Wayne D's Blog

Yikes, I was hoping to write something earlier today but between updating the Argonotes website and driving my youngest back and forth to Timberwolves I just ran out of time. I decided I dash off a quick entry before I headed off to bed.


I love CBC radio but they can be so infuriating sometimes. This summer they ran a show called Socket that showcased young, inovative Canadian artists. I didn't bother to bookmark any of the links on the website because I never dreamed that when the series ended the CBC would remove the webpage. Guess what, they did. I guess they decided the 100k or so of disk space it took up would be better utilized by a video clip. The three artists that were most memorable were the ones who:

1. Asked women about their panties.
2. Took pictures of herself sitting on discarded furniture.
3. Took pictures of the grafitti in bathroom stalls and juxtaposed the graffiti with pictures of women feet and shoes taken under the partition.

Of those three I could only find on the web again the last one, her name is Jessica Bushey and you can see samples of her work here.

I must be getting old, I can't remember what I was planning to make my next rant. I was goign to rant on Yahoo video because they had decided to use a player that required Flash version 8. This was going to be tied into a rant against Adobe for not supporting Flash 8 on Linux but then I found out that Adobe was releasing a Linux version of their next Flash version and were working hard to get it to beta test at the same time as the Windows version. They almost had them released simultaneously, I've got the beta running and it is working great so far.

I could rant about the driver who can't wait for traffic to clear and turn left onto the single lane that I have to turn right onto when I come home from work but I think I already complained about them before. Impatient buggers! A pox on them all.

Internet Explorer 7 is out. Yawn. Firefox has supported tabbed browsing for over two years. I hear that the next version of Firefox will do spellchecking in browser text entry boxes like the one I am using to write this posting. Finally I'll be able to spell check these things along with the email I write using Yahoo's new email client. I can't understand why Yahoo hasn't bothered to implement spell checking, their web based email client did it so the technology isn't new to them. I know I've mentioned it before but the lack of spell checking still bothers me.

I'd really like to be able to save this thing in draft mode so I can enter something more before I post it but Yahoo hasn't added support for that either so it goes it the way it is. I promise, no rants next time.

A word of advice, I went camping at Warsaw Caves two weekends ago and we found a broken, discarded hardwood chair in the dumpster that burned with a nice hot flame. No matter how cold it is you should keep your rubber soled shoes a safe distance from the fire. My feet were toasty warm even though my shoes were damp from tramping through the woods in the rain but when one shoe started smoking I realized that it might be a little too close to the fire. It's only slightly melted on the bottom. Good thing it was my old shoes and not the new ones. One of the hiking trails at Warsaw Caves crosses what they call  a limestone plain. It was amazing how the trees managed to take root in the cracks on what is really just a really, really big flat rock.