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| | Wednesday, June 28, 2006 20:28:28 |
  Very nice drive down the Hanlon to go pick up Brianne from the barn this evening. I didn't want to leave the comfort of my programming den because I was getting some serious development done on the backup program's self updater, but the pretty sky and the fact that I might get to unicycle once I get there were little perks. I think it's the first time I've seen a 50% circle rainbow.
I would really like to work from home tomorrow but there's a stupid and pointless staff meeting tomorrow so I have to be there since I've been put on the first four agenda items. |
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| | Sunday, June 25, 2006 20:34:34 |
 Quite the weekend! We spent 90% of it preparing for and going to Brianne's friend Caroline's wedding. Brianne's Mom's best friend Euince is Caroline's aunt and since they were the first of the kids in the circle of friends and they've been hanging out since they were little. I was surprised how many people that were there that I knew. Brianne and I went to a corn roast a couple of years with most of the same people so I'd already met most of them there. The funniest part of the evening was the fact that no one recognized Brianne. Deirdra, another one of Brianne's Mom's friends actually recognized me first and then made the connection that the person with me must be Brianne. It was the oddest thing. We had a good time, we were sat at a table with Caroline's friends from Western and we all got along really well.
Once I had a nice long nap this afternoon, I went out to play on the unicycle. I can almost get on from standing every time now. It's just a matter of time before I'll be riding around the neighbourhood on one wheel. |
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| | Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:07:49 |
I'm trying a new spam strategy, mostly because it's driving me mental. I've been running the spamvertizements that I've been getting into the Bayesian database, but it doesn't seem to matter. So I updated all of the spam protection on my box and then I added in an optional bit that wasn't on before. The Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse, from what I've quickly gathered, has a list of spammy checksums for messages, and it works with SpamAssassin, it just has to be uncommented in your v310.pre file. We'll see what happens.
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 22:32:07
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis or you could say black lung disease writes:
My Yahoo account isn't trapping some spam either. I wonder if they have those special domain key permission thingys. I have had to just block a couple of domains recently. The spam has also been leaking through at work lately. |
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 22:40:47
Ian writes:
Actually, I finished installing it when I posted that and I've only had one spammy item and it was in russian or something since. Compared to the 10 or so I got yesterday afternoon/evening. Overnight's the big test. Lately in the morning I've had around 20 to trash. They aren't even being caught by GMail's spam protection either. I'm on the cutting edge of spam reception apparently. |
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| | Friday, June 9, 2006 17:29:52 |
It was a relatively simple task. Take a weekend and go into Algonquin's backcountry canoeing. Tom and I set a date a long time ago and said that this is when we'd go. We started getting prepped, training for the big day. Then earlier this week, Tom got a training injury. That is to say that Tom got Bellitis. Bell called him up and said; "Hey, you've got Bellitis and we're going to lock you away for the weekend and it's going to be the same weekend that you were planning to go away with Ian! Sucka!".
So, since I'd set aside the time and put in all of the training, I was determined to go. I borrowed Rob's canoe and Beth's cottage backs on to an Algonquin access lake and she let me use her place as a launch point. I drove all the way up, bought my permit for the two sites I was going to stay on and then packed up the canoe and headed out. Getting the dog into the canoe proved more of a challenge than I expected. The first couple of times I tried to lift her in, she thought I wanted her to jump over it, so she did just that, into the water.
Once the dog was finally in the canoe and understood that it would be a really good idea not to move, we headed out across Hay Lake. When we were over half way there, the wind picked up and because there's only one of me, it quite easily turned the front end of the canoe into a sail. If I was closer to the edge of the lake, that wouldn't have been an issue, but since I could, I just wanted to go straight to the first portage of the trip. As soon as the wind and waves picked up, Cricket went from sitting calmly to shaking and shivering and the rain got harder too. So after trying to fight it until I was tired, I gave up and fought that same wind all the way back to Beth's cottage. The whole process took way longer than it should have because it takes longer to steer and to paddle than it does if you have one person paddling and one paddling and correcting the steering. I called people to make sure it was okay that I stayed here and so it looks like I'm going to be hauled up here until the rain gives out and my permits are a donation to Algonquin for services I haven't used. If the weather wisens up tomorrow, I think I might try again. I'd really like to get out to the interior again, if not, I've got my laptop and my blackberry's got digital signal so I've got dialup speeds without occupying the cottage's party line and there's more than enough stuff to keep me busy here.
Now, I just wish I brought some beer, wings and chips for tonight. |
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| | Thursday, June 1, 2006 08:12:43 |
So yesterday, I was going to meet up with Tom and on the way there, the traffic was crap. Not because of the lightning or impending storm, because of a stalled tractor-trailer in an on-ramp lane at the 410 on the 401. Totally un-necessary slowdown. Anyway, the lightning provided quite the show and as I was nearing Mavis, a big bolt hit really close. Then when I got up to McLaughlin Rd. I saw that there was a hole about 30 centimetres in diameter and it was smouldering...
The pictures aren't great, but you get the idea. When I finally got to Mississauga, we had to leave because the lightning had driven up the static and given some of his equipment a seizure, so he had to go to fix it.
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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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! |
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| | 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. |
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