Posted by matt
Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:13:38 GMT
Walkthroughs are a form of cheating for video games. It's basically a description of the game, the missions, some easy ways of doing the missions, and locations for various items that might come in handy. This is the best and funniest walkthrough I've ever seen.
The link is here, and I found it on boingboing
I took away the text of it below. The Morning News guys told me it was copyrighted and I'd have to talk to them about reproducing it. I think that's entirely fair, and I encourage everyone to go to their site to see it.
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Posted by matt
Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:20:48 GMT
Remember Maher Arar, the Canadian Citizen that was disappeared from La
Guardia Airport by the US authorities, to Syria, where he was tortured?
The story continues. Back in November, reporter Juliet O'Neill wrote a
couple of stories concerning RCMP collusion with US DOJ Authorities in the
Ottawa Citizen, citing a confidential source in the RCMP. Yesterday
morning, Ms. O'Neill was woken up by 10 RCMP officers, who took all of her
files, datebooks, computer hard drives, CDs and floppies from her home and
office. She is charged under the new Security of Information act, which
AFAICT, makes it a crime, punishable by 14 years in jail, just to know
stuff that you're not supposed to know. What's more, from accounts I
heard on the radio from the Editor of the paper, the lawyer representing
the paper, and the reporter herself. It's clearly an intimidation tactic
by the RCMP to try and force her to give up the source. She was told
several times that "All these problems would go away" If she gave up her
source.
I'm going to update this story with links and other stuff as I find time. For a good overview on the story, here's the AP wire story
Update: Paul Martin says Canada is not a police state Reminds me of an old joke from
Yes, Minister. The way to confirm something is true is to hear a politician deny it.
I first came accross this story listening to the 6:30 news update, as I was driving home from work. Then, I listened to As It Happens Scott Anderson relays some shocking things that were told to Ms. O'Neill by the police. Basically along the lines of "You can make all this go away, by revealing your source" This is something that is usually said in Third World dictatorships, where the concept of a free press is foreign.
Then This morning, I listened to an interview with the reporter herself, and the lawyer for the Ottawa Citizen on Ottawa Morning [Warning: The preceding link is just for today, probably, I'll try and update once they have a more permanent link to the archives]
Then I heard more on The Current
Each story got more and more unbelievable.
Check it out.
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Posted by matt
Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:43:52 GMT
I finally have a job. It's at MKC Networks, doing product support for their tres cool SIP PBX (basically a VoIP office phone switch) It's actually the same one I worked on at Mitel Networks (Mitel Networks was contracted to do the initial support and release, IIRC) so I know the product.
I'm tres happy, and I'm going out to see South of 78, and the Fiftymen tonight at Irene's so if anyone wants to come out and celebrate with me, as well as listen to some kick-ass alt-country, the more the merrier.
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Posted by matt
Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:31:35 GMT
I don't actually read the comments on /. anymore, I just check out the ones that make it to the well. In honour of my first blog post, I give you this.
It's actually posted below if you don't want to click on the link.
Read more...
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Posted by matt
Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:19:22 GMT
So as I'm discovering more and more people are actually reading this thing, I decided to put my erstwhile influence to talk about something I really believe in. Like Pimping music by local bands I like. In that Vein, I bring you
Matt's Record Reviews
So last night I went to the CD Release Party for Chris Page's new CD Decide to stay and swim I first discovered chris page probably about a year and a half ago, and I was really struck by his music. It's very sparse, usually he goes on stage with just his Les Paul, and a really nice amp. It's all really fast-paced, stripped-down power-pop style electric guitar playing, but with no accompaniment at all, just his very good vocals on top of it. The music begs comparison to Billy Bragg, but without all the political content.
Opening for Chris Page was the GoldenSeals, and Andrew Vincent and the Pirates. Read more for a review of the show. Suffice it to say, you should go out right now and buy both Chris Page's CD and AV's If you're still not convinced, check out these tracks by Chris Page and AV
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Posted by matt
Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:42:28 GMT
Upgraded the OS on the folkwolf today. If you notice anything weird ... and you probably will ... let either chris or I know, and we'll fix it for you, if we can, when we get around to it.
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Posted by matt
Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:22:36 GMT
Well, I've started to backport my old weblog entries into the new system, enough so that the page isn't glaringly bare. So here it is. The old blog is at http://folkwolf.net/~mattrose/blog.html, if there's something there you want to see.
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Posted by matt
Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:16:36 GMT
I have decided to enter the 21st century, webwise, and ditch my older, simpler weblog in favour a shiny new Moveable Type system, with all the bells and whistles.
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Posted by matt
Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:44:59 GMT
I got this on the Sunday night of Burning Man 2003. It's the Temple of Honour burning.
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Posted by matt
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:38:42 GMT
This definitely wins the award for "The best Legal Document of the Year", and maybe of all time. The lawyer who wrote it shows a dry, subtle sense of humour in writing a defense of, and a history of The F word
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