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Canadian women’s hockey team strikes gold! Make that a hat-trick!

02.25.2010
Sports

The Canadian women’s hockey team has won gold three olympics in a row, by beating the USA team 2-0. Congrats ladies!

The Canadian flag is raised as the women's team strikes gold. Again.

The team posing for a victory photo

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Apple Tablet (iSlate?) leak via Sports Illustrated?

01.27.2010
News

Is this perhaps the worst leak out there? There’s a video on YouTube with what appears to be an Apple Tablet, despite the name on the top of it as TimeInc.

Perhaps this is one of the video demos from today’s Apple release?

You be the judge!

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2009 website in review

01.27.2010
News

I’ve been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks, and I’m just getting around to it.

I did something interesting with my website. I took a look at my stats, and created a neat-looking word cloud, based on the keywords that people enter in search engines to get to my website.

It’s quite interesting to see.

dmpP website word cloud for 2009

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Boxing day starts today?

12.24.2009
News, Rants, Technology

As in the past, BestBuy Canada and FutureShop are starting their Boxing Day sales tonight at 8 p.m. EST.

Last year there was a serious flaw. Their websites, and I’m presuming their servers, were overloaded, slow, and crashed. It was an epic failure then, and I bet there are a lot of people who are hesitant to take part this year for fear that their abilities to just browse the site, let alone place items in their cart and place their orders.

Hopefully the BB and FS IT folks have learned from this, and are ramping up for tonight.

There’s a message on the BB and FS “view cart” pages that says all carts will be cleared to allow fair access for all customers. Take a look at the screen captures:

BestBuy view cart screen shot from 2009-12-24 at 2.45.49 PM

FutureShop view cart screen shot 2009-12-24 at 2.46.08 PM

What’s interesting is that there’s a partial failure. When you click on the image with the text explaining the cleared carts on the BestBuy site, it takes you to their homepage. When you click on the one on the FutureShop site, it takes you to http://localhost/ Clearly someone’s brain is already on vacation. Why does the image need to click through to anything anyways? What’s even stranger, is that the FS site is pulling it in with jQuery and iFrames. Why?

Code view from FutureShop website - screen shot 2009-12-24 at 2.56.09 PM

Also, according to the FS twitter account, the site is going to be closed at 3 to 6 p.m. EST and it will be open from 6 to 8 p.m. EST to browse before the sale starts. I wonder why they’re doing this? I don’t think it’s going to build up the anticipation. The flyers were leaked about 4 days ago. There isn’t anything that I’m hoping to score from FS. There are a couple of things I’m looking to get from BestBuy though.

Here’s my shopping list for this season:

2x 1.5TB drives – brand A
2x 1.5TB drives – brand B
2x NAS RAID array’s
2x 8GB SDHC class 6 cards
1x inexpensive laser printer – this isn’t for me

That’s it. Nothing all that special. HDD’s are on sale at NewEgg and TigerDirect, so I’m likely going to get them from there. Having said that, their prices are “Boxing week”, so I have plenty of time to get them.

I’ll let you all know how “well” I did once all the purchases are done.

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The holidays are upon us

12.24.2009
News

The end of 2009 is on it’s way, and in a few days we will bring in the new year.

2009 was a good year, and 2010 looks promising.

I want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very happy and healthy holiday season, regardless of what you celebrate, and happy new year.

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Mac “swirly ball of death” seen on Family Guy

11.22.2009
Play, Videos

Thought this was just hilarious. There was a brief pause in the newest episode of Family Guy where the “swirly ball of death” was seen.

Just great…

Swirly ball of death on Family Guy

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Finally, the mecca of multiple standalone Internet Explorer versions

11.20.2009
Technology

I’ve finally found a multiple IE installer.

It lets you run versions 1.0, 1.5, 2.01, 3.0, 4.01, 5.01, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0

Kudos to the developer.

More details can be found at: Final Builds Site – IE Collection

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Homer Simpson guest appearance on Bones Nov 11

11.15.2009
Play

I’m finally getting around to watching this weeks PVR recordings, and I’ve seems Homer make his debut on Bones.

Homer Simpson x-ray on Bones

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Leafs lose again. David isn’t shaving.

10.13.2009
Rants, Sports

As of this evening, the Toronto Maple Leafs (err.. Laughs) are at the bottom of the NHL with a 0-6 record to start off the 2009 season.

I know the real reason why the Leafs franchise was against moving an NHL team to Hamilton. They were worried that a new team would win the Stanley Cup before them!

Leafs, you’re my home team. I love you guys. I’ve paid a lot of money in the past for seats to the games. But I’m losing faith in you.

I’ve decided that I’m going to have a rally-beard. I’m not going to shave until the Leafs win 1 game in the regular season. I haven’t shaved since October 8. I guess the beard is better than what some people do during playoffs – not changing or washing their socks or shirts – gross AND stinky!

Anyways, if anyone wants to see me clean shaven, it looks like it’s going to be in a few weeks at this rate!

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Lunchtime antics

08.28.2009
work

Colin and Hayley will be leaving our department to continue their education. At their farewell lunch today some of my colleagues decided to have a contest…

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2009 baseball season closer

08.20.2009
Sports

So the 2009 baseball season has come to a close this evening. This year was filled with a lot of drama, many losses, arguments, people quitting, and more losses.

I would say the biggest problem lies with personality conflicts, and those disturbances between just a couple of players is what brought down the moral across the board.

As for me, I feel that I did as well as I could have. I got many RBI’s, lots of hits, and made many great plays.

I finished off the season going 4 for 5, and bringing in 5 RBI’s. My last at bat I pounded the ball over the outfielder and made it to the fence – 2 RBI’s and a standing double.

So as the story goes, I’m now a free agent, and I’m being scouted by 2 other leagues. 1 is in Thornhill, and the other in Toronto.

I’ll have to weigh the options, and make my decision fairly soon. At the moment, I’m leaning towards the Thornhill league – but who knows..

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Playoffs round 2, game 1

08.09.2009
Sports

He shoots, he scores!

‘Green Machine’ won their first game of the second round by a massive 9-4 victory. I had a great goal – picked up the puck on a drop-pass, held it and slapped it in the top corner, from 25-ft out and through a crowd of 8 players. I also managed to get two assists. Go #9!

Congrats team, and on to game 2 next week.

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