Eric Karjaluoto is pretty excited about a book he just got in the mail. I called him to find out why. Listen in http://ow.ly/B97P

Woaw. that’s hot. Cleaner 1.5 windows running on VM’ed Mac converts a 5 minute .wav file to mp3 in less than 9 seconds. Lovin the 8 core Mac

sound as a weapon ? Vancouver police getting a sonic gun http://ow.ly/B6ZT

Pouring rain on the north shore (vancouver). and the internet is crawling. maybe it needs to learn to swim ?

‘course I’m a sailor, so its a moot point, but glad to see hyrids starting to show up in marine engines http://ow.ly/AV6R

How much does it cost to buy a TV station in Canada. 2 loonies will do it. http://ow.ly/AV4I

Laptop drybags? seems the perfect thing for us rain-forest-dwelling-blog-everywhere types. via ubergizmo http://ow.ly/AUVH

Thinking that some PJ’s complete with fuzzy feet would be good – starting now until about March.

Uninstalling and re-installing Windows drivers. Ugh. It’s always entertaining when something just stops working for no apparent reason.

Nifty online tool for making wireframes – probably won’t supplant me using Omni but still pretty handy. Mockingbird http://ow.ly/AAK8

She’s got a thing for bread – and that prompted me to call compost girl Spring Gillard. You can listen in at BrainPicker http://ow.ly/AA2n

I’m having trouble identifying the stuffed figurines in this picture http://ow.ly/ApnK

“If you hated quote generators when they first started showing up on the web 15 years ago, you’ll loathe them on Twitter.” – Bigsnit

RT @kk: Restore Arts Funding Now video about the brutal arts & culture budget cuts here in BC http://bit.ly/pXxEG #protest [xtra good vid]

Definate chill in the air here on the North Shore. Probably not enough for snow at #cypress but as they say in Jamaica – Soon Come

All very existentialist. Apparently 3 reboots is the magic number. Project Upgrade now magically accepts Proj 2002 version as existing.

MS now refused to install Project upgrd on my VMwared Mac because it can’t find OFFICE which I just installed. Reboot -no go – WTF Redmond?

entire van digiterati on front page of vancouver2010 website – @scales, @kk ,and @phillipdjwa via Facebook ‘fan’ http://ow.ly/i/6Ic

RT @kirklapointe: Final Tweet, then on to the day: #Vancouver2010 ticket sale pstpnd to Nov.14. 3-hour computer failure. http://ow.ly/Aj3x

the procrastinator’s killer toolbox: Twitter and Facebook – eeehaaa!

RT @2010Tweets: “On behalf of Tickets.com, we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience …” Larry Witherspoon, CEO, Tickets.com