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i have injured myself on the internet

Steve — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:36:28 +0000

I have spent so much time staring at Achewood over the past few weeks that I have given myself some kind of stress injury.

dali was a headcase

Steve — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:18:50 +0000

got comped to the artist’s gala opening of the new AGO tonight. a+++ would visit again. you’re probably not supposed to take pictures of the art.

the brink of history

Steve — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:30:15 +0000

I’ve been known to get cranky about how Canadian news gets overtaken by US election coverage. I don’t mean to suggest that the subject is of absolutely no interest to me, but their election season lasts over two years (ours is about 37 days) and it’s pretty easy to reach saturation far in advance of the big day. This is Canada after all, not much happens here, and sometimes you need to insert American news into the newscast to fill up the awkward silences. And our poor journalists. There are only so many words in the English language. You run out after a while, and start saying things (as one CBC journalist did this morning) like “American voters stand at the brink of history”. In any case, if there’s one day out of the election season on which I can’t begrudge our neighbours a little attention it’s today. And so I’d like to wish all my American friends and relatives well, and express my hope that today’s outcome leads to a better day for you tomorrow.

apparently it’s da vinci code week

Steve — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:47:38 +0000

…on the History Channel. It’s their answer to Shark Week, I suppose. I’ve still managed to avoid both the movie and the book, though I did accidentally read The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, one of whose co-authors appears, dressed like D-Day from Animal House, in this evening’s greasily compelling conjectumentary Beyond the da Vinci Code. So while I figure out how to create a podcast with my DAW looking like this, I’ll leave you with the brilliant Andrew Maxwell’s review of Dan Brown’s bafflingly popular tome.

Canada’s Hockey Anthem Challenge entries uploaded

Steve — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:52:55 +0000

The National Game

I uploaded three Hockey Night in Canada theme contest entries this morning. To rate and comment on them on the CBC Hockey Anthem Challenge site, follow these links:

The National Game
Better Get It In The Net
Precarious (which you’ve heard if you’ve been following my podcast)

You can also get from one entry to another under the “More from Steve Castellano” link once you get there.

flatiron

Steve — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:05:38 +0000

First successful implementation of the Gorillapod, on the sidewalk outside C’est What after a few pints of “Hop Addict.” Note how, like the party guest that no one remembers inviting, the CN Tower insinuates itself into another photo of the Toronto skyline.

Episode 02: Listen there, comment here

Steve — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:33:26 +0000

I worry that there may be one of you out there, or perhaps less than one, maybe half of one of you, who subscribed to the Steve of the Web Podcast here at SteveCastellano.com before I had a chance to move it to its official home at steveoftheweb.com/podcast. So I’ve gone to the studio with my good friend Barry Whiteman to record a little audio redirect that we can now jam down the vestigial audio pipe to make sure there are no little lost sheep. Not that I mean to imply that my listeners are sheep.

And like the song says, please feel free to comment on Episode 02 here. Notice how I use that leading zero habitually – it’s my way of promising you at least eight more episodes before I get completely bored with podcasting. Well, before I stop. I may not stop just because I’m completely bored.

have you seen these spirit killers?

Steve — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:06:11 +0000

Found street art.

Edit: Pardon me. Sprit killers.

nothing to say other than wordpress rocks

Steve — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:46:05 +0000

i’m saving it all up for the podcast now. this post is just killing space. andrew maxwell is the funniest living irishman next to dylan moran, nevermind leary, word has it he nicked his best stuff from bill hicks, who’s dead now, so who’s to know. what else. getting a gorillapod or two, flip video is cool, and oh yeah, WORDPRESS ROCKS. this blog runs on wordpress, i’ve just upgraded to 2.6, don’t even know what’s been improved, but every release is better. of course there are bugs now and then. some things break. but it’s not like your major commercial software companies, the bug report is public, you get to read the same one the devs read from, they don’t hide it from you and then make you wait on off-shore tech support for two hours before telling you it’s your fault. they take a swing at fixing it. if all the software on my computer ran as well as wordpress did i’d be running the goddamned planet by now. so if you’re not wordpress, or flip video, or andrew maxwell, or the guys who make the gorillapod, suck it.

Edit: Well it turns out the image gallery feature is still broken, so I take most of that back.

Steve of the Web podcast goes solo

Steve — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:45:52 +0000

The Steve of the Web podcast now has its own blog at steveoftheweb.com/podcast. It’s also available via the iTunes store. We’ll still announce new episode launches here, and we’ll discuss them in the comments here at stevecastellano.com. I hope this all makes sense. To sum up:

go to iTunes to subscribe and leave reviews for the world to read
go to steveoftheweb.com/podcast for transcripts and housekeeping updates if you’re interested, but that blog is really just the engine that pumps out the podcast and you won’t be able to post comments there
discuss the podcast, ask questions, and make content requests here in the podcast announcement posts (such as the one directly below this one)