This morning the google maps site added real-time traffic data to their maps. Until now, this was something that was only available using the mobile client (ie. cell phones). I had used it a few times when we were stuck in traffic jams around town just to see what the skinny was up ahead and [...]

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Saturday was my birthday, and as the saying goes I’m another day older and deeper in debt. That didn’t stop me from taking 27 out and bringing 28 in with a bang Friday night…
The evening began with some pre-drinking over at the Brooklyn lofts by old Tiger Stadium. By 11:30 or so we finally made [...]

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Good thing I run this on all of my machines as well. See Christa, marrying a geek has it’s benefits…
SETI@home is a distributed processing client from UC Berkeley that installs on the volunteers’ home computers and harnesses their processing power in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So far nothing noteworthy has comeout [...]

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I had to deal with an issue yesterday of how to get a very computer illiterate person in my workplace setup to be able to FTP files to another company who is doing work for us. While I would not normally recommend anyone to use the built-in FTP functionality of Internet Explorer, at the time [...]

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Over the past 2 weeks or so since the official long awaited (read: massively delayed) launch of Microsoft’s new flagship OS, Windows Vista, I’ve noticed an influx of questions at work regarding the “should I upgrade” question.
To save time & effort here is the short answer: don’t do it.
The only “wow” that “starts now” (their [...]

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I made C an awesome belated Vday dinner last night. If anyone is interested here’s how i did it.
2 top sirloin steaks (~1lb)
2 Tbsp olive oil
salt
pepper
celery salt
parsley
1/4c red wine***
1 large shallot
1 Tbsp butter
Heat a cast iron pan on medium high & add 2 turns of the pan of olive oil (~2 Tbsp). Oil [...]

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I was cruising around the internets today looking at Lost promos & trailers out of boredom at work, and stumbled across a gem.
Apparently if you play the brainwashing scene backwards it reveals a subliminal message. This could possibly be a big overall plot clue. Or not. Either way, it’s freekin’ creepy!

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The weekend is over and we’re both back in the US. The cottage was a fantabulous success for me, as was Brantford for Christa. Monty was happy to be back home after spending the weekend with Christa’s parents, and Bailey was just happy to see people back in the house again after hanging [...]

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Christa and I are both having a great white north weekend, albeit in separate parts of Ontario.
Christa will be back in the old ‘hood of Brantford catching up with all those folk.
I’ll be hamming it up further down the 401 with some friends from Ottawa & Toronto who all get together a few times [...]

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After starting the new year off with a bang of blogging, I kind of fell apart towards the end of January and got lazy again. Nothing overly exciting happened the past few days so I just didn’t feel like writing anything.
So sue me.
Friday night went over to a friend’s house in Royal Oak & made [...]

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