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| Next Year's Superbowl Might Be Cooler for Rich Canadians | Wednesday, February 7, 2007 16:29:16 |
According to this article on Digital Home's site the CRTC is putting it's foot down on HD signal substitutions. During the Superbowl on Sunday Global television substituted some of its HD feed for standard definition feed because it was theirs instead of CBS'. So the poor shmoes who are paying extra for high definition got to watch some ugly standard definition and the CRTC says no more. I think that's pretty fair. I've always wanted to be able to watch the 2.5 million dollar 30 second commercials anyway. Maybe for next year I'll get an HD subscription and an HD card for my MythTV system. Hardly seems worth it for one day, I need the broadcasters to up their ante when it comes to their shows for me to subscribe. Maybe in a couple of years... |
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| Drop Your Weapon! It's too cold! | Tuesday, February 6, 2007 14:26:42 |
This cold snap sucks. Word from the weather gurus is that it's going to last for at least another seven days. I think my new location at the office could have contributed to this cold that I have that just won't go away. I'm around the corner from the office so I have to go outside and then back in again to interact with co-workers, get coffee and mail and etc... I'm making a conscious effort to get more sleep this week, so hopefully that will pay off and I can be operating without this crutch before the weekend. I think it was last year that we had about the same amount of cold and it only lasted for a couple of weeks then it was all back to normal again. I can deal with that, too much cold isn't pleasant, but lots of snow is.
On a completely unrelated topic; have you been watching 24? This is the first season which I've been watching as it happens. I watched seasons 2 through 5 over the summer and fall to catch up for this one and I was way too excited for this. I think the season started off okay, but now it's been two weeks in a row with very little action and far too much drama with Jack's family. I'm hoping that it has a point to the plot and that a whole lot more action happens in the next few episodes.
And yet another completely unrelated topic; one of my customers ordered an IP camera so I've been playing with it so that I know all of the ins and outs with it, and so far I'm quite impressed. The camera's made by a company called 4XEM and they have quite the wide variety of affordable IP cameras. They're fairly plug and play too, they come with the software to run up to 16 cameras into one system and record all of their footage. Motion detection, frame rates and they even have audio. Pretty funky stuff. |
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| Four Days of the Week | Friday, February 2, 2007 10:48:28 |
 You know, you people are obsessed. Friday is just another day of the week. It's just like the hype over Christmas or New Years. Sure, you're going to get silly, but it's just another day of the week. If it were up to me, everyone would be excited about every day. No exceptions. I guess that's not a really acceptable want because there are highs and lows and you wouldn't know what a high was if there wasn't a low. Days of the week just don't mean too much to me though. If I'm going to get something done, I'll just make time to do it, otherwise it won't ever get done. So if I want to get to the gym, I'll go at lunch because that's the best time for me. It may mean I have to spend a little longer at the office, but overall, I'll feel better because I went. There is one song about the days of the week that I like though...The Durex Hump Day Anthem
Hump Day oh Hump Day you are what we seek
Right smack dab there in the middle of the week
Single or Married
at the game or Ballet
Durex offers us sex on this glorious... day.
Thursdays are nice and Fridays don't suck
But Wednesday's the day on which we should fuck! |
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| Global Warming | Thursday, January 18, 2007 15:29:00 |
I just went outside to pitch a dead UPS and I noticed that the ice from the roof of the greenhouse was melting and making a cool and massive icicle on the side of the building. I pushed on it and then looked up to see that it was coming away from the building already, so I figured I'd better stand back and get a picture of it before it falls, then I heard it creak so I switched to video mode on my camera and this is what I caught...
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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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