Freyburg

So my Primus Talkbroadband phone was acting weird for the last couple of days. At first, I thought my run of good luck was up and that I’d come down with a bad case of the Lillebuens. Turns out that Persona, the runky dink outfit that passes for cable internet and tv service in these parts, has a 10 gig cap. Since I foolishly downloaded 4 gigs (and apparently 6 gigs got siphoned off me), I was pretty much screwed. Luckily, everything gets reset at the beginning of the month, a mere two days away, so I won’t be hooped on the VOIP front for too much longer.

I don’t want to go to Telus, but at least their download limits are a lot higher. Plus, I’ll just rent DVDs and rip them. So thanks for nothing, Persona.

There’s a good article on The National Review’s site about how the Internet hasn’t really done squat to promote democracy, despite all the dot.com broohaha about the net empowering people. I don’t know if I agree with everything in the article, but it does raise some valid points.

Rogers just introduced the Treo 600 to Canada. Urge to completely dump Telus…rising…..though the hefty $800 price tag will keep me from getting it, at least until a couple of eBay auctions pan out.

Now if only Apple would get its ass in gear and get an iTunes Music Store for Canada, I’d be a happy fool.

CHUD is running a story on 100 movies that have been overlooked. I’m only up to #26, but I agree with most of their evaluations so far.

And this guy has come up with a way for AIM and iChat users to play Infocom games over IM. Now that’s cool.

There’s a new website up called BannedMusic that carries “illegal” tunes. So far there isn’t much up, though they do have both the “Grey Album” (Jay-Z and the Beatles, remixed) and the Double Black Album (Jay-Z and Metallica.) It’s always nice to see people giving the RIAA the finger, and having listened to the Grey Album, I can also say that it’s worth the download.

I’m busier than hell at the moment, with no let-up until the weekend. I’ll try to get something whipped up by then.

As far as I know, this is the world’s first zombie blog. I suspect it’s some sort of sly promotional tie-in with the Dawn of the Dead remake, but it’s pretty damned funny nonetheless.

I cracked open the Vancouver Sun today to find that fellow Star Wars freak and Corus-sufferer Shane Turgeon was featured in a story about collectibles. Way to go, Shane! The link goes to some goofy pay system where you can only read the first few sentences, so if any of you cats can find the full article elsewhere, I’ll gladly change it.

Some neighbour in my new shag-rug Shangri-La has foolishly left his wireless network in an insecure state, so of course I’m going to take advantage of this state of affairs until Monday, when my high speed net connection is supposed to arrive. I get the tiniest of signals with Airport, but I ain’t about to complain. At least I can sorta-kinda check my mail, though scoring DVD rips might be pushing it.

You can be pretty damned certain that I’ll be setting up my wireless network for 128-bit encryption once I set things up, though. 🙂

I’m in Osoyoos, though I have yet to find an apartment. I’ve got a line on one, but I have to wait until the end of today to find out whether I’ve been approved or not. Here’s hoping, or I’ll end up living in a fruit-picker’s shack. Yuck.

The place I’m looking at has a ton of space, most of which I probably won’t use. I may end up living in the bedroom and picking up a second hand weight bench or something. I won’t use it, I’ll just let it fill space in the living room. 🙂 Or I’ll use the bedroom for storage and live in the living room. This is the flip side of scaling down all your posessions; you feel wasteful if you live in anything above 300 sq feet of space.

Osoyoos (so far) is kind of like walking through a suburb of Vancouver, without any actual Vancouver attached to it. I’m sure once the temperature skyrockets I’ll feel differently, but that’s my general impression for now.