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TheDahTheory: I'm mad as hell... (etc)

2010-02-09T07:53:35

SO!

We get to recording a new podcast at about 9:20 or so, and we start out sorta slow, but after 5 minutes we have a great clip going.

Then, what?

I get the same DAMN popo up error from Audacity "Cannot find file XXXYYYZZZAAADDD" bull crap as when we were recording TheGodFather's show. I have 8 gig of HD available, so that's not it.

And Audacity says "saves on the fly, so even if your computer crashes" (which it didn't) "you've still got your file"

Bull- CRAP!

So I've got to get paid from this new job so I can afford the $80 Ubercaster program which is suh weeeeeet.

And it's time to start a secondary recording thingy-thing I guess.

Wow, is that frustrating. And I do NOT have the energy to do it again from scratch, so... Screw Windows and Screw Audacity.

Peace, kiddos- sleep tight! :)

LawIsCool: The Politicization of Justice Reform

2010-02-09T05:34:56

This afternoon, Julian Falconer gave a talk at the Empire Club of Canada titled “The Politics of Punishment: Depoliticizing Justice Reform.” He focused primarily on the Harper government’s “tough on crime” agenda, and made some most interesting observations. Canada spends $3.5 billion per year on crime. It costs $108,000 per year to incarcerate one inmate. Stephen [...]

LawIsCool: Sponsored Post: HawkEye and Fingerprint Technology to check drunk drivers

2010-02-09T05:34:55

Drunk driving has been a major problem for law enforcers and law makers for many years; drunk driving puts the lives of many innocent people at stake. These include the lives of other drivers, people on bikes and motorbikes and even pedestrians. After drinking, your senses as well as reflexes become impaired and although, you [...]

LawIsCool: Criminal Defence Lawyers Need Not Apply

2010-02-09T05:34:55

Newsflash - the Ontario Government is looking for outstanding members of the public to sit on 27 separate police services boards throughout the province. Criminal defence lawyers need not apply. What? Did I read that right? Strangely yes. On the Ontario Government Public Appointment Secretariat's website found at: http://www.pas.gov.on.ca/scripts/en/upcomingVac.asp, there are nearly 200 postings for various positions [...]

LawIsCool: Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants - Redux

2010-02-09T05:34:54

Aimee Green of The Oregonian reports, An attorney for Aurora Hill filed suit in Multnomah County Circuit Court Wednesday afternoon — stirring memories of a controversial 1994 suit in which a jury awarded $2.86 million to an Albuquerque, New Mexico woman who spilled scalding-hot coffee on herself, suffering severe burns that required hospitalization. Upon appeal, the [...]

LawIsCool: An Interview with Quebec's first black lawyer

2010-02-09T05:34:53

Anthony Morgan, a McGill law student and president of the Black Law Students' Association of Canada, interviewed Frederick Phillips, McGill's first black law grad and Quebec's first black lawyer. You can read the interview on inFocus online, McGill’s news magazine.

LawIsCool: The Other Google Spot, and Florida Divorce Attorneys

2010-02-09T05:34:52

Google’s ad last night attracted quite a bit of attention. Kenneth Corbin of Internet News said, For Google, Super Bowl Sunday was something of a departure. In the third quarter of the game, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) aired a nearly full-minute ad promoting its search engine, marking one of the few television appearances for the company that rarely advertises [...]

VoxmarketisingThe: MEDIA RELEASE - GTE Engages International Voice Talents for Russian Voice Over

2010-02-09T02:03:08

ORLANDO, Florida, February 8, 2010 – - International Voice Talents, the foreign language division of voice over company audio'connell Voice Over Talent, was contracted to provide Russian voiceover services for a new training video for Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (GTE). Featuring International Voice Talents' Russian Male Voice Talent Pavel, the video clarifies the operation and [...]

Lovehatethings: lovehate: Olympic Mascots

2010-02-09T00:03:27

I don't quite know what to say.

The traditional concept of a mascot is to be representative of a team or organization. Above all, there is usually something identifiable. Whether it be an animal or mythological figure or paper clip that invades the top of my screen and asks inane questions whenever I cannot figure out how to execute a rarely used function in MS Word... DAMN YOU CLIPPY!

So then how have the mascot for recent Olympic Games become such twisted anime mutations that they make me question how in the hell a creative team found these creatures acceptable much less endearing. I have not done any research into what the mascots are actually supposed to be, thus giving myself a pure guess at the genesis of the creatures.

Here are my deconstructions of the Vancouver 2010 mascots:

Sumi is some sort of crazy mutant BearOwl wearing a Rollerball helmet with three Antichrist horns. His/Her eyes are set apart so far as to wonder how it sees forward. (Such a design decision is part of all of the 2010 mascots) Sumi also wears some kind of jersey/poncho in a funky Dark Green, Lime Green, Orange combination that is a worse look than the Vancouver Canucks mistaken jersey of the 80s. Overall, Sumi is a butchered bastard child of gene grafting.

