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what's all this...
I'm a lazy blogger, I can never remember what I've done in a given day, let alone in a given week, which is when I remember to blog... but I do like the concept of microblogging. I'll be heading off to Japan in a few weeks for my twice-yearly trip to that side of the planet, and figured it would be great if I could microblog and have my location stored somewhere then make both of them viewable by everyone. So an hour of hacking at work, another hour of layouting in the evening, and this client/platform independent Twitter-Latitude mashup was born. Powered by XML, JSON, PHP and of course mySQL. It was lots of fun to make, enjoy! (Pictures of the day are generally something I took within the last week)
I'm currently in as of 22128178.3 minutes ago, well atleast my phone is...




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Had my first $5 Mucho Burrito... should be good for a second in the early afternoon!
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on May 5, 2010, 11:02am EDT [+]
 
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Lack of updates, link aggregation >> http://is.gd/bViUa
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on May 5, 2010, 10:06am EDT [+]
 
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DEET maybe losing its effect on mosquitos... sorry in advance for our next trip to Florida hun!> http://k4v.ca/l?yQc
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on May 5, 2010, 9:44am EDT [+]
 
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Like 3 or 4 days in a row the weather has predicted nastiness and its been gorgeous out. Awesome driving weather but no where to go!
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on May 4, 2010, 11:35am EDT [+]
 
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Can we stop letting these companies off the hook after giant oil spills? Fuck you BP.
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on May 2, 2010, 7:42pm EDT [+]
 
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Thats right... Photoshop CS5 is OUT!!!!! http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshopextended/ Installed!
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 30, 2010, 10:01am EDT [+]
 
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Loblaws refuses my coupon for Stagg Chili, 'We don't support Toonies for Tummies' --clerk = Loblaws hates children http://twitpic.com/1jg664
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 29, 2010, 4:08pm EDT [+]
 
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Amazon lists BBC Life in the proper Attenborough ver and the Oprah ver at the same price amusingly http://tinyurl.com/284db2o Say no to O!
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 29, 2010, 12:09pm EDT [+]
 
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I think any IP block without a working (i.e. bounces as not a real mailbox) admin/tech contact should automatically be BOGON'd...
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 29, 2010, 9:07am EDT [+]
 
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I am *really* excited to benchmark the results of LLVM 2.7 vs a current GCC release on some real workloads.
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 28, 2010, 11:31am EDT [+]
 
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Celebrating Eva's new job at Harbour 60
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 27, 2010, 6:56pm EDT [+]
 
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Defenders of the iPhone 4 leak on Slashdot stereotypically hate Apple or amusingly believe in finders-keepers instead of California law, lol
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 27, 2010, 1:38am EDT [+]
 
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Mmmm we're having fresh corn for dinner tonight!
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 26, 2010, 7:59pm EDT [+]
 
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Disney's Oceans docu really raises the bar on cinematography! But with such a large VFX cast, what wasn't real? http://tinyurl.com/34tmkzw
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 26, 2010, 12:16am EDT [+]
 
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The cherry blossoms at High Park are gorgeous! http://twitpic.com/1hvjs6
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 23, 2010, 7:48pm EDT [+]
 
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Dear 20-something hipsters upsold to a DSLR in Yonge tunnel: your onboard flash and kit lens will take awful photos at 9pm, and you're drunk
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 22, 2010, 9:19pm EDT [+]
 
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My god, DxO's performance on OS X with an i7s is STILL pathetic. Worse than my c2d. Way to support your actually serious customer base guys!
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 22, 2010, 4:55pm EDT [+]
 
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iPhone OS 4 beta2 time!
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 20, 2010, 7:08pm EDT [+]
 
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Filled a Big Gulp up with black coffee and a little bit of ice... ended up chucking it 1/3 the way in, disgusting.
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 20, 2010, 4:05pm EDT [+]
 
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Lots of OPSEU protestors by Yonge and King
spoken by nkavassalis in Toronto, ON, Canada
on April 19, 2010, 5:43pm EDT [+]
 
