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US Customs is on Crack Wednesday, February 27, 2008 21:40:10 I went down to West Palm Beach to visit Brianne and I obviously set off some alarms. Something about an IT guy going to visit his fiancée just sounds so very unbelievable... IT guys can’t have fiancées, that would be preposterous. Also, the fact that she’s working down there, that’s just far too confusing, we better take him aside and interrogate him because it is highly suspicious. You know, I thought the whole bulking up of the borders is supposed to protect Americans from mean people, I don't understand why they find me so threatening, if you've ever met me, you'd know exactly what I’m talking about. So yeah, they hauled me aside, asked me questions in the little room and even tried to call Brianne to make sure she was real. They wanted to know what her boss does and why he does it and blah blah blah. Talk about a rewarding career pissing people off. Anyway, I'm flying right now, the sun above the clouds is a marvellous thing. Watching The Big Lewbowksi on my iPod, great little device, don’t leave home without it. I wrote this on the plane down here last week but totally forgot to post it when I got here. I think I'm going to ship as many of my belongings back to myself as possible so I don't have to cross the border with them, less suspicion the better.

Not Amish... on a Mission Wednesday, February 13, 2008 21:20:03 Over the last two days, two people have asked me if I've gone Amish and that's why I've got my beard on. Once people know that I'm on the March Mutton Chop Mission, they're much more supportive of the mission... once they know that such a mission exists. This St. Patrick's Day is going to be legen... PS: On a side note, there are others out there operating Mission Mustache March, so no matter what your beliefs, you better believe that March is a month which men devote to various facial changes.

Tobogogganing Sunday, December 2, 2007 17:53:44 Since we had some lovely snowfall today, after I dropped Brianne off for work, I got home and Sean, Jayme and I went tobogganing. The logic there was that we had to enjoy the snow while it was around. It had already started misting out and it really hasn't stopped all day. Here's some pictures of our antics...

Can't Help The Wiki Thursday, November 22, 2007 18:04:42 Ever tried to "help out" at Wikipedia? I was playing around with that today and it seems that it's a matter of speed. The frequency in which their recently updated page changes is amazing and by the time you've followed an edit, realized it's vandalism and have pressed the revert button (with the TWINKLE scripts for extra speed), someone's already undone what you were going to undo. As much as I'd like to help thwart vandals, I just don't think I have the patience to get to something like that. All I was able to do properly was correct some poor wiki styling in the Bee Gees article... better than nothing I guess. Little Gemological Diffs "I can see a strong ba in there..." Who says? Where do clouds come from?

Pushing Daisies is Pushing Awesome! Saturday, November 17, 2007 20:23:38 Brianne and I are catching up on some missed Pushing Daisies and we're watching the one where they fix up a pigeon. One of the greatest parts of the whole episode is where they quote They Might Be Giants from the Flood album; Build a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul and then after the commercial, they come back singing their own rendition of it. Very, very awesome. Unfortunately, once again I'm the only one who got the reference and I'm the only one who thought it was awesome. Maybe I need to build my own little birdhouse. Pushing Daisies Birdhouse in your Soul They Might Be Giants Birdhouse in your Soul

Henry Earl is awesome Friday, November 16, 2007 06:43:16 I couldn't remember this guy's name. I knew there was a song and I knew there was a few fan sites but I couldn't remember his name, so how do I find him. I tried searching for variations of "in and out of jail" and "Pennsylvania jail willy" (I thought his name was willy for a while there.) Then I searched for "jail status" and found What's up with Henry Earl. Google's awesome like that, it's bulimic... it can read minds. So anyway, the song I was looking for is right here and it's still just as catchy as the first time I laid my ears on it. The Dangels have made a simple little song which tells you all about how she wants to be Henry Earl's girl. Unfortunately the official fan site is gone. I guess they aren't fans anymore.

Where's My Dog? Thursday, November 15, 2007 20:06:02 Have you seen my dog? Apparently she's been kidnapped... by the neighbours. And she's only worth $39.26 which has to be the most random ransom ever. I think Cricket's worth it though so I guess we'll have to pay. Anyone know anyone who can help us with a sting operation?

Dell listens... slowly Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:08:11 I was just flipping through the hourly Dell flyer they send me and I noticed something interesting. On page 3, they made a point of saying; Every VOSTRO comes complete with: No trial software. Customers said they hated trial software, so we took it away. VOSTRO PCs come without annoying trial software. You only get what you choose. Finally! You know there are actually programs out there to de-Dell your computer like PC De-Crapifier which only exist because this has been such a huge problem for years. Just Google remove dell software and you'll get 8.7 million matches. It amazes me that it's taken them this long to react to that much backlash to the crap, but I guess they must be flushing some serious kickbacks away. Norton and the like will have to flog their wares elsewhere I guess. Personally I'm of the opinion that anything you need to have on a computer you can get for free. For example... You need virus protection, so you get AVG Free from Grisoft. You need word processor, spreadsheet, etc.. so you get OpenOffice or use Google Docs & Spreadsheets online. You need email and a web browser, so pick up Thunderbird and Firefox or use Gmail with Firefox or now you can use Gmail with Thunderbird via IMAP. You already spent your cash on a fancy PC, view a little advertising and support the open source community for your ware.

This weekend was Legen... wait for it Monday, November 12, 2007 22:10:36 So I had a very nice weekend. You know how everyone's going on all the time about how they relax on the weekend and stuff. Well usually I do my best to do so too but I'll do things like clean or fly plane so I don't feel like I did nothing, I feel like I did something. This weekend was like those old camping weekends of yore. Adrienne's Phil invited me to come up to his uncle Bill's cottage with his fishing buddies Newfie Jamie, Scott and Steve. I packed my gear up and drove up here. Buckskin Lake So I caught my first rainbow trout right off the dock with a sinker and a worm. Pretty awesome idn't it? My Rainbow Trout Jamie also taught us the most brilliant trout frying method ever. Once you've cleaned the fishes, roll them in flour to absorb any excess slime. Start heating up a buncha butter in the frying pan and then pitch the fish in. Once they start to sizzle a little bit add some water to a little less than half way up the fish. This will keep them nice and moist. Keep a close eye on them and flip once you feel it's time. On the second side, you may want to cover the pan to keep the top warm and moist. Uncover and eat 'em up! Our cleaned catch Frying fishes ...dary!

Upgraded to Firefox 3.0 Alpha Tuesday, November 6, 2007 11:04:13 I've been having a weird problem with Firefox lately, I've been told it's some kind of memory leak which is causing it to chew up massive amounts of RAM and I wouldn't care except as the day goes on it's taking more and more time for me to open a new tab, which I do constantly. I read somewhere that someone worked around this by using Firefox 3.0 which is still in the alpha stage. I figured, worst-case scenario I have to re-install the old version. So I installed the new one from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/ and my problem was instantly solved. They've changed the database that stores the history and stuff to use SQLite so the list is populated a whole lot quicker when you start typing in a URL. One feature that I really like is that when you start typing something into the address bar, it shows you the most visited URL that matches the text you type. So I was accessing my private wiki at http://blah.blah.com/wiki and now I just go to the location bar and type in wiki and then press the down arrow and press enter to get there. It's pretty sweet. My dictionaries and plugins weren't working because they weren't designed for this version so I asked online so see if I could replace them or something and someone told me to go to about:config and then create two boolean values; extensions.checkCompatibility and extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set them both to false. Once I'd done that, my Canadian English dictionary for spell checking and the Firebug plugin both worked after restarting Firefox. Here's hoping that living on the bleeding edge is all it's cracked up to be.

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