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University of Waterloo Bookstore violates Visa merchant guidelines

Those of you who know me or read this site will understand that I have very strong feelings about how financial and credit card transactions are supposed to work. Today I attempted to purchase a textbook for SCI 205, Physics of High Fidelity Sound Reproduction. Apparently the original book used for the course is out [...]

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So, what exactly happened Friday night?

This is an accurate representation of our kitchen area circa Saturday morning at about 10am. Anyone walking in and viewing this scene would probably wonder just what exactly transpired.
For the past week or so, my roommates and friends have been in exam mode. I’ve been spared the same indignity this fall, since I’m presently on [...]

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Rrrrroundup of school, work and hardware upgrades

And here’s the wrapup.

Spring 2008 term has officially ended. For the past few days I’ve been trying to relax; as opposed to creating content for the Web, there’s been a lot of Halo 3 and other video games going on.
I start again at RIM on September 2nd. Things haven’t changed much from when I was [...]

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Why you should be the guy who corrects the teacher

Lets face it. Nobody likes that guy [or girl] – the one who always pipes up and corrects the teacher. Its annoying, and usually he disturbs class just to make himself look smart.
The unfortunate fact is that we should all be that guy. I realized this today as I was sitting in Math class when [...]

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