A waste of bits and bandwidth

Is ‘Don’t drop the soap’ sage advice to a female inmate?

Paul and Rachel put on another of their Orphans Thanksgiving dinners Saturday night. A fine time was had by all and the turkey dinner was amazing; a bit of a pot luck affair including a cake by Spanky which was actually quite good.

Catharine warned me that he ‘had to shim it’. I was never sure of exactly what that meant but I didn’t bite down on anything and I felt fine in the morning so, whatever…

Everyone ate far too much yet we hardly made a dent in all the food. This was the first real test of The Kitchen and it passed with flying colours.

I had every intention of posting some pictures that I took to the gallery but alas, I’m a photographic ‘tard. I managed to take pics of the back of peoples heads, an empty table and the carcuss. After we ate half of it.

Luckily, Fred of Fred and Krista, documented the entire evening with his camcorder. I got a pic of him, documenting the evening. It was blurry.

Gmail just got a bit better today with the release of some new features. The most interesting/useful is the notifier which sits in your system tray and lets you know if you have new mail in a similar fashion to how Outlook notifies you.

I stumbled across GMail Drive today and it looks cool. “GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.”

What that means is that you actually get a Gmail drive in Explorer that you can drag and drop files to. It handles all the email exchanges in the background.

I had already set up a Label and Filter and have been storing some files that I figure I’d like to have easy access to. It’s not that hard to figure out but it would be cool to have a Gmail drive. If I read it right, it’s IE only so I guess I won’t be using it anytime soon.

I’ve read that Google allocates your storage allowance dynamically meaning that you don’t actually have a 1GB mailbox; you have a mailbox that’ll grow to a maximum of 1GB before your p0rn starts to bounce. I wonder how they feel about someone making it easier to use more of that space…

I’m 90% certain that they came out with the notifier only because there were so many out there pinging the site every 30 seconds to check for mail that it was like a mini DDoS attack. With their own notifier, they can control the rate at which the notifier checks for mail.

In news of the bizarre, I was on my way to Safeway tonight and noticed there were a lot of cops at the back of the building and that they had the parkade blocked. Turns out someone off’d themselves in the parkade this afternoon. That’s just sad…

“I want to see a picture of a water ballon (filled obvioulsy) flying off your balcony at an unsuspecting elderly person down below.” Sorry Biff, been there, done that…

“I wanna picture of your desk at home, the place you probably spend alot of time scratching your head (among other parts) and curse the fact that you’re using this MT whatchamawhosit.”

As per Rogé , my desk. Yes, it’s messy. Yes, it’s cramped but it’s where the magic happens.

“A picture of your naked toes. BONUS POINTS: WITH YOUR TOENAILS PAINTED.”

I’ll take a pass on the bonus points Stace…

“A picture of your p0rn stash (screen shot of your desktop if you only do the online jerk).” (Stace)

You can see my desktop to your right. My p0rn is is stored in a database running 2048 bit blowfish encryption and is guarded by rabid, Stanley Park Squirrels.

“A picture of your shower drain. Eeeew!” (Stace)

Contrary to popular belief, I do clean my bathroom every week. Not this week mind you…

Thank you and good day.