Officially disguised as a Canadian
For the longest time, I have wanted to be a B-list celebrity. I get a kick out of being recognised as “that guy” from a play or a television commercial, but I would not want my face plastered across the front page of the newspaper (or Buzzfeed, he said, bringing his references up to date)Continue reading Engage!
In late 2000 or early 2001, I joined the Johannesburg PRIDE 2001 Organising Committee. I’ve written about my experiences of that year already. This post is something different, but related. Imagine you’re scanning your receipts for 2013 and 2014, and you accidentally move a PDF file to the wrong folder. Then you decide to sortContinue reading Where Is Your Pride?
Caustic, no-holds-barred, foul-mouthed, and a delight, and we’ll miss her. The opportunity to see her in April makes this less sad. So long, Joan. Give ’em hell up there.
I have been forced to retire [email protected] due to the incredible amount of spam that it receives. While most of this ends up safely in my spam folder, eliminating the address will stop almost 600 spam emails a week from existing. If you want to send me email, don’t do it on that address 🙂Continue reading Retiring an email address
There’s a period of around 18 months in the early 1990s, in my life, that had a profound effect on me. I am building up the courage, remembering all the pieces, and I’m going to write it down. It may also have coloured the memory of my father, because of his reaction and my reactionContinue reading The early 90s were not good to me
I’ve gone for a clean slate on rabryst.ca, this site’s official new home, after having merged and migrated my ancient website and sister blog into xqrx.com/pop. Of course that /pop/ subdirectory was meant to be temporary, and now I have a redirect file that is longer than my arm. Nevertheless, I felt it was timeContinue reading Website moved again
Regular followers will recognise the date of 22 May as the first day of the Smiters of Iniquity calendar year. As I mentioned last year on the Smiters’ forum, I will be naming the months of the year after disciples as they die, in honour of the memory left by Ian when he died, andContinue reading Happy New Year!
Happy new year.
As I noted in a previous entry, I’m going to be upgrading my SQL Server knowledge with the best minds in the business, in early 2012. To prepare myself for this training, I’m planning on going through the 40+ hours of videos that are provided for MCM training, as well as two of the requiredContinue reading SQL Preparation, Part the First
I’m off Facebook. I joined in (I think) 2006 and after the latest changes, combined with their increasingly bizarre opinion on privacy, I decided to run for the hills. The hills of Google+. Ironically, I wrote an article some time ago about Google and its potential to know everything about you. I may have evenContinue reading Google+