Author: Peter

CBC typos quiz typos

The real error in the quiz has been fixed, so I’ve removed the style that required people to swipe over the hidden answer. Thanks, CBC.ca editors!

There are two more spelling, grammatical, typographical and careless errors in CBC.ca’s You be the editor quiz than the answers indicate. Ironically, one is in the entry that’s purported to be completely correct. (If you’re viewing this in a CSS-capable browser, swipe the empty space below; if you’re not, or if you’re reading the syndicated feed, avert your eyes now!)

  • Question #15 has no opening double-quote (“) for the quotation.
  • Question #20 is more of a think-o, but all’s fair according to the rules: It was the first funeral for any of the victims…. Well, yeah.

Oh, and the answers for #7 and #16 also have typos, although the original questions are correct in this respect: #7 omits the word in in one of its corrections, and there is no opening double-quote (“) for the quotation in #16.

Hey, you make a challenge like that, you’ve got to expect this sort of thing. 🙂

This is why people pirate CDs

You can now PRE-ORDER the brand new “Barenaked Ladies Are Me” CD!

Order before Aug 22nd and receive as a bonus the “BNL: All New Revue (Live from the Glenn Gould Theatre)” disc FREE, which is a live acoustic version of the new album.

[…] These 13 songs will also be available digitally with a bonus of two tracks for purchase of the entire album. In addition, a 25 song package called Barenaked Ladies Are Me: Deluxe Edition, will be available digitally (album only). With the purchase of the Deluxe Edition, fans will be have the opportunity to obtain either two bonus tracks OR four bonus tracks for pre-ordering. Details on the digital pre-order to follow.

In addtion [sic], a USB stick featuring 29 songs plus other special content will be released Sept 12.

That means I can:

  • buy a 13-track CD today and get a CD with the same songs re-recorded live, but miss out on 16 songs plus “special content”
  • buy the same 13-track CD next month, but miss 16 songs, “special content” and the live version
  • buy a 13-track MP3-crippled FLAC version of the CD with two extra songs, but miss 14 songs plus “special content” and live version
  • buy a 25-track MP3-crippled FLAC version of the CD, but miss two songs and special content and live version
  • buy a 25-track MP3-crippled FLAC version of the CD, but miss special content and live version
  • buy a 29-track MP3-crippled FLAC version of the CD, get everything but the live version
  • buy the CD and the second (16-track?) release in 2007, get everything but the live version

Let me recap: in order to get all 42 tracks that are being released, I have to buy the album at least twice, and more than a third of the content will be at inferior quality.

Well colour me a little more pleased. According to their July 21 podcast, there will be a subsequent physical-CD release in 2007 that includes the additional tracks. Thanks BNL!

But wait, there’s more! From the BNLBlog: The best bet, frankly, [is] to download stuff (in high-quality flac format!) from barenakedladies.com… (emphasis mine). Good on you, gents!

Nice goin’, sis!

I would also like to specifically thank a small but remarkable team that managed the project and the production of this Final Report:

[…]

Anne Janes, B.A. (Hons.), M.P.A.
Policy Analyst

Rock, yo

Dear Peter Janes,

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Inside the CBC

The CBC’s new WordPress-powered official weblog. Neat. There are several articles cross-posted (actually, copied… annoying if you read both via their feeds, because the articles don’t share an ID and thus appear twice in aggregators) from honcho Tod Maffin’s iloveradio.org weblog so far, but a good selection of original stuff too.

There’s also a status blog. The blog is operating just fine now, though the editor is a bit under-caffeinated. Cute… but not that cute. The system is down, yo. 🙂

Update, 23:21: Ooh, first real disappointment: the RSS feed is summary-only. Is that a deliberate choice, Tod, or just an oversight in the WP config?

Update, 01:40: Gotta love the web. I added the previous update to this post less than two hours ago and Tod’s already found it and responded. That’s Phil Ringnalda-esque speed. 🙂

Canada Day 2006 update: I posted this as a comment on Inside the CBC, but I think it’s worth repeating here:

More than just blog content for individual shows, it’d be great to see more bloggers from within CBC as a whole. My Planet CBC aggregator site has picked up the personal “outside” blogs written by and associated with CBC folk, many of which are linked in Tod’s sidebar, but I’d love to see something like the Google Blog (and its spawn) or, ideally, a wide-ranging, open set of employee blogs like blogs.sun.com, which is “accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.” (Heck, Sun even has their own Planet site, which links to internal and external employee feeds.)

Folk, yo

Dear Peter Janes,

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Sympatico again

Jun 24 00:00:19 grok pppd[29655]: Connect time 11.1 minutes.
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Total sessions: 15
Average session length: 36 minutes

Thank you Sympatico

Gee, I just love my Sympatico service these days:

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