ass wea...

Garrison's Jalapeno Ale

I visited Bishops Cellar today with my 10% off coupon from The Coast. Got a whole bunch of stuff...

Wireless is almost ubiquitous

I am almost convinced that wireless can and will be everywhere. Right now, I'm in the basement o...

Website feature!

I have told a few people this, but I'm sure most of you don't know: You can get redirected to yo...

Pink Razors

Chixdiggit have a new album out, it's called Pink Razors. Man, just when you think they can't ro...

The new Doctor Who

There's a new Doctor Who series and so far, it's awesome. Obviously since we're in an entirely n...

The second podcast

So, we got together at my place and recorded a second podcast. This one has Jeannine talking int...

Spine.cx's first podcast

Yes, it's true! Spine.cx has entered the pod-o-sphere. I'm guessing that some (probably many) o...

The Subway Thing

For posterity, here is the original Subway rant that pretty much got Spine.cx on the map. I just...

New Forums!

So, just like I rewrote the main site, I've also re-written the forums. They've been done for a ...

Create your own South Park look-alike

Using this flash animation, you can make yourself into a South Park character. Good way to waste...

More companies should do this

This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen put out by a technology company. It's not a pro...

I thought everything was relative

Let me start out by saying that I love Uncommon Grounds, but their coffee sizing methods just don...

MSN Messenger 7.0

So Messenger 7.0 is out now, officially. I recommend that you all download it, it's pretty cool....

This Ottawa hotel is awesome

I'm in Ottawa on a business trip and the hotel they put us in is fucking awesome. It's called th...

Let's Blaspheme

What do the Pope and Terri Schiavo have in common? Come on, that question is its own punchline...

Google maps is officially the best website ever

I bore witness to something on google maps that completely blew my mind. It recognizes one-way s...

What's up with this?

Originally posted on Tuesday, 2005-03-29 at 22:17:58.

Birthdays in the HRM

Every year, I think about trying to come up with a list of things that somebody can do free on th...

The Montreal Grill

I just found out that the restaurant (or diner, I guess it's a diner) in the basement of the BMO ...

Podcasting and the applications used

I am seriously considering starting up my own podcast. I have pretty much all the gear I would n...

Time for a new pubcrawl?

So far this year, I've heard no less than three people in seperate situations ask me if there is ...

Having lunch on a Sunday afternoon

Right now, I'm sitting in the Blowers Street Paper Chase. I've ordered a club sandwich and a bow...

Skype Internet Telephony

I'm sure many of you have heard of Skype. Me too, but I had never really used it until yesterday...

Video lottery terminals

On the way into work on the bus this morning, I heard a piece on the news stating that local bar ...

Nobody will let me buy a wi-fi SD card

I have been wanting a small, portable wi-fi-enabled device since wireless technology has been ava...

Podcasting applications suck

I'm trying to get into Podcasting. There are some interesting shows that I've started to listen t...

New MP3 player

I just bought an iRiver IFP 799. It's a 1 gigabyte player that thanks to a timely firmware upgra...

Now this is funny.

In a .NET windows forms application, paste this code into one of your windows' code files: prote...

Computer for my living room

I need a computer for my living room. The one I had in my entertainment unit went tits-up the ot...

Canada's not so liberal when it comes to the Internet

I'm not sure how reliable this is, but it seems that the Canadian government has plans for their ...

Deadwood Season 2!

One of my favourite shows from last year is back: Deadwood started its second season last night....

The elusive internet café

I am sitting in what used to be commonly called an “Internet Café”, but what are now commonly ref...

There's a new Pick in town.

My friend (and boss) Jeff Pick just had his second kid. Another boy...I'll let him explain the s...

Crash course in BBCode

I'm sure more than a few of you have wondered, "WTF is up with all this BBCode shiznit? OMGWTFLO...

Two more visits to the doctor

After my throat swab for strep came back negative, my doctor called me back in for a blood test. ...

A visit to the doctor

For the first time in around 10 years I felt sick enough to make an appointment to see a doctor. ...

Fire in Fairview

This guy has some pretty good photos of the fire that ravaged that apartment building in Fairview...

Windows XP firewall is useless

My brother sent me an interesting email today. It doesn't totally surprise me. By adding a new ...

Why aren't there bathroom standards?

Toothbrush handles have been getting conspicuously girthier in past years, but the diameter of th...

Goodbye to the Wave?

I was reading in the Halifax Herald today that due to renovation of the Maritime Museum of the At...

Party at the Frosst's. I think my body is rejecting it.

Oh my. Alcohol is evil. I've suspected it for some time, but now my hypothesis has been confirm...

LokiTorrent.com shut down

LokiTorrent.com, one of the few remaining big torrent sites has been shut down by the MPAA. Mak...

Razor blades

How much does it really cost to make a razor blade? Per ounce, they must be more valuable than g...

Spine.cx gets rewritten

Over the past few days, I've been working on a new code stream for spine.cx. Something not so cl...

Whidbey Beta 2

I was at an MSDN event tonight, regarding security in .NET. That wasn't so interesting in itself...

So, they're going to do another bridge study

Sometimes I just don't understand what goes on in the minds of politicians. From things as big a...

User 'blog functionality

For all you kids who like to 'blog, spine.cx now has a solution for you. Check out the box on th...

Best new show on TV this season

So, what do I think is the best new show on TV this season? House, M.D. It's kind of like a cross...

MGM is a movie butcher

According to an article I've just read on Slashdot, at least 315 of MGM's so-called "widescreen" ...

Car accident redux

Last week, I got my car back from the collision shop, looking as good as new. They even cleaned ...

MSN Messenger Virus

I don't know if it's been announced anywhere lately, but I believe there's an MSN Messenger virus...