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Does anyone know where I can get Question Period videos online?

Posted by Tyler Kinch on 4th November 2006

I will be recording question period, if I can’t find any.  However it would be great if I could find some online specifically with the President of the Treasury Board (the loud guy… I don’t remember his name) and Jason Kenney. And actually some with David Emerson as well. I’m putting together a political music video to a song called “Angry People”, and I got a great idea in my head.

If you know where, add a comment to this thread. It will be greatly appreciated and I will add your name or alias to the credits.

Posted in Fun, Music, Politics | 2 Comments »

Buy your milk… on the net!

Posted by Tyler Kinch on 23rd September 2006

I just found out Amazon offers different types of food for sale, including milk!

Just make sure you don’t get it ground shipped. And read the reviews for a good laugh!

Edited to add: Check out these other gourmet foods. Dole iceberg lettuce and romaine lettuce!

Posted in Fun | 2 Comments »

Universal Music Releasing Entire Catalog For Free Over The Internet

Posted by Tyler Kinch on 29th August 2006

Well it looks like Universal will be offering its entire catalog for free at a website called Spiral Frog by the end of the year. One catch though, you have to watch advertisements before downloading.

I like the concept. I think people will use this as it is legal (no guilty feeling) and safer (No viruses, etc.)

It does have DRM though, and won’t be compatible with the iPod. Quite pointless in my opinion, as it seems like almost everyone and their dog has one these days. Those people will just continue with iTunes Music Store or they will just download them illegally.

At least they are sort of embracing the internet.


Edited to add:

It looks like this is even worse than it sounds. The service is not just ad supported but ad enforced:

Spiral Frog will offer a desktop downloader for Windows Media Files (no iPods!) that can be listened to on one PC and two portable devices. Here’s the kicker - you must log in to the Spiral Frog service at least once per month, and see their ads, or your files will stop playing! The details aren’t fully set in stone, but it will be something like that. There will be links to third party sites of the record labels’ choosing if you’d like to buy your freedom to at least skip the ads.

Looks like they still can’t get anything right. Just ruining good ideas with more restrictions and less freedom.

Posted in Misc, Music | 1 Comment »

Server Hacked, Backing Up

Posted by Tyler Kinch on 27th August 2006

I apologize to everyone who could not access this site the past few days due to some server problems. I lost a bunch of my previous posts but I am able to recover the majority of them. So the old posts will be coming back up over the next few days (All comments were lost unfortunately though.) and I will be updating the blog like regular now that I am back from vacation.

That’s all.

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Vacation! Sorry No Blogging

Posted by Tyler Kinch on 22nd August 2006

Just a heads up for everyone who reads my blog, I will be leaving for vacation on Tuesday night. I will be going back to my hometown of Penticton to soak up the sun with my girlfriend, Kathleen. Hopefully I don’t run into Stockwell Day, he scares me for a guy whose suppose to be looking out for public safety. (Did I ever tell you the time that I hit Stockwell Day with a spit ball in the forehead at a school assembly? That’s for another post if I didn’t.) I hope everyone has an awesome week! I know I will be enjoying it as I will be going back to school on August 28th! It’s already been a year since I was last there, hopefully I didn’t forget how to learn.

Anyways, Ciao!

Posted in Life, Misc | No Comments »