Happy New Year
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lordshipmayhemAnd it's the start of another wonderful year. It HAS to be less sucky than 2005. That year kind of blew chunks for almost everyone I know, including Your Correspondent.
We watched Fromage 2005 last night, and I Ain't No Hallaback Girl was one of them. I finally Googled for the definition of Hallaback Girl: "hollaback girl: A girl who yells in response to being yelled at instead of responding with silence or violence. As in: "Don't be afraid of her, she's just a hallaback girl""
Oh. OK. Still don't really understand what the video is driving at. Of course the concept of Gwen Stefani as a superannuated high-schooler is guaranteed to make you exhale Coke on your keyboard.
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Seen at the corner of Eglinton and Victoria Park: a minivan sporting the licence plate, "MUGGLVAN". Sir, never set those wheels on Privet Drive.
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Toronto's Summer of Guns, then Autumn of the Automatic, then the Winter of our Discontent, continues. I see we've already recorded our first murder of 2006. Go us!! We're now a Big Bad City! (Pardon me while I hit my local Member of Parliament, Member of Provincial Parliament, Mayor, City Council and associated other touchie-feelies over the head with a clue-by-four.)
Yours Truly is again a Published Author. Yesterday, the Toronto Sun carried my letter to the editor, where I ranted against the exclusion of victims in criminal trials. They noted, "Good point." Now if only I could get those empowered to DO anything about the problem to listen.
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For those of you still using Windows/Internet Exploder/Outbreak, there's this really cute exploit going around, involving picture files with the extension WMF. (Maybe that should be WTF, as in "WTF does a picture file need executable code for?") Lots of this type of file on lots of websites. Good luck, kiddies!
Regarding this little problem, I quote from Slashdot, slightly edited: "I paid for Windows, and I want it to fscking work. All of my Linux boxes work, yet I never had to pay for Debian or Gentoo. Why can't software that I paid for work properly?"
Um, because Microsoft is a marketing firm instead of a software company?
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We watched Fromage 2005 last night, and I Ain't No Hallaback Girl was one of them. I finally Googled for the definition of Hallaback Girl: "hollaback girl: A girl who yells in response to being yelled at instead of responding with silence or violence. As in: "Don't be afraid of her, she's just a hallaback girl""
Oh. OK. Still don't really understand what the video is driving at. Of course the concept of Gwen Stefani as a superannuated high-schooler is guaranteed to make you exhale Coke on your keyboard.
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Seen at the corner of Eglinton and Victoria Park: a minivan sporting the licence plate, "MUGGLVAN". Sir, never set those wheels on Privet Drive.
***
Toronto's Summer of Guns, then Autumn of the Automatic, then the Winter of our Discontent, continues. I see we've already recorded our first murder of 2006. Go us!! We're now a Big Bad City! (Pardon me while I hit my local Member of Parliament, Member of Provincial Parliament, Mayor, City Council and associated other touchie-feelies over the head with a clue-by-four.)
Yours Truly is again a Published Author. Yesterday, the Toronto Sun carried my letter to the editor, where I ranted against the exclusion of victims in criminal trials. They noted, "Good point." Now if only I could get those empowered to DO anything about the problem to listen.
***
For those of you still using Windows/Internet Exploder/Outbreak, there's this really cute exploit going around, involving picture files with the extension WMF. (Maybe that should be WTF, as in "WTF does a picture file need executable code for?") Lots of this type of file on lots of websites. Good luck, kiddies!
Regarding this little problem, I quote from Slashdot, slightly edited: "I paid for Windows, and I want it to fscking work. All of my Linux boxes work, yet I never had to pay for Debian or Gentoo. Why can't software that I paid for work properly?"
Um, because Microsoft is a marketing firm instead of a software company?
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Date: 2006-01-02 05:02 am (UTC)http://www.grc.com/sn/notes-020.htm
Good to see Microshaft is rushing to get a fix out. :P
Bravo on the published letter
Date: 2006-01-02 07:04 pm (UTC)I was a little perturbed when I saw the cover of the Star with all those victims photos from the previous year in which a majority of them are black males and them a young white girl makes an exclamation point-- there were quite a few of those incidents that were accidents too, but it took a young white girl to make us really care...sorry, this is just the politically correct side of me ranting. We should have been rallying so much sooner.
Re: Bravo on the published letter
Date: 2006-01-02 07:27 pm (UTC)Wilf mentioned to me that his principal was warned by public housing officials to expect "a number" of new students - his elementary school was one of those that were next to the three public housing areas that were seeing an influx of families temporarily displaced due to the redevelopment of Regent Park. How many kids? "Between 10 and 100, we really don't know." Well, thanks for telling us anyway. The families were moving in, the singles and couples were being moved out.
It didn't take much discussion to realize that what Toronto Public Housing was in the process of doing was redistributing some members of the various gangs into new territories that belonged to OTHER gangs. Some from the Regent Park gangs would end up in the Teasdale gangs' turf (one of those three areas getting Regent Park families), some of the Teasdale gang members would end up in other places, and so on. In short, they were putting our gang situation through a blender. Add to that our pansy-arsed "judicial" system that our hoodlums have zero respect for, and you have a recipe for trouble. I said it was going to be a bloodbath, and so it has proven to be.
What I hadn't anticipated was that as they continued to use the guns, familiarity would breed contempt for the power of said guns, resulting in ever more brazen shootouts. I should have realized that, in hindsight.