Author Archives: argilo

It’s been a month now since all my Rogers services were canceled, and I couldn’t be happier. The National Capital Freenet is providing me with great DSL service at a great price, and over-the-air television is working out wonderfully thanks … Continue reading →

Since moving to Ottawa, I’ve been getting cable television and internet from Rogers. It wasn’t bad for the first year or so, but since then they’ve been raising their prices every six months, sometimes significantly. It had reached the point … Continue reading →

A while ago, I was fooling around with a couple of the music recommendation services, Last.fm and Pandora. They didn’t suggest much interesting, with one notable exception: Action Figure Party. I heard their song “Everybody Ready” and loved it. I … Continue reading →

For the first time in my life, I’ve voted for the winning candidate in an election, namely Paul Dewar of the NDP! In fact, he ended up winning by a fairly large margin, which surprised me. Another surprising thing is … Continue reading →

Well, the Election Stock Market closed last night, and final prices would put the parties as follows: Liberal: 93 Conservative: 127 NDP: 33 Bloc Quebecois: 54 Others: 1 The Election Prediction Project, which does a riding-by-riding analysis based on user-submitted … Continue reading →

Here’s a cool idea: a stock market where you can trade in shares of the political parties. The final values of the shares will be determined by the election results, so if you can accurately predict the results, you can … Continue reading →

Since 1998, I’ve been a participant in the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a project which aims to find huge prime numbers. Just a couple weeks ago, the project broke the world record for the ninth straight time. The record-setting … Continue reading →

Well, it’s the start of a new year, and I thought I’d start things off by finally getting off my butt and putting together a new web site. I’ve had an Esperanto site for a few years now, but a … Continue reading →