I'm guessing Quatchi is a Sasquatch, and considering that the creature I'm most sure of is an urban legend, you can tell how far over the cliff we've gone here. Coming fully-equipped with Sky Blue earmuffs and crazy ink of the Olympic logos, for some reason he/she is also wearing boots which make Quatchi fairly civilized considering the wild origins of such creatures. Badly in need of a haircut, Quatchi also suffers from lack of elbows and bowed arms.

Miga is either a cat, panda or skunk, or all three together. Equipped with a scarf and all dolled-up with rouge, Miga looks like she/he's the one to be caught out on the town with a foreign athlete. Decked out in a green scarf suitable for S&M choke play, Miga looks most probable to win the most outstanding supporting mascot in an anime style. Not sure what the crazy Alfalfa cowlick is supposed to represent, but I'm guessing it comes in useful when the Sumi, Quatchi, Miga three way gets going underneath the bleachers pre-opening ceremonies... all I can say is that, if Miga is walking funny during the torch lighting, my views will be justified.

I think that during the preparation for the next Olympics, the world should demand real mascots that represent actual creatures. Maybe we should bring back Spuds Mackenzie and just have the IOC admit that the entire event is really about shilling products and selling television contracts.

Brought to you by the Official Blog of the Vancouver Games... lovehatethings.com

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DicksnjanesPodcast: DnJ233: pissnchips

2010-02-08T19:34:51

The Scarborough Dude mistakenly thought he had a chip on his shoulder.

MoviesForThe: Ep. 115 - Please Murder Me part 2

2010-02-08T14:01:19

After the trial, Craig (Raymond Burr) finds out what really happened and begins an elaborate scheme to punish the truly guilty – including himself. Click here to subscribe Click here to download directly from Blind File Sharing Different file sizes/formats from Internet Archive Associated links Angela Lansbury @Biography Channel UK Denver Pyle @Wikipedia

VoxmarketisingThe: your super bowl advertisements all in one nice tidy package

2010-02-08T13:02:34

A tip of the hat to my voice over friend Bill Pryce who noted Advertising Age’s summary of the 2010 Super Bowl ads for folks like me who were actually in the studio during most of the game (and not complaining about the bidness either). Bookmark to: Hide Sites $$('div.d3858').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });

QuirkyNomads: Flip Me

2010-02-08T12:00:23

QN episodes appear every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Keep up to date on ways to participate by joining the Facebook QN page. The sorts of things the popular girlies from my high school grew up to discuss at restaurants; and a mysterious boombox at the edge of Kensington Market. Elizabeth Green Musselman of Missing Link, [...]

TheDahTheory: EP 81- Grand Adventure

2010-02-08T09:23:04

Beer returns, a trip to a huge hole, the funniest News ever, Victor and Mike's voicemail, a new job, and movie day! Thanks Mike from Masters of None Podcast, and Grapist for the news story (You sick man)

MarketersMojo: Freshbooks Review: Best Free Time Tracking and Billing Software

2010-02-08T07:00:32

Want to spend less time billing your clients? I know I did before I started using Freshbooks. I used to spend hours every month preparing weekly reports and monthly invoices for my clients. Now it literally takes me just minutes to get my client invoices out, and I can spend my time doing things I actually [...]

VoxmarketisingThe: pretty darn funny

2010-02-08T02:32:52

In case you might have missed it during the Super Bowl…. Bookmark to: Hide Sites $$('div.d3851').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });

MarketersMojo: Podcamp Toronto 2010 - You Going?

2010-02-08T01:35:06

I posted the other day about one of my favorite ways to beat the winter blahhhs is to get out to marketing and networking events and meet people. I’m pretty excited about my little mini-getaway to Toronto in two weeks to go to Podcamp Toronto 2010. So much so in fact I did up this little [...]

Lovehatethings: thinglets: Alternative Superbowl Names So As Not To Get Sued By The NFL

2010-02-07T20:01:52

Since the NFL threatens to sue anyone who uses the name "Superbowl" outside of reporting on it as news, I've decided to give some alternate monikers for people looking to spice up their local events or eatery promotions:

The Big Game

The Recroom Drunkfest

The Prop Bet Gambler's Paradise

The Poolie's Delight

The Game That's Rarely Good

The Media Blitz

The Super Bowel

The Hope-I-Die-Before-The-Who-Plays-The... forget it.

