by Michael Werneburg

articles

These are my many articles. Given a chance, I'll hold forth on nearly any subject.

the nature of reality

I am very wise. I mean I must be, I have a website!

personal articles

A few personal articles.

reviews

Reviews of books and movies, stretching back to '97.

health articles

Everyone has some health issues. As a lifelong sufferer of allergies, migraines and asthma I've decided to share a few of my experiences.

advice for my son

This is advice written for my son. He's only little as I start this (five months and change), but a the rate I write, I figure by the time I've got a worthwhile collection together, he'll

information technology articles

These are some articles I've written based on my experience within the information technology field.

doing business in Japan

Interested in starting your own business? It's not what you might expect.

genealogy

I've been interested in genealogy for many years. These are some of the interesting findings

recipes

Amazingly enough, I've got enough recipes on this website to make a little section.

what's new

visitor favourites

tools

rand()m quote

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
-Somerset Maugham

copyright

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reader comments
gravatar for chan
thanx




I found the same zip file images a year but since my computer crash, all those images were lost. i've been also looing for the it ever since. just wanted to say thanx
chan
2001.12.16
Errm, yeah! A real confederacy of pirates, we are.
-Michael
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Hockey
I arrived via a search for quotes on the topic of an impending 30th. I must say that I wished i had no come across this site as now I feel utterly unaccomplished.



Canuck, where is the Hockey, my boy? have I in some way overlooked your thoughts on the national sport or is Lord Stanley rolling in his grave as i write these words?



Outstanding site, by the way. There is something so telling about your attention to order & detail in a friendly way. Certainly a far cry from the gif-riddled abominations I & my kind foist upon our visitors.



Regards



Dan



p.s. GO RANGERS!
Dan
2002.02.01
Well, I guess there's not a lot of hockey cos I haven't played it in years and I don't have the $$ to go watch it here in Toronto.

God help us when *I* make someone else feel unaccomplished. I'm currently sitting on a year of unemployment!

-Michael
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know what you say
I'm upset to hear that you put 0 out of 5 for transat. But what really pissed me off is your rumor about them hiring restaurent staff....



This is kind of an ignorant comment. Their are laws in canada about safety for the passengers. ALL canadian airlines have to train their flight attendants the same way. And if you have less than 85% in one exam, you cannot graduate from the course. You should think an read some books before making a comment like that. It is just proving your ignorance.



And by the way when you shop at WalMart do you except to buy Armani? You wanna be cheap and save a couple of hundreads, then you get what you paid for.
sonia
2002.02.07
I'm not sure how many books one should have to read in order to relate one's experience with an airline. I'm sorry you took offence at what I wrote, but I only have my own experience to convey.

As for your 'question', I don't shop at Walmart, nor do I have any interest in Armani. But when I fly with an airline, I don't *expect* my bording pass to be taken away just because some check-in clerk accepted a few $. I do *expect* to fit in the seats. Air Transat offers neither of these.

Also, the rumour came from a former employee, I can only relate what I hear.

-Michael
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I WAS WONDERING IF YOU HAD THE FACES OF SMILE NOW CRY LATER?
MIKE HAM
2002.06.21
Um.... I assume you mean a tattoo design with the happy and sad player's masks common to stage acting? If so, then no.

-Michael
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S10 problem in XP




Hello,



My name is Wil and i live in a small village in Holland. I worked with the S10 Photosmart scanner in Windows 98SE on a SCSI-card. I Have now a new computer with XP. I put the SCSI-card in the new computer and installed the S10 software. It doesn’t work. I found a new driver S10/S20 and it works. But now occured a problem with Photoshop 7.0. After the first scan he refused to scan again with the message An other programm is using it, but there is no programm in the background. I wonder if you hear of this problem.



Many thanks for your answer.



Wil.



PS: I will return to your site to read it totally.
Willem A Kok
2002.06.25
It doesn't sound like anything I've faced -- best contact HP directly (and good luck with that!)
-Michael
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life is bizarre
Interesting site, to say the least...
Alexandrianna
2002.07.20
Thanks! Alexandrianna is a beautiful name.

-Michael
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i happen to love that oh so brilliant piece of british comedy that is monty pythons flying circus and if you know of rowan atkinson, (well that wierd lookin' guy called BEAN, another of his works)



i believe you have one of his quotes



"drink and be merry for tommorrow you may contract a horrible skin disease"



which makes more sense in the movie's context being in the dark ages) anyway, this great series that i've been ranting about is called THE BLACK ADDER i think it's great and just wanted to inform a possible future 'Rowan' fan you don't have to email back, i just wanted to send this out into the void



check it out



<(c:}
2002.08.16
Thanks for your comments. One of my favourite bits from Black Adder was in the "Black Adder Goes Forth' series, when he dodges an order for his men to go "over the top" in the trenches to their certain death. He points out that the orders are to "Catpain" Blackadder, rather than "Captain" Blackadder....

