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Vancouver, 2002.01.17

I decided, for the first time in almost a decade, to try out one or two of the chat apps that are out there. It seems that there's been a bit of an advance there, in that people are moving to voice-over-IP chat rather than strictly typing messages in. This means you can go to a chat site such as yahoo.ca and hop from country to country listening to wacky accents from around the world. It was quite amusing. Of course, the content was the same as it ever was; flame wars, anonymous flirting, uninformed rants...

rand()m quote

Society is indeed a contract... [the state] is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

—Edmund Burke