November 2006

I resisted MySpace for a long time but then most of the internet ended up over there. I gave in and use it to promote Exploit Boston Game Night and find bands for the radio station.

It must be a funny joke around the MySpace office that everyone on the internet uses their ugly website. They seem to refuse calls from the 1998 internets asking for their layouts back. I suppose it could be worse: there are no frames.

My last tinkering endeavor on Exploit Boston’s MySpace page is to get the “Sooz @ Exploit Boston is in Your Extended Network” table (top right of the page) to display a specific image. I managed to get the words to hide; but I can’t figure out how to get the background image to show up.

If you know the specific CSS class to use for this, let me know!

Last month we moved Exploit Boston Game Night to its new home at Soul Fire, a BBQ restaurant in Allston at 182 Harvard Ave. It’s up the street from the former location and a couple blocks closer to the Green Line’s “B” train stop (at the corner of Harvard/Comm Ave.) The good: better lighting, friendly staff, good food & prices, more tables and you order at the counter so no need to be stuck at the same table the entire night (waiting for your check from a waitress). The bad: Soul Fire is a new restaurant and they don’t have a liquor license yet. The hopeful plan was to have it in time for the December 5th game night but that might not be happening. We managed to have fun last time without alcohol so I am optimistic we’ll be able to do the same on December 5th. Wonder Bar is next door for anyone who needs a beer break.

A former colleague from our days at MediaOne HQ wrote an Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times this weekend describing his relocation to Canada after Bush’s re-election in 2004 in light of the recent win by Democrats in DC. They apparently wanted him to write something humorous. I think he did a great job of adding a few funny tidbits with a real story, too.

But it turns out that Canadian conservatism can look awfully liberal. So far, Harper — derided as “Bush lite” — has, for instance, introduced a partial tax credit for monthly transit passes. The Conservatives have proposed a Clean Air Act for Canada, and although it’s not ideal, it’s still something. Harper said that these new laws would “institute a holistic approach that doesn’t treat the related issues of pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions in isolation.” When was the last time you heard any U.S. politician utter the word “holistic”?