Archive for August, 2005

  • Possibly useful Windows admin scripts

    Haven’t actually tried any of them yet, but they look useful. Isn’t that enough?
    Link.

    Friday, August 26th, 2005
  • Welcome to hell

    My laptop was just stolen. I’m writing this from the public kiosk in the JDUC. A beautiful 12″ PowerBook… How could they? The laptop was in my room. I was out for a walk, but my housemate was home. He didn’t hear them. They even had the presence of mind to grab my laptop bag, [...]

    Sunday, August 14th, 2005
  • My recent life: Dark Angel

    I’m a fan of a sub-genre of scifi called cyberpunk. Dark Angel not only has a kickass female lead, but is also the only live-action cyberpunk TV show that I’ve heard of. Last night I did a 12-hour marathon to finish off the second season. Reminds me of the time I watched all 12 combined [...]

    Sunday, August 14th, 2005
  • Creepy…

    Some guy from Macedonia just tried calling me on Skype. Fortunately my mic is broken, and apparently so is his. Here’s the transcript:

    10/08/05 5:55 PM weird guy: hi
    10/08/05 5:55 PM Aidan Findlater: who are you?
    10/08/05 5:55 PM my mic isn’t working, btw
    10/08/05 5:55 PM weird guy: talk something
    10/08/05 5:55 PM please
    10/08/05 [...]

    Wednesday, August 10th, 2005
  • My eclectic taste in music

    Audioscrobbler is now Last.fm. They made it look prettier, added some functionality, and moved it to a new domain name. Something that they also seem to have done is finally update my ‘musical neighbors’, the list of those who have similar musical tastes to my own. The closest is, oddly enough, my friend Drew (at [...]

    Wednesday, August 10th, 2005