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Originally, Ambit Online was the online home of my consulting business, but the site was a perpetual one page "under construction" wonder. When the business incorporated as Abivia, this domain became my personal site. I hope you find it enjoyable.
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It's Fixed in the Next Release

Want to know what's going on inside my head? You're probably mistaken.

If you're not convinced, then my blog, "It's Fixed in the Next Release" is probably as close as any rational person would want to get.

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Bell's Sympatico DSL Uptime

Just how crappy is my Sympatico DSL service from Bell Canada? Well it used to be pretty good, but lately it's been shutting down overnight. Let the statistics speak for themselves.

New Site Design, New Stuff

Saturday, 02 April 2011 15:35

This site truly is a personal project. It doesn't always have an agenda to follow, so it's a strange mix of sketch and reality. I don't promise to fill in all the sketchy bits, but I'll try.

New Design

This post marks the launch of a new site design. New Site Design is always an odd thing to say. If you've been here before, you will have already gone "hey, that's new". If you haven't been here before, it's pretty much not relevant. I got tired of issues with the old template and some of the choices I made with it, so I dropped in a new commercial template and cleaned things up. My hope is that the new site is more readable and easier to navigate.

New Stuff

What is new and relevant is that I'm writing and posting movie reviews. This came about because a friend of mine, who writes reviews herself, couldn't make it to a premiere and so she passed her tickets along to me with the comment "I'm looking forward to your review." So I wrote a review. Next thing you know I'm being encouraged to write reviews, and here we are.

My second review, for the not-very-good Hop, is already up. My first review, which was not really intended for distribution, will be posted once I do a little editing on it.

Twitter Feed

Follow @FxNxRl on Twitter if you have a perverse inclination to read garbage like this on a regular basis.

FxNxRL Does anyone know if Twitter's promoted accounts get billed by the conversion (follower?)

About 45 minutes ago.

FxNxRL Nesting down yet another level, "interceding negation" is a phrase I have oft searched for my never found until now. Writing it down.

About 1 hour ago.

FxNxRL In other news: I can't believe I just used "focus group" and "useful" without an interceding negation.

About 1 hour ago.

FxNxRL This fartography thing stands a really good chance of winding up in the Viral Hall of Fail. Maybe a focus group might have been useful.

About 1 hour ago.

FxNxRL I think I've just been introduced to the concept of fartography and I'm not entirely sure I'm the better for it.

About 2 hours ago.

FxNxRL Looking at an example of thinking inside the box, inside the box, inside the box. Unsalvageable. Next!

About 9 hours ago.

FxNxRL Broadcasters: promising an interesting story "after the break" then doing something else on return is an invite to LEAVE and Google it. #CBC

About 10 hours ago.

FxNxRL Best line from Rick Mercer in youtube.com/watch?v=x_3q_9… "the state has no business in the hard drives of the nation".

About 10 hours ago.

Ideas

Ideas are cheap. It's implementing ideas that's difficult. I have more ideas than I could ever implement, so I'm going to start recording them here in hopes that someone thinks the idea is good enough to implement.

Photography

I used to be a pretty decent photographer. Now I mostly take snapshots. I'm going to inflict some of them upon you.

Art & Architecture

I've dabbled in many forms of art. Ray-traced digital art, writing, drawing, architecture, even paint on canvas. Some of it can be good. Most of it reflects the small amount of practice I have put into it. I'm now sharing most of it. The grossly incomplete and embarrassing bits are the only significant omissions.

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