-Michael
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Just curious if Patti Rempel was formerly Patti Bradley of Moncton.
Neil
2002.12.11
Nope!

-Michael
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Weird airlines
Hi



If anyone has any ideas of weird airlines that operate around the world could they email me... I already have naked air and Hooters... any others. My email is alexpoulson / at / yahoo.co.uk



thanks



alex
alex poulson
2003.04.01
Hmm! As another comment on this site indicates, the Australians equate the verb 'root' with 'to f*ck'. In Canada there was briefly a 'Roots' airline (owned by the people who run the clothing line). I imagine that would be interesting to an Aussie. I'm not sure if you Brits use the same slang, Alex?

-Michael
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Money!
We canadians know what a quarter, nickel, dime, penny, toonie, loonie, etc. is. Aussie's don't have any such names for thier coinage. For them, it's a 10 cent coin, 5 cent coin, 20 cent coin, etc. You'd figure they'd "ie" them.
Spencer
2003.04.08
Good point, Spencer. It is surprising they're not tennies and fivies. Happily, the Australians did away with the penny and don't seem to miss it. I wish we'd ditch them; I understand they cost about a cent to make, and the only reason that's true is that we make them from steel, now.

I once asked a clerk whether the Aussies didn't have 'names' for their coins, and she said, "No, that's just you Americans." (sigh)

-Michael
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I'm back!
Hiya!



I was organizing my fav's and clicked on your site again. I had forgotten I had visited here a few weeks ago. (Pre-alzheimers?) I re-read my post to you, and low and behold, I DID get a TATTOO!! As well as my daughter getting her eyebrow peirced (which was just plain ICKY to watch, even with me being a surgical nurse). I decided on something small, and unique to me... something that would be a constant in my life... for my tatt. It's my astrological sign of Cancer, but the glyph, not the actual crab. I had it put on my right ankle and it's about 2 cm wide. I was very excited and showed my co-workers and surgeons. Can you believe they all thought it was a sideways 69? For God's sake!!! I obviously have a wild reputation for them to ONLY think I would get something sexual, LOL!! Anyway, I love it, it is sexy, and I am very happy with it. And yes, when you get an income and back to Toronto, you must dine at Dantes.
Lynne
2003.04.14
Congrats, Lynne, I'm glad you're happy with the tattoo. I'm working once again, so I guess I've got no excuse not to run out and try this place.

-Michael
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libra




i'm aware that you like scorpio, but i need a design desperatley for cancer and libra together somehow.I'm having difficulty with this. If you can help that would be great. This is for lower back. I have 2 others on my left arm. Thank you.
stephanie radmore
2003.05.12
Hi, Stephanie. Unfortunately, I don't have access to any drawing programs at the moment. I've been looking for an old copy of CorelDraw or whatnot. Don't wait on my account!

-Michael
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Ha




Your scheme worked!



I googled myself and found you page.



What a Great Idea.



Drop me a line.



But don't post my email please
Richard Seabright
2003.07.10
Haha! You just posted your own email. Hang on, I'll edit it out of the message that gets left on the site when you do that. So, that's three people caught by my little autogoogling page....

-Michael
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Dilbert strips




You used to have a collection of Dilbert strips on your site. I'm after a list of filenames of strips with the embedded code in the date. I have a couple of months worth. Do you have such a list? If so, I'd be very greatful if you would send it to me. I'm not after the strips themselves, only the filenames. Thanks in advance. --Jim



Hi, James;



Unfortunately, the dilbert site only seems to keep about four weeks worth of comics online. I'll forward my perl widget for retrieving them. It contains the bits that indicate where the files are stored on the Dilbert site. I think the code appears somewhere on my site, but I'm not certain where! ;)
James Smith
2003.08.13
Whereabouts are you in Austrlia? I lived down there for a while. 'twas very good. Mmmm, baramundi and Aussie wine.

-Michael
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maria nadia H P




i am looking for nadia maria from sverige your DAD FAR sharif
misteroara
2003.08.24
Uh, are you looking for your daughter on my web site?

-Michael
gravatar for Brian
Need your help
I like your work and thought you might know where I could get a pic of an all BLACK lion. I have searched the net for many days with no results and dont want to pay an artist tons to have one made. If you can help id so appreciate it



Thanks
Brian
2003.09.02
Thanks for the comment, Brian.