The Vegetative State Extravaganza

The Six Hour Build Up To A Coin Flip

The Excuse to Party

The Not-Good-Enough-Of-A-Reason-To-Bump-The-Simpsons Bowl

The Overpaid Immature Mutant Game

The Stupidbowl

The Not-Yet-Ready-For-Prime-Time Bowl

The I-Waited-Two-Weeks-For-This? Bowl

The CarQuest International House of Pancakes Geico Bowl

The Beer Commercial Bowl

The Oh-Look-There's-Counter-Programming-Figure-Skating-On Bowl

The Smoka Bowl

The I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Better Bowl

The Hey-Look-At-That-Commercial-While-I-Steal-The-Last-Piece-Of-Pizza Bowl

The Are-Those-Really-Bits-and-Bites-I-Haven't-Seen-Those-For-Years Bowl

The Bathroom-Is-Off-Limits-For-10-Minutes Bowl

The I'll-Cheer-For-The-Opposite-Team-Of-Everyone-Else-In-The-Room-To-Be-Different-And-Controversial Bowl

The Why-Do-I-Have-To-Watch-Promos-For-Canadian-TV-Shows-And-Miss-The-Commercial-Memes-That-Will-Be-The-Talk-Of-The-Internet-For-The-Next-24-Hours-Thanks-To-The-CRTC Bowl

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DYS: Episode 69 - Innuendo Jones and The Onion Ring of Doom

2010-02-07T17:42:51

Show Notes Full Dysclosure Canada: Can this onion ring get more fans than Stephen Harper? Yes, yes it can. CRTC makes a rare acknowledgment of rural Canada. Content-makers in B.C. get two tax breaks. James Cameroon — wait, Cameron — hints at Avatar 2: Electric Bugaloo. Canada pwns US&A in digital music sales. Martha and the Muffins are back and we don’t care. Nelly [...]

SPaMCAST: SPaMCAST 78 - Buglione, Play and Learning, Manifestos

2010-02-07T16:33:41

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 78!In the Software Process and Measurement Cast 78 I interviewed Dr. Luigi Buglione. We focused our discussion on how play can improve learning in a technical environment but also touched on measurement and change. This was an intense interview that included many take aways that can be applied in your organization now!Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail: spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail: +1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook: http://bit.ly/16fBWVDr. Buglione's Bio:Dr. Luigi Buglione is Associate Professor at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) – Université du Québec, Canada and is currently working as Process Improvement Specialist at Engineering.IT (formerly Atos Origin Italy and SchlumbergerSema) in Rome, Italy. Previously, he worked as a Software Process Engineer at the European Software Institute (ESI) in Bilbao, Spain. Dr. Buglione is a regular speaker at international Conferences on Software Measurement, Process Improvement and Quality. He is also the Vice-President of the Italian Software Metrics Association (GUFPI-ISMA), where created the Software Measurement Committee (SMC), member of the ISBSG Technical Advisory Group, of the ISO/IEC WG10 Study Group and other technical national bodies on such issues.He developed and was part of ESPRIT and of Basque Government projects on metric programs, EFQM models, the Balanced IT Scorecard and QFD for software. He is also a reviewer of the SWEBOK project, co-authoring the proposal for a new Knowledge Area on Software Measurement for the upcoming 2010 edition.He received a Ph.D in Management Information Systems from LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome, Italy) and a degree cum laude in Economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. He is a Certified Software Measurement Specialist (IFPUG CSMS). Dr. Buglione's reseach can be found at www.semq.eu He also suggests visiting GUFPI-ISMA. The Italian full website is @ www.gufpi-isma.org , the new English section of the site @ http://www.gufpi-isma.org/eng/Contact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail: luigi.buglione@eng.itPhone: +39-06-8307.4472 Website: www.semq.euThe SPaMCAST's production schedule should be on the Software Process and Measurement Facebook page before this cast goes up! Yell at me if it is not there. Your thoughts, comments, suggestions and ideas are welcome.The essay SPaMCAST 78 is about the central threads or core truths that can be extracted from the myriad of manifestos currently being published. Either they are all copying from each other or there might be something to learn from them.Conferences and Speaking Engagements in 2010 (To Date)Are Your Project Stakeholders Satisfied February 11, 2010 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern Time Measuring customer satisfaction is more than just asking if your clients got what they wanted. Customer satisfaction is a messy mix of expectations, experiences, and perceptions - with maybe a hint of functionality. In this webinar, Tom Cagley will outline one method for measuring this mixture and for identifying what really matters in customer satisfaction.Learning Objectives: • How to define customer satisfaction • Strategies for identifying what really matters • A practical framework for measuring customer satisfaction • Not all attributes of customer satisfaction matter to the same level for all stakeholders Register at http://solutions.compaid.com/forms/WebinarA20100211?ProcessType=PreRegQuest Conference in Dallas April 21 - 23. I will be talking on "Process Improvement in a Multi-Model World". The conference includes two days of workshops. The website to get more information is http://www.qaiquest.org/dallas/index.htmlNext!The next Software Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Scott Stribrny. We discussed leadership, risk, requirements, business analysis and innovation. We had a great interview and covered a lot of ground including a discussion of one his recent articles, "We're Gonna Be in the Hudson."