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Monday, May 29, 2006 19:01:36      The internet is a scary place. This is a perfect example of that. This is original Numa Numa video that was being passed around online a few years ago. Now, go to Google Video and search for Numa Numa and you'll get some particularly crazy videos, basically coping that one. I'm not sure what the deal is, like if it was in the video or something or these people all just felt the desire to lip-sync to this song or what. This one is particularly irritating/disturbing and I stumbled upon one last time accidentally which I can't seem to find now. But I did find this little gem. And now, our feature presentation... Cricket attacks water

Monday, May 29, 2006 14:09:15      Well isn't that just highly offensive? I just got some spam with the subject: "From now on Honey, we'll be spelling everything with letters." which, for those who aren't Simpsons fanatics, is what Homer says when they drive by a house whose numbers are written out. Well, it's not quite the quote, but it's pretty close. I think we need a new spam solution. Like an email license or something, and it should be able to be revoked if you don't follow the guidelines.      It's a hot one today, car says 35 degrees. What's the best thing to do on the hottest day of the year so far? Move? No... have a TTC strike so that you have to walk to work and get all sweaty. Yay TTC. Fortunately for us we only needed the TTC last week. Brianne went to visit Ailise and we went downtown on Saturday to celebrate Brianne's birthday. Here's pictures...

Thursday, May 11, 2006 08:14:37      I like free wireless internet. If I'm paying you a bajillion dollars to service my vehicle, you should have the courtesy to buy a cheap ol wireless router so that I can use the net here. I'm glad the dealership here has that covered for me. Unfortunately I didn't know, so I left my Wifi phone at home. Otherwise, I'd have my whole office set up here.      If I was in the GTA however; I could use my blackberry, but dial-up speeds don't compare to broadband in the 1X land.

Friday, May 5, 2006 14:18:38      I finally got my blackberry 7250 upgraded to evdo on Bell's network. It's fast, cool and I'm teathered to my laptop right now which brings out the serious convenience of this whole thing. Next step, find one of those Asus routers which run OpenWRT and have USB ports so that I can connect my laptop to the car via WiFi and then connect to the EVDO network via the blackberry. The ping times are low enough that I may even be able to use it for voip phone calls, that's probably hoping for too much.      Gotta hit the gym, then drive around a bit more to see what the coverage is actually like in my day-to-day.      Upgrade Instructions... I went to Square One where they were extremely helpful. I was the first BB upgrade too. Bell World at Heartland proved useless and I still haven't got my call from those other wait lists I put myself on, we'll see if those ever show up. Friday, May 05, 2006 15:35:49 Ian writes: What crap! I just drove down to the farm where we used to live because Brianne's working at the end of that street. From there, I have near-perfect EVDO signal and I could have had high-speed internet access from there if this had existed then... Grr. Friday, May 12, 2006 13:57:30 Blueeyes in the T.Dot writes: Hey! I'm getting a Blackberry too... with a Bluetooth headset. Thank you Huron College. The senior team for the residences are getting them so that we can stay in tough like we need to! I'm pretty excited about it... and supposedly the whole highspeed thinger is right at the hospital too! (just up the street) Hooray!

Friday, May 5, 2006 06:08:03      I typed this whole brilliant article about Bell upgrading blackberry 7250s as of yesterday, then I visited Bell's site to find out how much the new tethering plan is going to cost (because they're jackin' up the rates) and then their site crashed firefox. Such crap. Just like braking in bad weather, save early and often.

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 19:19:42      I just got my stats engine up and running again. Apparently it hasn't been processing pages since Decemeber and no one notice until last week. So, all week long I've been babysitting it while it processes page after page. Once it finally got caught up, I started looking through the matches to figure out how people end up here. Quite a few people search for goblogyourself.com which is an alias to this site. Eventually, I'd like to set up some kind of place where you can go blog yourself, but for now, it just points to here. I'm happy to report, that this page is the number one match for dead taste bud when you're searching from Canada and also number one for epileptical machine worldwide. Now there's something to be proud of.      Had a nice little Wednesday today. Got up early, took out the trash, made breakfast and then got down to work. Then took off for a nice lunch that Brianne made for me and then went out with the dog for some exercise and some sun. Brianne's at the barn riding around and I'm at Tom's waiting for him to get here while I drink his beer.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 15:09:18      Check this out, at www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/ you can watch a live camera feed of an eagle's nest. There are two eggs in the nest right now and one's due to hatch tomorrow and the other on April 30th. The camera quality is really good and there's sound too!

Monday, April 24, 2006 20:03:45      I made the Mercer Blog! rickmercer.blogspot.com and mine's about the tenth one down.

Monday, April 24, 2006 08:01:56      Extremely productive weekend this weekend. On Saturday we pulled down the shed in Tom's backyard. It went quite well. Swinging the sledge around all day is quite the workout. My arms still ache a little bit today. I'll post the video later. I don't know many people who have more than one video of a shed being pulled down by a vechicle.      Yesterday I finally proof-read our taxes and then paper-clipped them up so that we can send them off and get our refund. I would have had everything done already except that we were missing a T5 and we can't file online this year because we're changing our address and adding direct deposit information. It's pretty ridiculous that you can't do that all online or over the phone. Just because it's printed out doesn't make it any more official.      Then in the afternoon, I fiddled with our shower. I figured out what was happening that made us have powerless showers. The spout with shower diverter is supposed to be one peice, but the plastic part inside ours had become seperate from the metal part which looks shiny. I think it's a Moen too, so maybe you don't buy those for life. Anyway, $25 later we have a diverter which works and now the shower is amazing. It's like standing in a wall of water. I think I'm going to start hanging out in there until the novelty wears off.

Sunday, April 23, 2006 11:37:15      George Bush is mezmerizing.

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