Not sure what you mean by a black lion. A panther or jaguar or rather a lion that is in black (I've never seen the latter)? Try the google.com 'images' search, or the altavista.com version. They're both quite good.

result 1

result 2

Good luck!
-Michael
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airline ratings
I have a page about airlines, and will probably put a link to your page. if you want to have a look at mine, there it goes:



www.alexdoria.t2u.com



all the best



Alex
alex
2003.09.07
That's a decent home page, fellow former Geography major!

-Michael
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Plonk
"Plonk" originated with British troops in France in World War I. It was their pronunciation of "vin blanc" (white wine) but soon came to mean any cheap wine. Note that "Rumpole of the Bailey" goes to Pomeroy's Wine Bar for "plonk."
Paul
2003.10.15
My grandfather made wine. Dreadful stuff. Some of his 'winemaking' habits (such as upping the alcohol content with vodka) would surely have landed him trouble in some parts of Europe. He called his wine 'Chateau plonk' or something of the sort.

There were many things he did well, but by God winemaking wasn't one of them.

-Michael
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Shane Faulkner....




The website you posted www.kingoffools.com is where he's working now....He's a great artist, as some of my friends have work done from him. And the other guy Dameon Rowanchilde (sp?) is another excellent artist who's working at urbanprimitive in toronto....
gina
2003.11.03
Thanks, Gina.

-Michael
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cindy chudyk




hey...i'm not actually cindy chudyk, but she was a former teaCHER (at E.L.C.S.S.) it was weird to see her name here...she IS a geography teacher....don't even ask why i was googling my teahcer.s
cindy chudyk
2003.11.18
I won't ask, "lovely decay", I won't ask.

-Michael
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"I know this, this is Unix!" scene in J




In that scene, it WAS Unix, SGI's Irix to be precise. At one time someone posted a link to the source of the 3d file browser that was used in the movie. It was some sort of experimental VR file browser. Sure, most Unix or Unix like OSs are not like that, but then my 128mb AGP8x 3D card can render a very nice "#"



SGI's FSN - 3d Filesystem Navigator [sgi.com]. For IRIX 4.0.1 - 5.3 only.



http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
2003.12.02
Yup. But the scene associates that visual context with "UNIX", thereby earning at least some cringe factor. ;)

-Michael
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I am looking for a woman from Tulsa named Debbie Sowell. Sorry to use your page this way Mike but if it worked for you maybe it will work for me too! Her parents were Homer and Ruby Tremble (or Trimble) This is NOT the Debbie Sowell who is Dean of Instruction in the Math Department at Oral Roberts.
Leslie
2004.01.13
Good luck, Leslie.

-Michael
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Your website
Boy oh boy was I having a brunette moment or what took me 5 min to figure out the guestbook and they say it's just blondes who are dumb lol Anyhow enough of my rats I'm going to be short and sweet here Your site impressed me great job . Much enjoyed blah blah blah :)



Rose



http://www.todays-woman.net
Rose
2004.04.04
Thanks, Rose. Gouod luck with your website.

-Michael
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Fire House 357
Do you know where I could buy that fire house 357? I looked on legos web sight.
Amanda
2004.05.20
I have no idea, Amanda. Sorry.

I've found that LEGO doesn't really hold up that well past maybe fifteen years or so. I doubt you'd find that any of the old LEGO Town stuff would still be in good enough condition even if you did find it....

-Michael
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Like a previous poster I now have 2 young boys and my parents recently brought out the old "stack O Lego" and all the parts are there but the manuals have been long gone. Any updates on the originals?
R. Babiak
2004.05.30
No. I have the old manuals, but no way of scanning them!

-Michael
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instructions
instructions can be found at:



http://www.brickshelf.com
abc
2004.07.19
thanks!
-Michael
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i like pie and pickles but no no 1 likes



George W Bush do they........
BiN Lager
2008.03.01
That's for sure. Well, aside from the satirists.
-Michael
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Interesting
Quite a bit of information on here. Good stories, pictures are very nice as well. Loved the Japanese Toilet story, you forgot to mention that not all toilets are blowing scented air. Most of them are just blowing warm air which of course floats upwards...



Michael Hansard
2008.12.19
Thanks for the comment.



I didn't know that toilets blew scented air! :(
-Michael
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received wisdom (har har)
You should check your source on the stella awards referred to above... According to the stella awards website, they are not real stories, but fabrications.



stellaawards.com/bogus.html
Stephen
Tokyo, Japan
2009.05.20
Oh dear. Will check it out. Thanks for the tip!!
-Michael
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