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older entries:
  • Hooray, a new low for the Rogers call center: after providing my postal code, telephone number and name, they couldn't even FIND my account! permalink
  • Dear people of 151 Front St's 8th floor: I shouldn't have to check all 3 stalls only to learn not a single seat is urine free. Aim. Thanks. permalink
  • Saw 545i with a "v8" badge on the side. No surprise it had cheap looking chrome wheels and tail pipes. Poor innocent e60. I vomited a little permalink
  • Apple replaced my visibly mutilated Macbook Air power adaptor for free. Months after beeing run over by a colo crash cart it finally died. permalink
  • Such amazing levels of rice http://bit.ly/bxi2UH WTF indeed lol! via @tkavassalis permalink
  • Starbucks will fill their ice drink tumblers with iced coffee today for free. Gonna be a goooood day :D permalink
  • As I was falling asleep last night I kept thinking of how I fed a giant vulture a pepperette in Florida, and I kept laughing childishly. permalink
  • The over-the-air note syncing in iPhone OS4 is very impressive, totally took me by surprise! What an awesome feature. permalink
  • Yack, I can smell Redpath this morning... permalink
  • Why does Apple even offer a crumby 1440x900 display on the new 15" Macbook Pro... and then the proper 1680x1050 for only $100 more... permalink
  • Cave released Espgaluda 2 for the iPhone... http://appshopper.com/games/espgaluda-ii :: and it doesn't work under OS 4 *sob* Misery is me! permalink
  • Very impressed with iPhone OS 4.0, excellent changes all around! permalink
  • Touchdown YYZ and iPhone OS 4 is out for ADC, what a morning to be AFK! Hello cold and grey Toronto! permalink
  • Checking in at MIA. Thanks for the weather, palms, gators, birds, trees, fish, crocs and manatees Florida! And for being home to Sebring! :D permalink
  • Totally stuffed with traditional southern cookin' at Sam's Country Kitchen in Homestead. Thanks Frodors! permalink
  • We've seen a dozen crocs (not gators) in half an hour, so much more than last time we took this cruise. Gorgeous beasts. permalink
  • Arrived at Everglades National Park again, onward to alligator territory! permalink
  • Checked into the Grove Inn in Homestead, how cute! permalink
  • Got a bottle of Pepsi Cease Fire (pepsi max with lime) it is tasty! Cathy says 'that's awful soda pop!' after trying it. permalink
  • We came up on a bear deep in the woods looking for oranges, sadly he took off fast so no photos. permalink
  • A park ranger just told us that god hates peach trees at Hammock state park. permalink
  • Light-headed and exhausted, Sebring is an exhausting 3.7 miles. <3 dog box gearboxes and over a G of grip in the corners, always a blast!!! permalink
  • Getting in our Formula Skip Barber cars at Sebring, newer ones than last year at Road Atlanta, exciting! permalink
  • All signed in and registered on Sebring :D permalink
  • The Watering Hole in Sebring is an amusingly decorated restaurant with a live giant gator and fantastic local grain-fed steaks and seafood. permalink
  • Checked into our Residence Inn in Sebring. Gorgeous suites on the lake and the air smells of orange groves outside from miles away! permalink
  • Driving up Hwy-29, every now and then you get these absurdly strong wiffs of citrus blossoms... wow! Thank you AC recirc! permalink
  • Kirby Stoter preserve is a gorgeous walk, a very photogenic forest too! permalink
  • This hotel in Key Largo trains/keeps doves which seem to fly around the grounds all day long. I'd rather they were pelicans though. permalink
  • Cruising Hwy-1 in the keys listening to A State of Trance on the sat radio, recorded in Toronto last night. Awesome! permalink
  • The ocean along Hwy-1 looks so different in the setting sun, now a rich deep blue instead of the vibrant emerald green. Still gorgeous! permalink
  • Goodbye Key West, thanks for the fun and manitees, until next time... permalink
  • Another gorgeous looking morning high atop the balcony of our resort in Key Largo! permalink
  • Checked into the Mariott Key Largo Bay Resort, what a gorgeous place! permalink
  • Touch down MIA! permalink
  • At the airport, thrilled to be lieing to US customs about touching livestock in the past 24 hours. Let's hope they don't see this tweet. permalink
  • 120k km!!! permalink
  • You too can play tech visionary by making wide-reaching and absurd statements about the iPad replacing desktops in N years. For fun & profit permalink
  • Massive Wolfram Alpha price drop >> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/?p=36966 So purchased :D permalink
  • Walking to the colo without a jacket, what awesome weather! I wish I trusted the parking at 151 cause I'd much rather be driving! (2 blocks) permalink
  • Driving behind Tom in his dark blue executive and sport packed 750i. Such epic road presence! http://twitpic.com/1c1l6l permalink
  • OH. MY. GOD. OpenSSL v1.0.0 is released today! It's indeed a day for cake. permalink
  • Rebuilt Terminal Copy on Select ( http://blog.s21g.com/articles/1075 ) for OS X 10.6.3, enjoy >> http://tinyurl.com/yacnlem permalink
  • OS X 10.6.3 is out and fixes A TON of stuff: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8521&rss go forth and run Software Update! permalink
  • Please stop telling me Theora video is as good as h264, its not. My camera and everybody else's camera makes h264 natively. Give up Firefox. permalink
  • FF13 really is gorgeous, and the combat eventually becomes fun... I hope the story holds out and doesn't fizzle like FF12 or suck like FF10! permalink
  • Busted out the KORG EX-800 and the MicroKORG tonight and made some awesome sequences and samples. permalink
  • First Mac OS X, now Ubuntu is switching to the SI base-10 kilo/mega/giga byte representation. *sigh* What is this world coming too... permalink
  • Was at my folks place all day then sped to the datacenter for a 1am maintenance window - today just has a sorta retro vibe to it. permalink
  • Almost time for Earth Hour, going off grid, good bye internets! permalink
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    from the twitter sphere:
    sc_k: An exceptionally awesome ad seen by @nkavassalis. Everybody loves a good Tetris party. http://twitpic.com/1l9di0
    drtns: @nkavassalis It would take quite a bit of Whiskey to get me up to dance a jig... this was for my Son, and he did great, stole the show.
    CaldenWloka: @nkavassalis Thanks for the info!
    CaldenWloka: @nkavassalis No, I don't think St. George has any of those machines. If I head by Union in the next couple days maybe I'll give them a go.
    mWare: @nkavassalis Uhm, no. It's a music show.
    drtns: @nkavassalis still not 100% sure I like it for everyday use found the one I tried at the apple store to be slow and sluggish.
    tkavassalis: @nkavassalis Surely then you don't have to pay their bills?
    drtns: @nkavassalis That is really sad given that is a secured washroom on a secured floor in a secured building.
    mWare: @nkavassalis Obviously you missed the Type-R sticker.
    chaosaltar: @nkavassalis yes and I am on the original model still :-p



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