Kev

It seems that xwave finally divested itself of the ingenia.com domain name. There’s almost nothing left, except a sign at coop‘s house, and some memories.

In a move which completely shocked me, the network admins at xwave actually remembered to hang on to the portable IP blocks they acquired when they acquired Software Kinetics, who had assumed Ingenia Communications debt earlier. Man, it seems like only yesterday we registered them, and got our shiny new T1 at 18 Auriga Drive for the low, low price of $10k/month.

Another reminder that time flies.

Sometimes you get someone off the top rope, coming out of nowhere. Today that was gopher. For those of you who don’t know prii, he’s very well known for his inability to spell pretty much anything.

[11:54] <zulu> homer?
[11:54] <homerbot> Blame the guy who doesn't speak English.
[11:56] <gopher> blame prii?
[11:56] <prii> omg
[11:57] <prii> mh

If you don’t understand this post, don’t worry about it. Trust me, it’s funny.

Update: If you don’t understand what “mh” means, think “knuckles and finger”, and you’ll get the drift of the retort.

Google announced today that they were implementing some changes to their PageRank system to help fight comment spam. The implementation is pretty simple, you simply add rel=”nofollow” to your hyperlinks, and the search engine will ignore it. Yahoo! and MSN are also participating, and most of the major blog publishing suites are incorporating the change.

I won’t really miss the couple of spams I get a week, but the existing protections I have in place have been more than adequate. Nicely done, folks. Deadsquidders, I’ll send you a note on how/when this gets implemented on your site. You probably won’t have to do a thing.

Ok, this is pretty funny. It certainly sounds like a Mastercard ad.

Once again, the Jets lived up to their reputation of sucking hard when it matters most. The upsetting part of this game for coach Edwards is that his team played really well, but the kicker didn’t do what he’s paid to do. Brien has been shaky the last couple weeks, missing field goals that mattered in a couple key games. He got away with it last week, but that luck can only last for so long. I’m not sad he missed, because I want the Steelers to win the Superbowl.

I think he’ll go the way of Scott Norwood, whose career never recovered from missing a kick in the big game. No one remembers that it was a really long kick on natural turf, they just remember he missed, and no team really gave him a chance after that game. Aloha, Monsieur Brien.

How do you kill the circus?

Go for the juggler.

For the last year and a half, I’ve been running out to Kanata every Thursday night to put the skates on and play some hockey. Unfortunately, every game has been excruciatingly painful, because my skates compressed my instep every time. Tonight, before my game, I headed over to Hockey One to see if my skates had issues. After working with the folks there, we discovered my skates were about 3 sizes too big, and my feet were moving around while trying to shoehorn my instep into a space too small for it. Small wonder it hurt.

I opted for the Graf 609s, an amazingly comfortable and light boot with a nice, wide fit. Sadly, they didn’t have my size in stock and had to order them in, so I’ll get them in a week. Boo-urns.

I debated for a while this eve, and decided I could put up with the pain for one more week, even though I really wasn’t looking forward to my feet feeling like they’d been put into a vice and beaten on with a ball peen hammer for fifty minutes. For the love of the game, I figured “what the hell”. As most of you know, I’m not that bright.

When I packed my gear up this eve, *everything* was in fine shape. In the 20 minutes it took to get to the arena, something happened. That blade has a whole four sharpenings on it and a season and a half on it. It cracked in two, which pretty much sealed the deal for waiting for the new pair of skates (the boys wouldn’t let me play on them, which was fair).

I’ve seen the Tuuk shell crack before, I’ve never seen the steel crack, especially on a skate with so little use. Weird, almost like they were telling me not to use ’em. So, I passed on hockey and went straight to Patty’s.

I’m looking forward to next week with the new blades. We’ll see how it goes.

So coop‘s Google PageRank climbed another notch in the last couple days from five to six. I’m really curious as to what the trigger was. I know I shouldn’t be paying attention to little things like that, but I find it interesting that Google ranks his site at the same level as the local tabloid. (honest coop, I’m not comparing your stuff to the Sun, that’s just mean)

So I saw the tagline for the ESPNHL, a replacement league for the NHL that the folks at ESPN came up with. I thought it would be very Page 2-ish, but it turns out that it’s pretty well thought out.

Check it out, it’s actually chock full of good ideas. I’m pretty sure the Canadians working there put most of it together… at least, I hope they did, because the alternative would be awfully tough to stomach.

Normally I’d complain about Ottawa being left out, but there’s an expansion provision in place, and this place really doesn’t deserve to have a team.

If you are an American in the kitchen, what are you in the bathroom?

European!!!

ha ha ha… oh, I slay me.