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| Tailgate Caught on Film | Thursday, January 11, 2007 23:53:37 |
Last night was the annual Landscape Ontario Tailgate Party and this years' theme was Landscape Ontario Idol. I recorded a couple of the fantastic performances on my camera, check 'em out...
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| iPhone uPhone wePhone | Wednesday, January 10, 2007 08:36:51 |
 At Congress, same ol' same ol', but the big news today is Apple's new iPhone. The phone itself looks cool, and boasts cool features, but there's some serious potential there. It runs OSX on the phone and has 802.11 b/g WiFi built-in. Since it's also a phone, you have the "EDGE" network at your disposal too. By combining those two, you're technically going to be able to make it so that your phone rings a VoIP application if you're around a WiFi access point and if you're not, the call could roll over to the edge network and get you when you're not. It would mean that I'll have to switch to Rogers if I wanted to get in on this, but I think I'll wait until they iron out the kinks in the system. For example; if the iPhone scratches as well as my iPod, I don't want one. |
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| Reid can Count | Thursday, January 4, 2007 08:18:51 |
Tara Reid can't count. She's hosting this new years party and started counting down from 60, but she gets lost part of the way. Gotta love the look on Pedro's (Efren Ramirez) face when she screws it up.
Sunday, January 07, 2007 22:36:59
Oh no! writes:
the video has been removed. |
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Monday, January 08, 2007 06:31:40
Ian writes:
Updated video URL. |
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| New Year More Movies | Tuesday, January 2, 2007 23:58:42 |
Happy 2007! I'd like to start this year off with a bang... So without further Apu, I'd like to present; "How blondes make porn"...
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| Spam is a Reliable News Source | Wednesday, December 20, 2006 11:12:50 |
Bad news small guys; According to the latest spamvertizements, 89% of women need a larger member to be satisfied. That is a great statement, full of no sources and no base for what "larger" is in relation to. It's almost as good as this one; "100% of women die" which Brianne found in the Toronto Sun one day. |
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| Nerdly Notes and the Beginning of a Pool Addiction | Monday, December 11, 2006 09:20:30 |
  You know, some ideas are good and some are just a waste of time. Nerd Vittles posted an article about how to configure your Mac to play iTunes tracks and then have them controlled by a menu on your Asterisk box. Good idea, right? I'm not so sure it's all that convenient. If I want to change tracks, I don't find it all that convenient to use asterisk to do it via a voice menu. I would say that an interactive menu on the Cisco display would be far quicker and easier to navigate. Alternatively, I would think that getting a bunch of infra-red receivers strategically located around the house, wired back to LIRC on a mac would be way more convenient. Still, nothing compares to the Dell Media Keys. That was a huge influence to me while selecting a new laptop. I can be typing away, without having to change applications, I stretch my thumb down and press the function I want, without any loading or waiting.
Anyway, excellent weekend. Friday night, went to the IASL Christmas party. We went to the Crooked Cue in Etobicoke. Really classy place, excellent pool tables, food and environment. Then Saturday was the annual Chanady Financial Christmas open house where the food is always fantastic. They spare no expense when it comes to the fine beverages too. Lots of holiday cheer. Then to recover, Tom and I climbed some ladders and put some lights up on his place. We're nowhere close to the Lindsay family's light show but we aspire to their level of excellence.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006 22:37:50
Just a few LED strings here and there writes:
The Lindsay video is out. |
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006 22:39:51
Just a few LED strings here and there writes:
Oops! That was last year's link. Here's the correct one. |
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007 00:11:50
Ian writes:
I work with Angela Lindsay who's husband and brother-in-law master-mind this technical feat each year. In October she told me all about it. Any geek would be impressed. Brianne and I went to check it out after we did the bulk of our Christmas shopping on December 16th. Fantastical. I also heard later on that the town actually donated some cops to keep order in store on the court. |
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| Flinging Things into Dumpsters | Friday, December 8, 2006 16:26:18 |
The power supply died in my asterisk box today, so after I replaced it, I took it upon myself to get rid of it... permanently. You can't see the dumptser in the video, but I got it in. |
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| MythTV Frustrations | Monday, November 27, 2006 17:03:30 |
I've figured out the method to the madness that is deleting recordings with MythTV with MythWeb when you have 800 of them. The trick is to open a "tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log" and have it running in the background. Then click Delete or Delete + Re-record and press OK. The important thing to do is to wait until the log shows the "Sheduled #### items in blah seconds... " once that's done, then you can delete the next one. If you try before then it all goes to crap.
Speaking of crap, I moved into my new office yesterday. I need a new wall and a desk and stuff, but I figured now is as good of a time as any. Yeah, now would be fine except the new girl who sits nearby has a radio tuned to that Toronto station that plays Christmas carols for two months before Christmas. I flexed my power and promptly got a new pair of headphones to get through the time without a sound dampening wall.
One major positive of the move is that they all leave at 16:00 over here, so I only have to wait until 4pm to crank it up. |
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| | Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:24:53 |
  Have you watched any of this Planet Earth series by the BBC? It's full of the most amazing footage. CBC Newsworld ran the first five episodes near the end of the summer, and we thought that was it, but Greg was looking around online and found out that there's eleven in total. I shot off a quick email to the CBC and then got a prompt reply telling me that the full 11 episode series will be aired in 2007, starting January 18th on CBC Newsworld. Very cool. I'm sure if you really want to see it before then though, you could download one of the torrents as BBC is airing the whole series now.
In my own documentary making, I caught a mouse today. He's been hanging out under the receptionist's desk lately and as I walked in the door I was told. So, being the experienced mouse catcher that I am, I cornered him, and chased him into a box. I let him go outside in a field, where I'm sure he'll live happily ever after.
Saturday, December 09, 2006 22:36:12
finnegan's dad writes:
...or make some fox, cat, or hawk a nice "happy" meal. |
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| | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 08:28:39 |
Error, ../../images/kramer.jpg not found The media is all buzzing about Michael Richards and his racist ranting. Watch the video (due to the offencive nature of the clip, you'll need a YouTube account)
I think racism and religion have become the last real taboos. If he had attacked their sexuality like most comedians do to hecklers, no one would have said anything. I think the last show I was at a young woman who wouldn't shut her pie whole was called something along the lines of an "irritating twat" and no one booed and left the room because of that. Most people were just shocked and so was the young woman who proceeded to shut up and let the comedian perform.
That is one thing that I've learned over the years, if you're going to a comedy show; speak only when spoken to, and even then you may be the target of a few jokes. If you speak out of turn, the jokes turn ugly. In Michael Richards' case, I think he was a little too stressed that night and went down the wrong path with his attack.
I'm not sure if any studios would touch him now. Like one of the YouTube comments says, "I hope he has enough money to retire." |
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