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We’re putting on an evening of music, food, and fun times at a place called Mitzi’s Sister on Queen St next Friday the 8th of September. It should be a pretty good gig. You pay what you can to get in, buy yourself some food and drinks (its a dinner party of sorts), and be entertained by Birds of Wales, and also a set by Morgan Ross.

Come on out! Yeah!

My good friend Jodie Church recently got the job of being the editor of http://halifax.optimuscrime.com. Prior to today, i had never heard of it, but she tells me its a cool pop culture, music blog that has different sites for a couple cities around eastern canada, Toronto, Halifax, Kingston and London.

I found this interesting image on Digg:
This pair of maps show the global presence of Starbucks coffee shops and McDonald’s restaurants. When examined graphically, both companies act as global hubs that connect some of the world’s poorest, most remote countries with some of the wealthiest. Very cool yet freaky at the same time!

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THANK GOD! I’ve been waiting forever (since I got this new mac) to get this plugin. Its been a while since they updated their code, but its finally here. HTTPMail Plugin for Apple Mail. Its a plugin that lets you access your Hotmail account from within Apple Mail. Its pretty awesome, and I don’t know what I would do without it. I absolutely HATE logging into Hotmail through their web admin.

Click here to get it

Thanks again to the people at Automagic Software who created this wonderful plugin that has made my life so much easier!!!

This could be old news, and probably is.. I suspect this video was released while I was away.. Either way, its pretty cool, and if this feature is included in 10.5, i’ll probably be discontinuing my use of Virtue Desktop.

I broke down and got myself an inexpensive bluetooth headset off ebay the other day, and it arrived this morning. My main purpose for having such a gadget is basically so that I can give my friend Peter his USB Headset back.

Pairing the headset with my mac was so simple, it took about 10 seconds, and then I started up Skype and configured it to use the headset instead of the usb headset. Simple. I then made my first call using the headset. The whole process took about 5 mins, and I was up and running with Skype and the new Bluetooth headset.

I’m constantly amazed by technology. And even though bluetooth is starting to be an old technology, its still amazing that such power and simplicity can be inside such a small package, such as a bluetooth headset.