I'm starting to feel conflicted about this: no one wants to look like a hypocrite, but while I still use the site for now, I can't help but point to interesting critiques of Facebook like this: With friends like these ...:

Facebook is a well-funded project, and the people behind the funding, a group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists, have a clearly thought out ideology that they are hoping to spread around the world. Facebook is one manifestation of this ideology. Like PayPal before it, it is a social experiment, an expression of a particular kind of neoconservative libertarianism. On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded by adverts for the world's biggest brands. As with PayPal, national boundaries are a thing of the past.

Vote - It's the least you can do. (featuring one Ed Helms and one McLovin.)

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly intrigues me, if only because I've become increasingly afraid of strokes and, more importantly, their consequences. But I won't be back in town before the 24th. On the DVD list for me.

Which reminds me, does anyone use (or know someone who uses) Zip.ca? It seems to be a Canadian equivalent of Netflix, but I'm wondering if it's as good as (I've heard) its American counterpart is. Apart from the fact that their website is painfully slow, they seem to offer the same service, anyway. Their lower price plans seem a little more expensive than just going to the rental store, but, if you're going to use it, $24.95 a month for three DVDs at a time and unlimited shipments sounds pretty good.

YES!

Sweeney Todd won for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy in the Golden Globes. And Johnny Depp for best actor. Although, I kinda wanted to see Juno get something...



and now the Diving Bell and the Butterfly looks even more enticing... all those accolades probably means it's pretty good, hey? Anyone interested? I'm going to go before the 24th of January, and it's currently playing at the Princess.

Yes, Happy Birthday, P. Here you go.




Actually, that wasn't really for Percy's birthday. It's about two weeks later than I had planned (that plan having been made four weeks ago which was several months later than my original plan.)

But yes, a beta of the new site.

Bugs, no doubt, remain. And I still have to sort out how exactly to fix all the idiotic IE style problems. Again, I humbly ask you to let me know when something's broken or whether I missed a feature. Other kinds of feedback are, of course, also welcome.

(On a side note, it's amazing how much stuff this site does. I've been rebuilding from the bottom up to fix my many (many!) hack jobs over the years, and goddamn did I put in a lot of little features that I had to recreate. I had planned to add a couple of new features, and they work in principle, but I still haven't quite finished the bells and whistles just yet because of all the other stuff I'd already done.)

But, yeah, 90% of the work is done. As they say in programming, now all that's left is the other 90%.

Seriously neat stuff.

"Spare part heart" beats in lab.

And I hope Percy was cuttin' it up last night!

oh, and...



HAPPY BIRTHDAY PERCY!

you know, I didn't even think about it. When we set it up, the Telus guy was in my house telling me what to do, so we have password protected wifi. I probably would be okay with having it open, since our network seems to have gotten corrupted despite the password, at some point earlier this year... but I'm lazy. And I like knowing that I can still download stuff on our cheap-ass internet deal, without worrying that someone else has run us to our maximum download limit for the month.

I used to, Tay, before Keri made me change it...

I see. I thought you meant you also didn't buy his arguments in the quote that you provided.

Just curious though... anyone else on here make a conscious decision to keep their wifi network publicly accessible?

I've got a feeling I'm in the minority on this one, although I still stand by my decision.