E-Filler Archives

As if the people of Toronto didn't need another reason to hate the TTC, as of midnight they are on strike...with no 48-hours notice. (Which, now that I think about it, really screws anyone who was planning to take the TTC home from a Friday night out...)

Russian man wakes up after drinking binge to find a knife in his back.

Yuri Lyalin, 53, took a bus home, ate breakfast and apparently slept like a baby before his spouse noticed a handle sticking out of his back.

Today Canadian journalism history was made when the Toronto Star published the most confusing headline since the birth of written communication: Farley Mowat bails out anti-sealing activists, ship

Maybe it doesn't seem so bad on the surface, but Farley Mowat is both a person and a ship, and "bailing" could refer to either pumping the water from a sinking ship and getting someone out of jail. It's also more confusing if you know that the ship (Farley Mowat) recently ran into a Canadian Coast Guard vessel (so it's possible the ship is damaged and needs bailing) and last night the crew spent the evening in a Canadian jail (so they might need bailing in the legal sense).

As it turns out Farley Mowat the person, bailed the crew of the Farley Mowat (the ship) out of jail...no word yet on if the boat needs bailing.

It's a story of human exploration, man vs. nature, man vs. man, science vs. religion. It is the greatest story you will ever read. It damn well better get made into a movie some day. It is
Bio Apocalypse

Here's the text of an article I ripped off of slashdot, which they ripped off of thebetaguy.com:

"Windows 7 takes a different approach to the componentization and backwards compatibility issues; in short, it doesn't think about them at all. Windows 7 will be a from-the-ground-up packaging of the Windows codebase; partially source, but not binary compatible with previous versions of Windows."

I could have posted my comments elsewhere, but I wanted at least one person to read them, so here goes:

"Dear MS,
WTF? Isn't backwards compatibility your big thing? If people aren't happy with Vista, how happy are they going to be when they find out their Windows 7 box runs even LESS software?

Stick with XP.

Tony"